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From a legal standpoint, once you have an employee in a nonexempt role, you must consider a bigger ocean of wage-hour laws — think meal and rest breaks, fair workweek and predictive scheduling laws, deduction laws, minimum wage requirements.

Navigating state laws could make offering the benefit a bit more complex, she said.

In California, a court this year ruled that ride-hailing and delivery companies like Uber and Lyft can continue to treat their California drivers as independent contractors , meaning they are not entitled to benefits like paid sick leave and unemployment insurance.

But in their rush to incorporate the latest and greatest AI platforms into their processes, some organizations may be making what could be costly mistakes, according to experts.

.; Reuse Permission Twenty-five U.S. states are boosting their minimum wage in 2024, with baseline pay bumping up to at least $16 an hour in California, Washington and parts of New York.

The Holland & Knight LLP law firm stated , “A more narrowly tailored, content- and viewpoint-neutral EO could pass muster.

“Companies adopted all these new flexible and hybrid working arrangements, but they didn’t put the safeguards in place to actually stop themselves from tipping over into burnout,” he said.

But in June, before that could happen, the FTC requested a preliminary injunction to prevent Microsoft from completing the acquisition, with an eye toward bringing the case to its administrative law judge on Aug. 2.

Mark Neuberger, an employment law attorney at Foley & Lardner LLP, told Workspan Daily in January that there are five primary causes for increased union activity : Chronic wage disparities ;High inflation ;General economic and political insecurity ;Greater awareness of workers ; While there has no doubt been a market correction in some sectors, with an increase in layoffs and hiring freezes signaling a slight change in the power dynamic between employers and employees, the same doesn’t necessarily apply to government jobs, particularly when it comes to education workers.

Tips to Make Well-Being Part of the Business An April report from The Conference Board recommended integrating employee well-being into an organization’s business strategy and culture by taking steps such as: Extending responsibility for well-being beyond HR to the whole organization.