In a recent blog post, we discussed the issue of negligent hiring and how you can be held liable if you are a contract recruiter running your own back-office. The Fordyce Letter also recently tackled the subject of wrongful hiring…

“Workforce Planning” has become a hot catchphrase in the past few years, and as the economy continues its slow recovery, it is perhaps more important than ever that companies assess how they will move forward and who they will need…

If you are well versed in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or have read our blog recently, you are already well aware that most employees must be paid at a rate of 1.5 times their regular pay rate for…

As we’ve discussed in several previous blog posts, most employees must be paid at a rate 1.5 times their regular rate when they work more than 40 hours in a work week per the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). But…

Information Technology is one of the biggest industries for contract staffing, but it is also one of the most difficult to determine whether contractors working within it are entitled to overtime. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), most employees…

Companies that use interns simply as free labor are officially on notice. According to a recent article in the New York Times, it appears unpaid internships are the newest enforcement target for the Department of Labor (DOL) and state employment…