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Business owner beware: FLSA compliance and personal liability

Insperity

The nuances between what legally constitutes a person and an employer aren’t always clear-cut when it comes to FLSA compliance. Generally, offering comp (compensatory) time in lieu of paying overtime is not legal for private employers. I build extra pay into employees’ salaries to make up for any overtime. Staying compliant.

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my company plans to absorb any government stimulus checks that employees receive for themselves

Ask a Manager

government sends us the proposed stimulus checks due to Covid 19, they plan to absorb the money we receive by cutting our hours to reflect that amount. Is this legal? Presumably it will be a sacrifice shouldered by lower level corporate employees, since executives likely make too much money to qualify for the government checks.

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Why Volunteering in Your Community is Important

Success

Yet most charitable organizations are smaller and local, including: Food banks, soup kitchens and homeless shelters Programs for veterans and their families Education and youth programs Environmental conservation groups Animal welfare organizations These local groups are often underfunded and understaffed. Volunteering helps the organization.

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Tracking employee health metrics: Great idea or big mistake?

Insperity

Since tracking employee health information is a fairly recent phenomenon, there is little legislation governing it. If you sponsor a group health plan, and your company is considering collecting health information, first seek legal counsel from an attorney well versed in employee benefit law. What’s possible? Choose carefully.

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In Palm Beach, farmworkers are ramping up pressure on Wendy’s to ensure worker protections

Work Life

” [Photo: Coalition of Immokalee Workers] The Fair Food Program has changed these dynamics on many farms, according to Rodriguez and other workers. The Fair Food Program was formally launched in 2011, after the coalition managed to come to an agreement with tomato growers in Florida.

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Can employee ownership improve capitalism?

Work Life

Capitalism has the capacity to produce more than enough of life’s necessities—such as food, water, and shelter. Consequently, retiring business owners looking to sell their business to their employees often find accessing needed financial, legal and other supports to be challenging.

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The Patient-Enemy: How Derrida Helps Explain Psychiatry’s Cruelty and Care

Mad in America

One of the most important customs across all cultures is the sharing of meals; and, as such, one of the most disrespectful behaviors a foreigner can exhibit is to spit out the food that his host serves him. But food was not shared with her. Let us then interpret psychiatric medication as a quasi-meal. She was just there.

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