Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

Prudence says employers should start planning now in case the virus starts spreading in the U.S. Be prepared to implement remote or other work arrangements to reduce personal contact. Employers can cut the risk of workplace infection by providing air ventilation and purifying systems. Consider limiting work travel.

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Employee Benefits

JANUARY 24, 2022

A survey of UK business owners, chief executives and senior managers published by HR software firm CIPHR in August 2021 found that while two-thirds (68%) have given all or most of their staff the option to work remotely, the same proportion are thinking about reducing the pay of employees that wish to work from home permanently.

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Employee Benefits

MARCH 8, 2023

The number of people working flexibly has increased drastically since the pandemic; however, as we move on from that, it seems more employers are asking staff to return to workplaces on a regular basis. Many employees have become reliant on not having to travel into work, or deal with the costs associated with it.

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HR Digest

APRIL 12, 2021

If a company has a reputation of being a bad paymaster, not keeping its promises, working people overtime, then the attrition rate is going to be very high. According to the annual benefits survey of 2019 by The Society for Human Resource Management, 34 percent of employers offer paid maternity leave to women.

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Hppy

JANUARY 25, 2022

As the coronavirus pandemic continues to unfold in 2022 it’s expected that employment laws will evolve according to the situation. Many employers will be facing legal questions as they adapt their policies to meet the requirements of the “new normal”. Federal Contractors Employment Laws. Booster Shots in 2022.

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Best Money Moves

MAY 28, 2019

Employers can leverage this report to better understand how to attract, motivate and retain hourly workers.”. Hourly Workers Want Work-Life Balance. Close to 80 percent of hourly workers agreed that work-life balance was necessary for job satisfaction. Hourly Workers Want to Find Meaning in Work.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 19, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, employers must have an emergency plan to quickly adapt to changes. Without proper risk management, employers can be caught off-guard – with catastrophic consequences. A key resource for employers is Ready.gov , a government website focused on emergency preparedness and planning.

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cipHR

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Tax codes can, and do, change, particularly if there’s been a change of personal circumstances, such as people getting married, claiming taxable state benefits, or working from home. Some employers also top these payments up. Variable payments. It’s still important that people check these details closely though.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 7, 2020

Ideally, all employers would have had telecommuting agreements drafted long before the coronavirus came along and forced us into a new way of thinking about where and how work must get done. A disclaimer explaining that this is not a contractual agreement that obligates the employer to continue offering work-from-home as an option.

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Business Management Daily

JULY 4, 2022

During the pandemic, many businesses allowed their employees to work from home as a matter of safety. Now, remote work has become the norm. However, it can be tough to navigate the switch from a compliance perspective, particularly when it comes to out-of-state remote staff members. Employment classification.

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HR Digest

APRIL 3, 2020

As Coronavirus cases are rising day by day, the employers are obligated to allow employees to work from home and extend services as well as to oversee legal requirements protecting workers and employees. Some of the workplace compliances to follow effectively during the work from home situation include -.

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Business Management Daily

JULY 27, 2021

Employment laws vary by state, and even sometimes by city or county. Some employment laws and regulations vary based on the size of your company. For example, FMLA covers employers with 50 or more employees within 75 miles, so you’ll need to know how many employees you have at each location. At-will employment disclaimer.

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Hppy

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

However, employers are often worried that flexibility or remote work will tank productivity and efficiency. Remote workers can increase total productivity up to 77% , even when they only work from home a few days a month. However, working from home isn’t the only way to capitalize on a better work-life balance.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 14, 2020

Employers may see increased productivity and reduced costs when they allow a remote work option. Without clear rules, working from home may reduce rather than enhance productivity. Plus, creating a telecommute option opens the door to Americans with Disability Act (ADA) accommodation requests to work at home.

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 2, 2021

The Fair Labor Standards Act ( FLSA ), a depression-era law, governs how employers pay hourly workers. Neither of these laws was drafted with the internet, working from home, or a global pandemic in mind. The FLSA ensures workers are paid for time spent working. Work can’t be “volunteered.”

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Business Management Daily

MARCH 31, 2020

So if you send them home and they’re not working, you don’t have to pay them. If nonexempts are working from home, you need a way to track their time. Telecommuting is tricky since employees’ managers aren’t around to keep an eye on their working time. What about reducing their work hours and weekly pay?

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Employee Benefits

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Kate Palmer, HR advice and consultancy director at Peninsula, added: “This is welcome news for employers and employees alike who have faced significant disruption as a result of the strike action. Employers should still work with employees who rely on the trains to get to work on remaining strike days.

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Business Management Daily

JUNE 30, 2021

Updating the handbook annually will remind the leadership team to review new employment laws that may apply to your business and staff. At-will employment disclaimer. If your business is in a state that allows at-will employment, which almost all of them do to at least some extent, you’ll want to include a section on this.

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Business Management Daily

OCTOBER 6, 2023

You can adjust parents’ (or any employees’) work schedules to this new normal with no loss of pay, but if they’re nonexempt and can’t work from home, you must also consider your obligation to pay overtime if they end up working longer than 40 hours in a week.

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Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

He discovered that working more only resulted in a lesser improvement in productivity. It mandated that all employees are working more than 44 hours per week be paid overtime. Two years later, they changed the law to make the work week 40 hours long. The 40 hour work week eventually became law in the US.

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COMPackage

AUGUST 9, 2022

When someone leaves the company, rather than hiring someone new, they’ll simply give that person’s responsibilities to another employee: more work and more responsibility, but without the corresponding promotion or salary increase. Some employers abuse their authority. many companies switched to work-from-home models.

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Business Management Daily

JANUARY 12, 2022

The FLSA has four simple rules for paying nonexempts : You must pay nonexempts for every hour they work, even if they haven’t sought permission to work. Collaterally, once you have paid them, you can discipline them for not seeking said permission to work from home. The key is not performing any work from home.

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Hppy

JUNE 11, 2021

Working overtime. From the above causes, it is clear that employee burnout mainly rises not from the employees but the defectiveness of your management structure. Because of the pandemic, more staff work from home. That means that 3% of your workers are absent on a typical working day.

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Employee Benefits

JULY 7, 2023

More than nine in 10 (94%) employees rate working from home as the most important benefit to them because it increases their productivity and happiness, according to research by Business Name Generator. However, more than one-third (37%) said their employer is open to hearing about what benefits its employees would like to see.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 31, 2020

But employers have to structure these potential new relationships just right to avoid lawsuits and agency second-guessing. During shutdowns, many employers laid-off workers when demand fell. Employers and employees widely expected that once governors allowed non-essential businesses to reopen, workers would be back in the office.

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Business Management Daily

AUGUST 11, 2022

If you don’t respect that limit, you’ll end up with burnout and feel like you can’t fathom another day of work. Not all employers understand this. For toxic employers, it results in knowingly pushing teams beyond their capacity by looking on the bright side or talking down to them. Employees come to work for money, not pizza.

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Business Management Daily

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The FFCRA’s paid sick leave provisions (and the tax credits used to reimburse employers for providing it) apply through the end of the year. Nonexempt employees who can’t work because they have regular, seasonal influenza don’t qualify for paid leave under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Flu rules for nonexempts. Flu rules for exempts.

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HR Digest

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Learning and Development teams of companies are working overtime to figure out ways to keep the organizations functioning in these difficult times. Working with a hybrid workforce. Companies are very aware of their brand image as employers. Learn how to support colleagues and be flexible with them to enable success.

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cipHR

MAY 26, 2016

The only time it's acceptable to mention time off is if you already have a holiday (or important event) booked that you feel the employer needs to know about. Asking this question will immediately raise concerns and probably eliminate you from the list of applicants who progress in the recruitment process. Can I work from home?

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PeopleStrategy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Let’s get into these areas that deserve another look before the new year starts: health savings accounts, overtime, retirement, remote employment, and the Affordable Care Act. Remote Employee Involuntary Terminations Now we strike a big shift from retirement to unfortunate situations of terminating employment.

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Business Management Daily

APRIL 3, 2020

Amid “shelter in place” and “work from home” orders, employers have had to scramble to adjust to the coronavirus reality. Depending on the scope of the layoffs, the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act (WARN) requires covered employers to give affected workers 60 days advanced notice.

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Business Management Daily

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Must we factor internet allowances into non- exempt employees ‘ overtime calculations? Under final regulations issued in December 2019 , reimbursements to non-exempts for their substantiated business expenses can be excluded from their regular rate calculation when you’re figuring their overtime rate. It depends.

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Hppy

JULY 9, 2021

It means that those tasks that employees can do from home, let them. Working from home also saves company resources and expenses since it cuts down unnecessary costs. Employees can also take care of their health better when they are at home trying to meet company deadlines.

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Empuls

MARCH 24, 2022

💼 Job hunting: If an employee is unsatisfied with the current job (for different reasons), they may seek other employment opportunities, missing work to attend job interviews. 📅 Inflexible schedules: Organizations that do not allow employees to work from home occasionally tend to see a high absenteeism rate.

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Business Management Daily

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

The problem with processing payroll when employees are working from home is employees: Their home computers aren’t as secure as their work computers and their typical, normal questions take up way too much of your time. Verifying employment. Technology can be your friend, here. RPA and AI.

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Scenario #1—compensable meal breaks Alison lives in Chicago and works for a New Jersey employer at a co-working space. Scenario #2—non-compensable personal time Barrie works from home. Her employer agrees to allow her to set her own schedule. For FMLA purposes, an employee’s home isn’t a workplace.

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Insperity

DECEMBER 19, 2017

Your culture may scare off new moms who want to come back to work but need the understanding that frequent overtime is not possible. A new parent needs empathy from their manager and coworkers. After all, chances are, your receptionist can’t work from home. Plan the before, during and after.

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