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Business owner beware: FLSA compliance and personal liability

Insperity

In fact, when considering lawsuits about back wages, the federal government has the authority to deem a business owner an “employer” if certain criteria are present under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). And if you think insurance can shield you from such expenses, think again. Staying compliant.

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Tracking employee health metrics: Great idea or big mistake?

Insperity

Some experts contend this data may boost a company’s bottom line , and many insurance providers are promising lower health care premiums in exchange for it. Since tracking employee health information is a fairly recent phenomenon, there is little legislation governing it. What’s possible? Financial benefits.

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Appetite for hybrid working shows no sign of letting up at large firms

Workplace Insight

The report, “ Global Hiring Activity Trends & Signals – Q3 2023 ,” claims that sectors such as construction, insurance, banking & payments, technology and communications, and pharmaceuticals posted significant hybrid job roles during the third quarter (Q3) of 2023.

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Tips and Resources to Scale Your Small Business

Success

When Logan Shinholser, owner and CEO of the Contractor Growth Network in Charlotte, North Carolina, graduated from college in 2014, he started providing marketing services for his father’s pond construction, repair and cleaning business in Maryland. “I

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

Mental health care is under the control of powerful entities: the profession of psychiatry, drug companies, NIMH, primary care doctors, and insurance companies. DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. In short, ten years ago the WHO called for a paradigm shift in mental health care.

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Britain is no longer a nation of shopkeepers, but it is divided by the work we do

Workplace Insight

Yorkshire and the Humber Yorkshire and the Humber is home to a higher than average share of pensions and insurance clerks and assistants. The region also has a high share (around three times the UK average) of employees in the welding trades, elementary construction occupations n.e.c, times the UK average. times the UK average).

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am I the toxic complainer, I don’t want to hire an anti-vaxxer, and more

Ask a Manager

But there’s a point where chronic complaining stops being constructive (especially if it’s in a context where nothing actionable is happening). Sometimes complaining about the same things over and over can make you more unhappy than you’d be otherwise, because it keeps you mired in whatever’s bothering you and feeds your frustration.