The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is a federal statute that applies to most jobs within the United States. The law regulates such things as minimum wages, overtime hours and child labor laws. In addition to following these regulations, your business should also use salary reports, compensation surveys and other market compensation data to make sure your employees are being compensated fairly.
While the FLSA is designed to protect employees, there are certain elements of the law that can be a cause of confusion for employers. The following is a list of common FLSA pitfalls that employers can and do fall into:
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The 5 Biggest Problems in Health Care Today
I named this blog "Losing Patients" as a play on words. But in all seriousness, our health care system is literally losing "patients," killing more than 500 per day from errors, accidents and infections in hospitals alone, not to mention the mortality and suffering from millions of procedures that never needed to be done in the first place.
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A doctors health care prescription
Dr. Ben Carson, a neurosurgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, was an overnight sensation with his speech to the National Prayer Breakfast earlier this month. As President Obama listened, Dr. Carson's keynote address challenged political correctness, demanded a better educational system, urged enactment of a flat tax and made a case for health savings accounts to be issued at birth, which would replace Obamacare.
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WASHINGTON - There are widening divisions among officials of the Federal Reserve over the value of its efforts to reduce unemployment, but the authors of its bond-buying policy remain firmly in control, according to an official account of the January meeting of the Fed's policy-making committee.
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WASHINGTON -- As the White House developed its new proposal to raise the federal minimum wage, there was at least one core constituency of President Obama's that was largely left out of the loop on the plan: organized labor.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether union workers can be compensated for the time it takes for them to change in and out of safety gear.
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