Recruiting Employees and the FTC/DOJ – Opening the Door to Criminal Liability! So you need to hire some employees, and you want to pay them well, but not more than necessary. You call a friend who works for one of your competitors and ask what her company is paying new hires in these positions. Your… Read More »
Category: Greater Winston-Salem, Inc. News
Employment Law In Focus – November 2016
Employment Law In Focus – October 2016
The holiday season is almost upon us, and with it comes one of the largest “gifts” the U.S. Department of Labor has ever provided – the new Final Rule on overtime pay effective December 1, 2016. Unfortunately for employers, this gift is heavily weighted in favor of increasing the scope of overtime pay for employees,… Read More »
Alan Proctor: A bond that unites
Alan Proctor, Winston-Salem Marketing President of Wells Fargo and former Chairman of the Forsyth Technical Community College Board of Trustees, shared his insights as a guest columnist for the Winston-Salem Journal. “As one who is invested in the continued growth and development of Winston-Salem, I see first-hand Forsyth Tech’s mandate to remain ahead of the… Read More »
Employment Law In Focus – August 2016
With apologies to Shakespeare, “To hire or not to hire – is that the question?” One of the latest employment law debates around the country involves the practice of checking the criminal records of applicants for employment. Driven by the legitimate desire to hire only the best qualified and “safest” employees, many companies ask in… Read More »
Employment Law In Focus
As you may have already heard, one of the latest examples of unfriendly rulemaking directed at employers from the U.S. Department of Labor concerns regulations that adopt a new interpretation of the “persuader” reporting requirements under the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act. The key points of those requirements are outlined below – and unless… Read More »
Employment Law In Focus
Just when businesses thought it couldn’t get any crazier with developments out of Washington, along came May 18, 2016. That’s when the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor released its long-awaited and much-contested Final Rule regarding changes to the regulations governing who is an executive, administrative, professional, or highly-compensated employee under the Fair… Read More »