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Four-day school weeks could have FLSA impacts for businesses

Business Management Daily

You can adjust parents’ (or any employees’) work schedules to this new normal with no loss of pay, but if they’re nonexempt and can’t work from home, you must also consider your obligation to pay overtime if they end up working longer than 40 hours in a week.

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Compliance Areas for 2024 You Might Not Have Thought Of

PeopleStrategy

Let’s get into these areas that deserve another look before the new year starts: health savings accounts, overtime, retirement, remote employment, and the Affordable Care Act. Remote Employee Involuntary Terminations Now we strike a big shift from retirement to unfortunate situations of terminating employment. per hour $9,464.96

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Danielle Ayres: The changing face of flexible working

Employee Benefits

Employers should speak to staff and finding out what works for them, asking whether they would prefer to work from home or from the office, and being open to conversations about money worries. Many employers also chose to have flexible working policies in place too.

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Snow days and the FLSA

Business Management Daily

The FLSA has four simple rules for paying nonexempts : You must pay nonexempts for every hour they work, even if they haven’t sought permission to work. Collaterally, once you have paid them, you can discipline them for not seeking said permission to work from home. The key is not performing any work from home.

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Top 5 reasons to check your payslip

cipHR

As head of payroll bureau services at CIPHR’s sister company PBS , a payroll software and service provider, Jon and his team process payroll and BACS salary payments for 94,000 employees, across 500 organisations every month. CIPHR asked payroll expert Jon Lee for some pointers. Variable payments.

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How to prepare the workplace for a coronavirus pandemic

Business Management Daily

Key FLSA rules for paid leave, working from home and sick time. Your sick leave policy can allow employees to work from home, if they’re up to it. For nonexempt employees : Nonexempts who call in sick and who don’t work from home may use their accrued time for the time they’re out.

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Remote working most valued benefit for 94%

Employee Benefits

More than nine in 10 (94%) employees rate working from home as the most important benefit to them because it increases their productivity and happiness, according to research by Business Name Generator. Overall, almost a quarter (23%) of respondents said they have left a job because of a lack of workplace benefits.