Compliance
HR Alert: Independent Contractor Changes
Federal Enforcement Paused – But Don’t Get Comfortable On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued Field Assistance Bulletin No. 2025-1, directing its Wage and Hour Division (WHD) investigators not to a…
HR Alert: Disparate Impact – Does it Exist Anymore?
On Wednesday, April 23, 2025, President Trump issued an Executive Order (EO) entitled Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy, which set out as the Administration’s policy a goal: to eliminate the use of di…
HR Alert: [Mis]Calculating Overtime Pay
A chronic challenge is ensuring you and your payroll company calculate compensation correctly, especially for non-exempt employees. Companies run into sometimes-difficult hurdles when non-exempt, also known as hourly, empl…
What’s the Rule of Law – and Why Should You Care?
In the day-to-day chaos of running a business – managing employees, meeting payroll, juggling clients, delivery hiccups and other deadlines – it’s easy to take for granted the legal system that underpins everyt…
HR Alert: The Future of Non-Compete Clauses
As discussed previously, in May 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) finalized a regulation that would ban non-compete clauses for any employee who isn’t a senior executive. Later, in August 2024, the proposed FT…
HR Alert: Travel Time Compensation
We hear an awful lot of questions about paying workers for their travel. So we thought that addressing the questions in a blog with some practical examples would be useful to our readers. In general, employees must be comp…
HR Alert: Local Business Settles For $225k in Discrimination Damages
A local tavern is paying two of its former bartenders $225,000 after being sued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The EEOC filed a lawsuit on behalf of the bartenders, alleging that New York Beer Proje…
HR Alert: Fourth Circuit Reinstates Executive Orders Targeting DEI Programs
In a pivotal development last night, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals lifted a previous nationwide injunction, issued by Judge Adam B. Abelson of the District Court in Maryland. We talked about Judge Abelson’s tem…
HR Alert: Navigating DEI in a Shifting Legal Landscape
Since taking office, President Trump has issued a series of Executive Orders (EOs), some of which attacked companies that believe in diversity, equity, and inclusion as means of complying with Title VII as well as various …
HR Alert: Fair Hiring Per the EEOC
Employers must ensure their hiring practices comply with federal and State employment laws—or risk costly legal consequences. In a new enforcement push, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is cracking d…