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Paid sick leave coming for federal contractors

03/02/2016

Proposed rules issued Feb. 25 would require federal contractors to provide paid sick leave benefits.

Bad-weather absences: When must you pay exempt employees?

12/16/2015

The snow’s coming down pretty good and an exempt employee calls to say she can’t make it in today because her car is stuck. Can you deduct a full day’s pay from her salary for that missed day? What if she’s non-exempt? What if you close work because of bad weather? Here’s guidance to help you make the call.

Holiday scheduling for 2016: Compare your closing plans with other employers

11/17/2015

Does your organization close down for President’s Day? How about Good Friday or the day after Thanksgiving? To compare your holiday closing plans with those of other U.S. employers on various religious and secular holidays, review the findings of a survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) …

Make sure medical leave requests funnel through HR

11/15/2015

Elizabeth took intermittent leave after hurting her back in an auto accident. Eventually, her boss told her she wouldn’t get a raise for poor attendance …

The gift of time: Is unlimited vacation leave right for your company?

11/12/2015

In the all-out battle to recruit and retain the best qualified, most highly motivated and loyal workforce, more organizations are experimenting with taking a radically flexible approach to monitoring employees’ vacation and personal leave—or even abandoning such tracking entirely.

Detail exact terms for paying out accrued but unused vacation and sick leave

11/09/2015

New York Labor Law requires employers to notify employees “in writing or by publicly posting the employer’s policy on sick leave, vacation, personal leave, holidays and hours.” If employers do so, then the written policy governs whether the employee is entitled to payment of unused leave on termination.

Pittsburgh enacts law granting paid sick leave

11/03/2015

Pittsburgh has passed a sweeping ordinance granting paid sick leave to employees of almost every private employer based in the city. The ordinance covers both full- and part-time workers.

Unlimited vacation has bottom-line benefit

10/14/2015

A handful of employers let workers take as much time off as they want, as long as the work gets done. While most of those companies view unlimited vacation as a great perk that helps reward and retain talented and hard-working employees, there’s another reason to offer it.

D.C. bill would provide 16 weeks of paid leave, the most in U.S.

10/13/2015

Legislation before the Washington, D.C., City Council would grant District residents 16 weeks of paid family and medical leave, the most generous leave mandate in the nation.

Take off (or not): Paid leave is relatively rare

10/12/2015

Almost every employer offers employees a handful of paid holidays. Otherwise, less than half of employers offer paid leave benefits.