A company's greatest resource is the staff. Learn about how the Interactive Process Meeting can serve as a productive forum for branstorming working safer,smarter strategies. Read more »

Within the last few months, the United States Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division ("the DOL") has issued a number of opinion letters construing the executive, professional, and administrative overtime exemptions... Read more »

We do not get to choose who ends up at the desk next to us. Therefore, with this in mind, it is essential that we develop tools to embrace each other's uniqueness,... Read more »

Often, job duties require employees to carry pagers or cell phones and be available in case of an emergency. Employees often feel as though their free time is restricted due to the... Read more »

Employers may be investigated, inspected, audited, or visited by the United States Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division ("WHD"), Occupational Safety and Health Administration ("OSHA"), or assigned state agencies.The WHD is... Read more »

Faced with skyrocketing annual increases in health care and workers' compensation premiums, employers are looking for ways to manage the health and health care costs of the workforce. Employers have increasingly focused... Read more »

Employee embezzlement costs American employers about $6 billion per year. Embezzlement is the fraudulent taking of personal property with which one has been entrusted. By definition, the offender is someone trusted by... Read more »

A new decision was issued by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week which highlights an FMLA regulation that many employers may be overlooking in their implementation of this law.The decision... Read more »

A state appeals court recently reversed a jury verdict in favor of a companys former executive, finding that the employer had the discretion to determine whether just cause existed, highlighting the importance... Read more »