The HR Pro: Big Overtime Rule Change Could Mean a Big Change to Your Bottom Line
Employers across New Hampshire, Vermont and the country are about to see big changes in overtime pay. Earlier this year, President Obama signed an executive order directing the Department of Labor to update the overtime rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The most significant proposed change for employers is that salaried employees making less than $50,440 annually will become eligible for overtime pay beginning in 2016. The...
Consumer Confidential: The Answer to Your Sleep Problems Probably Isn’t Found in a Pill Bottle
There was good news recently for people who struggle to get eight hours of sleep a night: They may not need so much shut-eye after all. And that’s bad news for the multibillion-dollar sleeping pill industry. Researchers from UCLA and elsewhere looked at sleep habits of remote hunter-gatherers in Tanzania, Namibia and Bolivia — groups with preindustrial lifestyles whose sleep patterns are believed to reflect those of ancient humans....
Next Labor Fight: Shifting Worker Schedules
Washington — If there’s one labor issue that’s come to the forefront of political agendas over the past few years, it’s the minimum wage: Cities and states around the country are taking action to boost worker pay, as federal efforts seem doomed to fail. But a new wave of reform is already in the works. Instead of how much you earn, it addresses when you work — pushing back against the longstanding corporate trend toward timing shifts...
The Life of a Resident Doctor
Lebanon — During Kevin Koo’s hardest day as a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, he sat in a conference room with the family of a critically ill patient as they debated which, if any, invasive medical steps should be taken to keep their loved one alive through the coming night. “In that moment I had to call on all of the lessons about the patient’s disease, about the patient’s physiology, about the patient’s prognosis,...
