Workplace Tools & Safety

Are you providing your employees with the right tools and safety procedures at work? No matter which industry your company falls into—whether it’s construction, hospitality, finance, retail, health care, or financial services—it’s important for you to offer your employees the tools they need to do their job. When employees have the right tools, it creates a safer workplace, improves efficiency, and saves money. Increasing Workplace Safety The Occupational Safety

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November 5, 2019 • Industry Insights

Know Your Labor Laws

While ignorance is bliss, it is never an excuse for not knowing the law. In other words, a court will not care whether an employer understood its legal obligations when deciding whether to impose liability for a violation of the law: the court will find that the employer is responsible for knowing, understanding, and complying with its legal obligations. Labor Law Violations Where Ignorance of the Law Is Not

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October 29, 2019 • Industry Insights

Do Labor Laws Protect Employee Posts on Social Media?

Although technology is playing an ever-greater role in the workplace, few labor laws address employee use of social media. However, two federal agencies—the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)—have recently provided clarity on the protections afforded employees and their online content. Both agencies have determined that certain labor law protections should extend to employee profile information as well as certain work-related

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October 10, 2019 • Industry Insights

How the Fair Labor Standards Act—and Its Posting Requirements—Affect Your Business

What Is the Fair Labor Standards Act? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938 is a federal law that governs important wage and hour standards for U.S. employees. It sets the minimum wage, establishes rules for overtime eligibility, regulates child labor, and determines employer recordkeeping requirements. The law applies to full-time and part-time employees working for private employers as well as federal, state, and local governments. The law also

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September 26, 2019 • Industry Insights

The Life of a Poster

Have you ever been curious to know what goes into creating a labor law poster? If yes, then you’re in for a good read. In this blog, we provide a “behind the scenes” view of the life of a poster, covering the process the labor law posters go through before inevitably being shipped to your business and then posted on the wall in your workplace. While what we do

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September 12, 2019 • Industry Insights

How to Comply With Employment Laws: 6 Key Areas for Your Next HR Audit

It takes a lot more today to comply with the complex web of federal, state, and local employment laws than writing a policy and dropping it into an employee handbook. Human resources (HR) professionals need to constantly stay aware of the changes in the law, as well as run a regular audit to check their compliance so they can help protect their company. Here’s an HR Compliance checklist consisting of

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July 15, 2019 • Industry Insights

Midyear FAQs

It’s hard to believe, but we’re already halfway through 2019. We get a lot of questions at this time of year, so here we’ve answered the most common ones. Q: I purchased new posters in January, do I really need to update now? It is a common misconception that employers need to purchase new posters for each calendar year. Though many states pass new labor laws and have minimum wage

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May 29, 2019 • Industry Insights

California Labor Law FAQs

If you’re reading this, it probably won’t come as any surprise to you that keeping up with California labor law and posting requirements can be confusing. To help you get your head around it, below we’ve addressed some of the questions we hear the most. If you’re looking for the most recent updates to California labor laws, you can find them on our Labor Law Updates page. Q: Do

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May 14, 2019 • California

Corporate Solutions for Corporate Compliance

Owning your own business can be a delight; the freedom, the challenge, the sense of personal achievement. Watching your fledgling company grow and spill out of your home office and into its very own office space can be the most exciting part. But with greater size, greater problems arise… which can be especially true when it comes to labor law compliance. Keep reading to learn more about the perils of

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April 25, 2019 • Industry Insights

Your Poster Compliance Industry Insights Recap for Q1 2019

The world of labor law moves fast. Since many of these updates have mandatory requirements for almost every business across the U. S., everyone else has to move fast, too. To help you stay on top of things, here are our most useful resources and insights from the first three months of 2019. We think about labor law compliance so that you don’t have to. You can sign

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April 17, 2019 • Industry Insights

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