The Dynamex Decision: The New CA Supreme Court Ruling is Now Incorporated into Navigator IC

The Dynamex Decision On April 30, 2018, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Dynamex Operations West v. S.C. (Lee et al.), marking a landmark shift in what employers must now show to properly classify workers as independent contractors under California law. The Court rejected the Borellotest and instead adopted a modified “ABC” test, similar to…

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California Announces a New Wage and Hour Independent Contractor Test

BY STEPHEN MELNICK, LITTLER MENDELSON, ON  MAY 1, 2018 In a groundbreaking new decision, the California Supreme Court announced a significant change in independent contractor law, adopting a modified “ABC” test for determining whether an individual is an employee under the Wage Orders.1  This new independent contractor test is modeled on Massachusetts’ independent contractor statute, which…

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Click your way through the protective leave process…

Forms and Deadlines, and Leave, Oh My! How do you tackle FMLA leave requests? Leave is one of the most difficult HR processes to manage effectively. To remain compliant, employers must document and file a variety of FMLA forms, adhere to federal and state requirements, and meet DOL filing deadlines, which often proves challenging. Looking…

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Ready to power your overtime compliance process?

A better way to tackle overtime: Navigator OT, ComplianceHR’s intelligent online solution, is 96% more efficient and cost effective than available traditional methods to evaluate exempt/non-exempt employees. In as little as 20 minutes, our solution delivers specific, actionable, expert guidance which takes the country’s best legal experts over 10 hours to accomplish. We’d love to show you how it’s done. Contact us at info@compliancehr.com or through…

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The State of Compliance 

By Lori Brown At the recent 29th Annual General Counsel Conference, sponsored by Corporate Counsel, Jonathan Shiffman, Associate General Counsel of litigation and employment for Ralph Lauren, predicted that the Republican majority in Congress makes it unlikely we’ll see new employee-friendly legislation passed at the federal level. Instead, according to Shiffman, employee advocates are having…

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Paid Sick Leave

Compliance for paid sick leave is becoming more difficult as more states and municipalities are passing sick leave laws. Employers now need to understand the threshold number of employees that trigger compliance and individual laws generally specify where an employee works, not where they live. Employers need to determine whether employees will accrue sick leave…

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Conquer the Burden of Wage and Hour Compliance

Wage and hour compliance continues to place a heavy burden on employers as they struggle with the fragmented collection of employment laws. Keeping up with changes across jurisdictions is difficult and expanding state regulations combined with ongoing changes in federal regulations make compliance even more challenging. ComplianceHR has developed a quick and easy to use…

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Paid Sick Leave

Compliance for paid sick leave is becoming more difficult as more states and municipalities are passing sick leave laws. Employers now need to understand the threshold number of employees that trigger compliance and individual laws generally specify where an employee works, not where they live. Employers need to determine whether employees will accrue sick leave…

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The State of Compliance

By Lori Brown At the recent 29th Annual General Counsel Conference, sponsored by Corporate Counsel, Jonathan Shiffman, Associate General Counsel of litigation and employment for Ralph Lauren, predicted that the Republican majority in Congress makes it unlikely we’ll see new employee-friendly legislation passed at the federal level. Instead, according to Shiffman, employee advocates are having…

Read More

Conquer the Burden of Wage and Hour Compliance

Wage and hour compliance continues to place a heavy burden on employers as they struggle with the fragmented collection of employment laws. Keeping up with changes across jurisdictions is difficult and expanding state regulations combined with ongoing changes in federal regulations make compliance even more challenging. ComplianceHR has developed a quick and easy to use…

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