A recent Human Resource Executive Online article illustrates what Top Echelon Contracting has been saying on this blog for months: misclassifying W-2 Employees as Independent Contractors and employees who should receive overtime as exempt are two of the Obama administration’s…

Top Echelon Contracting recently posted a blog entry regarding the government’s crackdown on the illegal use of unpaid interns. If you want to save yourself a little reading, a recent video on unpaid internships posted on www.informedworkplace.com by employment attorney…

Top Echelon Contracting has discussed numerous times in this blog about how the federal government is stepping up enforcement on Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) violations, particularly the misclassification of W-2 Employees as Independent Contractors and incorrectly classifying employees as…

It seems like unemployment is hitting workers on both ends of the age spectrum especially hard. In a recent blog post, we referred to a www.ere.net article that illustrated college graduate’s struggles finding employment. Now an article on www.msnbc.com shows…

We have discussed in previous blog posts how clients are reluctant to hire unemployed candidates because they perceive that they are “lower-level.” Well, according to a recent Huffington Post article, some employers are taking it a step further by making…

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that most hourly workers be paid 1.5 times their regular pay rate when they work more than 40 hours in a work week. But as we’ve discussed in previous blog posts, if you…