Top 20 FMLA Questions

1. Do Employers Have To Tell Employees that FMLA Leave Is Available?2. Does the Employee Have To Give the Employer Notice of Intent To TakeLeave?  Read more »

Not-So-Comprehensive Immigration Reform

A vote on immigration reform is likely in the coming days. But is the proposed legislation a real solution? Read more »

We’ve Been Through This Before

Attention Health Care Shoppers, you have already experienced what is going on around you the last time you bought a car, researched real estate, invested, purchased music or a book, or looked... Read more »

Doctor Google

Health Care Consumerism Just Took a Huge Leap Forward Now when you go to Google and type in a health related search you will find different options that will make searching for health... Read more »

SEXUAL HARASSMENT PREVENTION: WHAT EMPLOYERS NEED TO KNOW

Sexual Harassment Prevention: This is the first in a series of informational articles on this important subject. Through this article series, we will discuss sexual harassment, what it is, what it is... Read more »

Want to withhold payment for unused vacation upon termination? Make sure you can.

It happens all the time. An employee departs either voluntarily or involuntarily under unpleasant circumstances. The employer believes the employee isnt deserving of receiving a check?often a sizable one?for unused... Read more »

CDHP controls costs

Heres what I know: consumer-driven health plans (CDHP), structured correctly, can control costs for employers, provide employees the financial resource necessary to obtain health care services and improve benefits for companies... Read more »

Documenting Your Way Out Of Trouble

Sometimes you may get the feeling that judges and legislators have complete control over your employment relationship with your employees. While there are laws that regulate some aspects of employment anti-discrimination statutes,... Read more »

OFCCP Regulations on

The Department of Labor's Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' (OFCCP) final regulations defining "Internet Applicants" and setting forth new recordkeeping requirements went into effect on February 6, 2006. Although the regulations... Read more »

Know Who Is An Employee

The creation of an employer-employee relationship imposes many obligations on the employer verifying authorization to work on the I-9 form, providing workers' compensation insurance, paying payroll taxes, and on and on. Many... Read more »