In most cases, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employees be paid at a rate of 1.5 times their regular rate for any hours worked over 40 in a work week. However, it does allow employees in certain…

If an employer knowingly hires someone that is likely to put themselves, the company, or other workers at risk, that employer could find themselves on the business end of a negligent hiring lawsuit. Why should you care? Well, if you…

We previously reported in this blog that temporary/contract hiring is up, which is a good sign that the economy is recovering because companies often hire contractors before taking a chance on direct hires. A recent press release by G. Palmer…

If you think that temporary/contract staffing is only for lower level positions, think again. Especially in the current economy, no level of employment is exempt from contracting, and one of the more recent trends in temporary/contract staffing is executive temping….

Like so many back-office tasks associated with employing workers on a contract basis, assigning workers’ compensation classification codes to contractors is a task mired in complicated rules and exceptions. Common sense may tell you that all you need to know…

If you are providing contractors under a federal contract or operate in certain states and you are running your own back-office, you may be required to run those contractors through E-Verify, an online system which checks information contractors provide on…