Company owes $62k to workers required to drop of trucks Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FSLA), all travel between job sites throughout the workday must be paid. This includes if employees are required to “check in” at their employer’s location after completing their work at the end of the day. Making mistakes [...]
FMLA may supersede rules on breaktimes What happens when an employee asks to take repeated, short breaks each workday for a health condition? Should you be making sure that person gets paid – or does the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) supersede the rules on breaktimes? The Dept. of Labor (DOL) [...]
Employer falsified timecards, then disposed of them Investigators found glaring paycheck errors at a food-processing plant in Westbury, NY, the state attorney general announced. From 2013 to 2017, Diversified Processors Inc. and Processors Inc. mishandled minimum wage and overtime payments due to 10 plant workers. Now, the employer must pay $120,555 in [...]
Check your records: The IRS recently updated several key pubs and forms related to federal tax levies. You’ll want to double-check that you have the most up-to-date info when calculating how much of an employee’s pay is exempt from levy. New instructions Because the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act eliminated the personal [...]
