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Implications of COVID-19 on Your Health and Welfare Benefit Plans
Employers are grappling with employee benefit issues in response to the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“COVID-19”). Efforts are being made to pave the way for widespread testing by eliminating cost barriers such as deductibles, copayments, coinsurance, or High Deductible Health Plan restrictions to ensure employees and their families are proactively being diagnosed once symptoms present, to…
Read MoreTime Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … Permissible Deductions from Exempt Employees’ Pay
Most employers are well aware that employees must be paid on a “salary basis” to be considered exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). This means employees must receive the same amount of pay each week regardless of the amount or quality of work they perform for a given week.…
Read MoreDifferent Standards Apply to Equal Pay Act and Title VII Pay Discrimination Claims
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, with its territory comprising the states of Connecticut, Vermont and New York, held that a plaintiff does not need to establish a violation of the Equal Pay Act in order to maintain a pay discrimination claim under Title VII. As the Second Circuit noted in Lenzi v.…
Read MoreTime Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … Inclement Weather
As winter once again approaches, employers, particularly those in cold-weather states, face the recurring specter of inclement weather affecting business operations and employee attendance. While the weather may create stress and disruption for a business and its people, employers must not lose sight of the fact that the rules governing how you pay your employees…
Read MoreFour Ways of Avoiding Liability on Common Wage and Hour Compliance Issues
Wage and hour lawsuits are big news these days. Jury verdicts and settlements capture headlines warning of damages and fees totaling seven or more figures, and class certifications in pending cases exponentially expand the risk posed by a single miscalculation or mistaken designation. How can employers best reduce the risk of becoming the next cautionary…
Read MoreLabor Department Clears the Way for Employee Perks
Employees appreciate employee discounts, tuition reimbursement, prizes of small value, and wellness benefits. But those perks had been put in danger in recent years by lawsuits claiming that employers should have paid overtime on their value. On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor saved these and other welcomed extras by issuing revised regulations…
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