Below is an overview of the key tax changes affecting business in the recently enacted Hiring Incentives to Restore Employment (HIRE) Act. The act was signed into law by the president on March 18, 2010. Read More
A Department of Labor proposal to educate employees on their rights could open up companies’ classification decisions to scrutiny by workers and the courts. Read more
The Internal Revenue Service plans to increase audits of the self-employed by checking for unreported or understated income during correspondence audits. Read more
This indictment shows ICE’s commitment to holding businesses accountable when they repeatedly ignore immigration laws as it relates to their workforce. Read More
Businesses that treat workers as independent contractors face an increasing risk that state and federal agencies will contest the classification of some of these individuals. Although independent contractor relationships have long been an audit target, governments experiencing deep financial pressures are scrutinizing them with new fervor. Read More
INDIANAPOLIS –Walmart Stores will pay $11.7 million in back wages and compensatory damages, its share of employer taxes, and up to $250,000 in administration fees and will furnish other relief, including jobs, to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the agency announced today. Read More
A recommended cut in workers compensation rates in Nevada could provide a boost to efforts to woo new industry to the state.
The National Council on Compensation Insurance recommended an average decrease of 7.6 percent in the portion of workers compensation rates that are established on the basis of loss experience. Read More
Congress’s healthcare bill refers to disabled adults as “retarded” but Congress has exempted itself from the Americans With Disabilities Act.
No such luck for a Chicago hotel that recently had to pay the government $90,000 to get the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to drop its attack because two supervisors referred to a disabled adult as “retarded.”
Payroll Solutions offers instruction in sensitivity training to help employers try to avoid problems like this. Ask your Human Resources Consultant about these services today.
Here’s the story of a small, local business that got it’s clock cleaned by federal bureaucrats.
It agreed to pay a hundred grand to make a bureaucrat complaint go away. Ouch!
So complicated that one of the government agencies charged with policing employers violated it.
It can’t be good news for us ordinary folk when even a government agency tasked with overseeing employment fairness can’t get the overtime rules right.
Yet that’s exactly what happened recently. The EEOC, the federal employment discrimination watchdog, admitted in a somewhat sheepish news release that it had in fact violated the Fair Labor Standards Act with its own employees.
Here’s the entire story, from The HR Cafe.
