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The New #FLSA Overtime Changes: Make Sure Company Policies Are Aligned

HR Bartender

Employers will be allowed to use nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) to satisfy up to 10 percent of the new salary threshold. A mechanism for automatically updating threshold levels every three years has been established. These changes go into effect on Dec. You get the point.

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Issue Commentary: Compensability of Injuries Sustained as a Result of Inoculations

The Workcomp Writer

2016-Ohio-8304, 2016 Ohio App. 2d 41 (2003), while having her blood drawn at work in order to receive additional life insurance benefits, the claimant suffered a disabling nerve injury. Walgreen Co. LEXIS 5147]. Contour Fabricators, Inc. , 121, 662 N.W.2d 2d 51 (2003), aff’d in relevant part , 469 Mich. 960, 671 N.W.2d

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Are Workers’ Compensation benefits protected against the rising cost of living?

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

A recent WCRI/IAIABC survey of Workers’ Compensation Laws (2016) recorded 27 US states with no cost-of-living escalator for permanent total disability cases. Other real expenses that are excluded from the “basket of goods” [in Canada, at last] are real estate and life insurance. percent increase effective January 2019.