Walmart is standardizing its patchwork employment policies to offer all its store and warehouse workers paid sick leave. The changes are a nod to the increasing number of local and state governments requiring employers to offer some time off for sick days. But the retail giant is simultaneously cracking down on no-show workers by cutting […]
How to shrink the pay gap
Requiring companies to report on the pay disparity between male and female employees has the power to shrink such gaps, according to a recent study. The researchers, who examined two groups of Danish companies, found that salary gaps declined by 7% over five years at firms that were required to report on their disparities. The […]
Employers need to address carers
Employers underestimate how hard it is for staff to balance work and caregiving duties, according to a new study from Harvard Business School researchers. The study found almost three quarters of U.S. workers have some caregiving duties: 32% have left a job because they couldn’t balance both; more than 80% say their caregiving duties prohibit them from optimal […]
Jackson Lewis issues benefit advisory on meal deductions
Notice 2018-76: Taking a Bite Out of the Business Expense Deductions for Meals, Entertainment The Notice explained that, under Code Section 274(k), no deduction is allowed for food and beverage expense unless the expense is not lavish or extravagant under the circumstances and the taxpayer or an employee of the taxpayer is present at the […]
IRS releases notice about 2017 Moving Expenses
IRS issues tax notice https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/irs-issues-tax-notice-daniel-bloom-sphr-ssbb/?published=t
Thank you for the memories
Take a trip back in time to May of 1991 at the Anatole Hotel for the Worldwide ERC’s National Relocation Conference. During that event two events took place which would shape my work for over a quarter of a century. The first was the suggestion from a member of the ERC staff that based on […]
TLS Continuum Part 87: Processes Gone Awry
First of all, let me extend my regrets for not keeping better in touch but I and my family have been fighting this bug that is flying around. Not the flu but close to it. It sucks to be under the weather. This past week has been filled with more irony then I would want […]
TLS Continuum Part 86: 5 ways to bring business skills to the classroom
We constantly read in the media and hear our elected officials espousing that our schools are in turmoil. However, if we bring the TLS Continuum and its associated business skills to the school environment we can counter these messages of gloom and doom. So how do we make that happen? Map your processes Both from […]
New I-9 form goes live today
The federal government’s new I-9 form for employment verification goes live today. Further information can be found at https://www.uscis.gov/i-9
Department of Labor changes the playing field
U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta today announced the withdrawal of the U.S. Department of Labor’s 2015 and 2016 informal guidance on joint employment and independent contractors. Removal of the administrator interpretations does not change the legal responsibilities of employers under the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, […]