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At the 2025 HR Specialist Summit, Carrie Hoffman, labor and employment partner at Foley & Lardner LLP, reminded attendees that the Fair Labor Standards Act doesn’t grant employers much leeway. Exemptions are narrowly construed, the burden of proof is on the company and even small oversights can snowball into class claims.
Read MoreWe have an employee placed on unpaid suspension for failure to complete background-check requirements. They are working on completion, but they could be off one to two weeks. I’m wondering which of these options would be best practice.
Read MoreEmployees are motivated to ask for raises , but HR professionals and managers must balance requests against realistic budgets and internal equity. There are various factors to keep in mind.
Read MoreThe One Big Beautiful Bill Act allows employees to deduct $25,000 of tips on their 1040s through 2028. The principal question the proposed regs must answer will be: How can employees be prevented from reclassifying taxable wages as deductible tips?
Read MoreDo employers need to pay nursing mothers during the breaks they take to pump?
Read MoreThe Department of Labor’s delayed spring 2025 regulatory agenda includes a separate item on long-term regulatory plans, which includes working on overtime rules.
Read MoreWhen retail managers you classify as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime provisions end up doing the bulk of the work in the store, you may have a misclassification problem.
Read MoreCompliance priorities tell us more than where HR’s attention is focused—they reveal where organizations feel most vulnerable. Brightmine’s State of Legal Compliance and Employment Law 2025 Report highlights the laws that dominate HR’s compliance agenda, and where attention may not match the real risks.
Read MoreStates across the U.S. continue to pass pay-transparency laws. But the U.S. Pay Transparency Index 2025 from beqom, a compensation management platform, reveals that even where laws are strict, compliance lags.
Read MoreBy now, you likely have heard about the Trump administration’s renewal and expansion of the Payroll Audit Independent Determination program. Employers should know that there is another DOL-sanctioned option that’s especially useful if they’re not quite sure that what they have done is a violation.
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