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Compensation & Benefits

Long Island restaurants must serve up $365k in back pay

02/18/2020
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division has ordered the owners of three Long Island restaurants to pay 79 employees $365,000 in back pay and liquidated damages.

Work-life balance: The times they are a-changin’

02/14/2020
The current trends of work-life balance, and what managers can do to accommodate.

Financial well-being benefits now more common

02/11/2020
Seventy percent of companies currently offer financial well-being benefits and more than half of them intend to expand such offerings in 2020, according to a new study by the WorldatWork association and employee equity plan company Computershare.

Employers call pharmacy benefit costs unsustainable

02/11/2020
Sixty percent of large employers say their prescription drug benefits are too costly and have become unsustainable.

Labor Department issues two new wage-and-hour opinion letters

02/07/2020
In January, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued two opinion letters addressing wage-and-hour issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act. One involves discretionary bonuses while the second addresses whether some extra payments for exempt workers may affect their exemptions.

Reversal: Supreme Court could fast-track ACA appeal

02/06/2020
Less than a month after declining to review an appeal of a 5th Circuit Court decision that invalidated part of the Affordable Care Act, the Supreme Court has signaled it might be open to fast-tracking the case after all.

Americans value retirement plans such as 401(k)s

02/04/2020
Most Americans are confident that 401(k)s and other defined contribution retirement accounts can help people meet their retirement goals, according to a new study released by the Investment Company Institute.

AB 5—California’s new independent contractor law—comes under fire

02/03/2020
Opponents of California’s controversial new independent contractor law, AB 5, have moved to get a competing law on the ballot. They fear that if gig workers became employees, as they would under AB 5, it would raise some employer costs an estimated 30%.

California employees can collect penalties for unpaid wages

02/03/2020
A new amendment to Labor Code Section 210 allows employees to recover civil penalties without going through the Labor Commissioner.

Prepare to offer more leave for California organ donors

02/03/2020
Effective on Jan. 1, 2020, employees in organizations with 15 or more employees in California may now take additional leave to donate organs.