The HR Pro: Top Human Resource Issues for 2016, Part 2
From evolving workplace demographics to overtime expansion to a number of other issues, human resource professionals this year are facing a variety of new and developing challenges. Last month’s column addressed four health-related topics. This month, we’ll look at four workplace and employment issues. The Use and Misuse of Independent Contractors There is growing tension between employers’ desire to use independent contractors — to...
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...
Manhunt for Escapees Cost N.Y. $22 Million
Albany, N.y. — Payroll records suggest the hunt for two escaped killers in northern New York cost more than $1 million a day, with overtime alone for state troopers and corrections officers $22 million higher than last year. State comptroller records obtained Friday by The Associated Press for June and July show that overtime totaled $41 million for the corrections department and $17.6 million for state police. That’s roughly twice...
Obama Proposes Changes to Overtime Pay
Washington — Here’s a convenient way of getting more work out of your employees, without paying the required time-and-a-half pay for anything over 40 hours a week: Call them “managers.” Currently, these so-called white collar workers are exempt from overtime if they make more than $455 a week or $23,660 per year, even if they perform routine tasks like stocking shelves at a convenience store. In fact, those small-time bosses don’t...
