Q. I’ve heard conflicting answers: Is it legal for our company to pay our hourly employees comp time instead of paying time-and-a-half for overtime worked?
Q. We plan to give gasoline gift cards to employees as incentives for picking up additional shifts. Are these cards taxable? Can we, the employer, simply pay the...
Some temp employees have tried to argue that they should be paid immediately for their work as soon as they finish a particular assignment—and not have to wait...
Putting paychecks (or pay stubs) in employees' hands is a basic HR chore: No glory, but it must be done right. What's the best way to do it? HR specialists around the...
Question: “I need help in revising our current policy on continuation of medical insurance during the following cases: temporary layoff, permanent layoff,...
Q. We don’t allow our employees to punch the time clock more than seven minutes early or clock out more than seven minutes late. How do we round up or down when...
Question: “Does anyone have a policy on start/end work times for jobs that don’t require employees to punch time clocks? We polled the staff as to when...
The Container Store has an entirely paperless payroll department. The transition to a paperless system began five years ago when the Texas-based company adopted new...
Question: “In my 30-year career, I’ve never heard of a company requiring that holiday time be accrued, i.e., each pay period an employee accrues the time,...
Q. We’ve repeatedly warned a part-time employee about clocking in earlier than he’s supposed to—sometimes more than an hour early. We know that we have...
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the California Labor Code both require employers to keep meticulous records to prove employees are properly compensated. Paper...
The Michigan Civil Service Commission voted 3-1 in December to allow state workers to have political donations deducted from their paychecks, despite warnings from the...
If you are responsible for approving time sheets or signing off on any alterations of the reported hours worked by employees, be warned. It’s not just your...
Nothing upsets employees more than opening their pay envelopes and discovering their checks are for less money than they expected. But errors do happen. When they do,...
Q. Is it permissible to dock pay for someone who clocks in late? We pay the employee for actual hours worked to the nearest quarter hour, but we also dock tardy...
Q. An employee went on FMLA leave, but we failed to specify the method in which he would pay his share of health insurance premiums. It’s now three months later,...
Employees' typical home-to-work commutes are not compensable time, and that doesn't change just because employees meet up at a designated place and take a car pool or...
Here's a reason to be extra careful about what you say to employees regarding their pay: The Pennsylvania Wage Payment and Collection Law (WPCL) gives employees a way to...
Issue: The legal and financial hazards of an improperly programmed time clock. Risk: Thousands in back pay and government penalties, in addition to unwanted publicity. ...
Issue: Should you provide notice about commission-formula changes that could alter employees' pay? Risk: If you rework pay formulas behind employees' backs, you could...
