


The Pros and Cons of PTO
These days, many of us are just an email, text, or click away from work. So it’s more important than ever to make sure you and your employees are getting time away to recharge. Increasingly, that’s coming in the form of PTO or Paid Time Off, an integrated system that...
Sexual Harassment by Non-Employees: Are Employers Liable?
Much has been written and said about an employer’s liability for sexual harassment by its own employees, and we have provided tips on how to prevent it in your workplace. However, you can also be liable when a non-employee harasses one of your employees. Both...
Best Practices for Classifying Employees
Did you know that just because you are paying an employee on a salary basis, it does not immediately make that employee ineligible for overtime? The crucial distinction is whether the employee is exempt or non-exempt from wage regulations that cover overtime. The...
Making a New Employee Feel Welcome
Congratulations! The hard part is over—you’ve finally hired someone. You now have a new “employee.” That means you need to give the person the tools to be the best worker he or she can be, and the process of making a new employee feel welcome starts on Day One....