Corporate Services, Inc. News (2015)

12/28/2015

The delay of the new final overtime rules was not the only announcement the Department of Labor (DOL) made recently....more

12/24/2015

With the Affordable Care Act (ACA) reporting deadlines right around the corner, many unprepared employers are breathing a sigh of relief that the opportunity for a deadline ex...more

12/17/2015

By all accounts, officers in the Bureau of Organized Crime unit of the Chicago Police Department appear to have performed compensable off-duty overtime work on their BlackBerr...more

12/16/2015

Employers are not letting the spreading legalization of marijuana at the state level prevent them from creating and enforcing zero-tolerance anti-pot policies — and they...more

12/14/2015

Think an applicant's first impression is the key to your hiring decision? Google's senior vice president of people operations disagrees....more

12/09/2015

Over the years, federal agencies have issued a plethora of proposed and interim rules for the Affordable Care Act (ACA), not to mention regulatory guidance. But none of it was...more

12/04/2015

It is a new day and age for pregnant employee protections. As a result, old-school light-duty policies are getting torn to shreds in court. The line "light duty is only availa...more

11/27/2015

Employers that have managed to hang on to their grandfathered health plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for this long will want to pay close attention to the final regu...more

11/25/2015

It appears as though the Obama administration is not afraid of how its changes to the overtime exemption rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will play in the court...more

11/19/2015

Handling intermittent leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can be intimidating. Here is a case that shows it pays to act decisively when you suspect the regulat...more

11/17/2015

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has a major beef with systemic discrimination. Indeed, the EEOC has made systemic enforcement a top priority through 2016. T...more

11/04/2015

The Affordable Care Act (ACA) amended the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to require employers that employ 200 or more workers to automatically enroll new full-time employees ...more

11/02/2015

With the deadlines just months away, reporting under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is priority number one for many human resource professionals. Here is some help with that mo...more

10/19/2015

The daughter of a Forbes columnist and a Millennial penned a letter "to Management" in which she combats the common stereotypes placed upon Millennials....more

10/16/2015

On Oct. 7, 2015, President Obama signed into law the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees (PACE) Act, a bill that received rare bipartisan support. For many smaller em...more

10/15/2015

The regulations to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) include a non-exhaustive list of reasonable accommodations that may apply to allow an employee with a disability t...more

10/14/2015

Handling accommodation requests under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is tricky, as you know. But the better prepared you are before you receive a request, the bette...more

10/12/2015

A recent decision out of the Fourth Circuit (Maryland, et al) confirms that a single incident — one touch — may create a hostile work environment....more

10/09/2015

With the amount of time human resources professionals put into open enrollment season, one might think the process would result in satisfied employees who have a solid underst...more

10/08/2015

Back in 2009, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), also known as "card check," was introduced in both the Senate and House. On Oct. 6, 2015, the House and Senate introduced th...more