Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries just decided to substantially raise the state’s salary threshold to meet the salary basis test for “white-collar” overtime exemptions. Here’s […]

Nevada employers have a very important New Year’s resolution to complete: complying with the state’s first-ever paid leave law. If you aren’t up to speed on […]

Uber Technologies reached a nationwide settlement with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to resolve sexual-harassment and retaliation claims and improve its business culture. Source: New feed […]

​Publicly traded companies based in California are scrambling to meet a state law—the first in the U.S.—requiring that they have at least one woman on their […]

The fallout of the opioid epidemic continues to be felt at work, and the number of workplace suicides is increasing at an alarming rate. But steps […]

In light of Supreme Court decisions favoring arbitration, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is scrapping its longstanding policy against the use of mandatory, pre-dispute […]

​A panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruled Dec. 18 that the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual coverage mandate, effectively repealed […]

​Many companies send employees surveys asking how they feel about their work, their boss and their company. They are asked to be candid and assured that […]

What is an HR professional to do when a company’s vice president wants to fire her assistant but has never documented any performance problems. There are […]