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Regular rate calculation gets a makeover

Business Management Daily

Nonexempt employees who work longer than 40 hours in a week must be paid overtime at 1.5 15, 2020, allow you to offer more perks to nonexempt employees without having to include those perks in their regular rate calculation when you’re figuring their overtime rate. Cash payments for unused paid leave, including paid sick leave.

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JOB SATISFACTION

HR Management Activities

Because illness, death in the family, and other personal reasons for absences are unavoidable and understandable, many employers have sick-leave policies that allow employees a certain number of paid absent days per year. Absenteeism tends to be highest in governmental agencies, utilities, and manufacturing firms.

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Employee handbook examples and sample policies

Business Management Daily

Ensuring that employees understand overtime, break, and timekeeping procedures is essential to the operation of any business. You are entitled to an unpaid one-hour lunch each workday unless you are leaving early and working under five hours. Sick leave. Here’s a sick leave policy example for your employee handbook.

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Mandatory vacation time for employees: 6 pros and 6 cons

Insperity

If a nursing team is short-staffed and working overtime to cover all shifts, one person taking a week off may cause a hardship to coworkers and managers. This is common in the manufacturing, tax consulting and retail industries, where companies have distinct, predictable busy seasons. Mandatory sick leave?

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