• The HR Specialist - Print Newsletter
  • HR Specialist: Employment Law
  • The HR Weekly

Compensation & Benefits

WHD rolls two sushi restaurants for OT violations

02/18/2014
Two Nassau County sushi restaurants will pay $261,887 in back wages and liquidated damages to 70 workers following an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division.

Obama: Higher minimum for fed contractors’ employees

02/18/2014
President Obama plans to issue an executive order requiring federal contractors to pay employees at least $10.10 per hour, starting in 2015.

TIGTA reports EIN fraud is bad and getting worse

02/18/2014
The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration has reported that during the 2011 tax year, 285,670 EINs were stolen or fraudulently used to claim income tax refunds totaling more than $2.25 billion. TIGTA also estimated that the IRS could issue $11.4 billion in tax refunds over the next five years due to EIN fraud.

Regulatory alert: What’s new from the IRS

02/17/2014
The IRS has been busy adding to its regulatory agenda. Here’s the latest news from the regulations front.

When is it OK to punish by docking pay?

02/13/2014
Q. May I dock an employee’s pay as a penalty for disciplinary infractions?

Purina’s benefits cover employees’ pets, too

02/13/2014

Nestlé Purina Petcare’s employee benefits program offers workers a little help with their own pets. The pet food maker offers $200 to any associate who adopts or becomes a pet owner to help defray initial costs.

W-2 season isn’t over yet–now it’s W-2c time

02/13/2014
W-2s are filed with the Social Security Administration in winter. Corrections, which are made on Form W-2c, begin immediately thereafter. The earlier you fix errors on your W-2s, the less likely it is you’ll be penalized by the IRS.

Survey: Employees like current health benefits, are open to ACA exchanges

02/12/2014
Most workers are satisfied with the health benefits they have now and aren’t interested in changing the current mix of benefits and wages offered by their employers, according to a new survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute.

Is there any hidden obligation to give raises?

02/11/2014
Q. Does any law require a company to give employees a raise at the end of the year or other amount of time?

New myRAs seek to spur retirement savings among low-income workers

02/10/2014
In his State of the Union address, President Obama announced that he was directing the Treasury Department to create “myRA”—a government-backed affordable “starter retirement savings account that will help millions of low- and middle-income Americans begin to save for retirement.”