The Equal Pay Act (EPA) prohibits sex-based wage discrimination between men and women in the same establishment who perform jobs that require substantially equal skill, effort, and responsibility under similar working conditions. Women have historically been paid less than men for the same work, and this still holds true despite the EPA. According to the [...]
My paternal grandparents were Greek immigrants. During WWI, my grandfather was living in a small port village in Asia Minor (now Turkey) with his parents and siblings. When he was seven years old, a “rogue magistrate” decided to round up all the Greeks in the village and kill them. They were taken out to sea [...]
I’ve never been a fan of Performance Improvement Plans. PIPs are designed to give an employee a chance to improve his performance standards, with a set timeframe for accomplishing goals and specific consequences for failure to do so. Even when used how intended, PIPs are problematic when the employee fails to improve his performance standards, [...]
I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: Employment laws are fluid! In the ever-changing landscape of today’s workplace, it is critical that employers keep their policies current and lawful. Remember when it was okay to prohibit employees from discussing their wages? Or when you could prohibit an employee in Texas from keeping a [...]
Are your employees properly classified? Two areas of misclassification that trip up employers and can cause costly problems down the road are misclassifying employees who are entitled to overtime, and misclassifying employees as independent contractors. Overtime - Exempt v. Non-Exempt. With certain exceptions, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay overtime to [...]
