New Employee Overtime Regulations Can Impact Your Business

President Obama recently signed a presidential memorandum suggesting that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) propose new rules regarding employee overtime exemption regulations for white collar workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Presidential...

Tips On How To Conduct Legally-Sound Job Interviews

Even the most experienced business owners and hiring managers make mistakes during job interviews that could land them and their company in legal how water. When interviewing candidates for a job, interviewers sometimes ask questions that to them seem like no big...

Employee Discipline and Terminations

Employee discipline and termination are probably the most dreaded tasks for entrepreneurs and small business owners. The anxiety and trauma related to a termination can sometimes be just as bad for the boss as it is for the employee. But in our litigious society,...

Why Your Business Needs an Employee Email Policy

Whether your business is large or small, if you have a company with any number of employees then you should have an email policy that is clearly communicated to everyone in the company. Even if your business does not routinely monitor employee emails, you, as the...

Top 10 Employer Mistakes Most Likely to Get You Sued

An article recently posted on the discussed ten employer mistakes that are most likely to get you sued; these include: Classifying all employees as exempt, whether or not they are. Allowing non-exempt employees to work during their lunch breaks. Classifying employees...