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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). Except in rare instances, such as with government agencies, it’s probably best to avoid comp time altogether to be safe.

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Office refurbishments rise to all time high in London

Workplace Insight

This is undoubtedly a vote of confidence in London after the intense disruption of the pandemic, disturbance to supply chains and rising inflation experienced over the past year.” and new construction is starting across 50 schemes. Additional figures from the research showed: Just over a third of space under construction – 5.3

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6 Ways to Improve Employee Mental Health

Zevo Health

Mental stress policies within the construction industry are still sketchy, but it’s urgent to realize that work-related ill health in construction is worse than it seems. UK Government statistics put the economic contribution of the sector’s 2.4 Any of these elements has immense power to undermine mental health.

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The UK workplace sector reacts to the Spring Budget 2023

Workplace Insight

UKGBC members across the UK continue to set an ambitious pace for transforming their business models for net zero carbon growth – the Government must use its forthcoming response to Mission Zero and the updated Net Zero Strategy to set out a detailed and credible delivery plan to achieve net zero by 2050.”

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Accounting for Mental Disorder: Time for a Paradigm Shift

Mad in America

DNA is the basis for heredity and for constructing the body’s proteins. An important lesson of the pandemic is that physical illness and mental disorder are governed by different rules and they require different solutions. Laboratory studies provided the scientific basis for the development of a vaccine. Proteins keep us alive.

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Yuesheng Group Offices – Xingtai

Office Snapshots

Yuesheng·Yanyuan, nestled around an artificial lake, leverages the vistas from Xingtai East Station and the new district, offering a vibrant, intelligent, and multidimensionally interconnected super-space supply station.

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London Real Estate Forum makes the right noises, but will be judged on action

Workplace Insight

This prompted some discussion of the ‘failure of the machinery of [central] government’ and the arguments for some form of devolution. Collaboration, not just between building occupiers and owners but extended to the whole built environment supply chain was seen as key to enhancing sustainability and productivity.