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Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Wage and Hour Around the Corner: From Zoom to Room Staying on Solid Legal Grounds with a Remote Staff or an Office Return

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The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes...more

Conn Kavanaugh

Employer Beware: Do Your Due Diligence Before Embracing “Work from Anywhere”

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It has been five years since the COVID-19 pandemic sent a large percentage of the American workforce into their homes to work remotely. Since that time, many employers have continued to embrace remote working even in...more

Offit Kurman

OK at Work: Navigating Snow Days, Office Closures, and Remote Work Planning

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On this week's OK at Work, Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger discuss both compensation and engagement issues related to snow days and other unexpected office closures, as well as the value of planning ahead for remote work....more

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Seventh Circuit: Travel Time During Normal Working Hours is Compensable for Employees on Remote Assignment

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Employees who work away from home overnight on assignments lasting several days or weeks are entitled to compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for time spent traveling to such assignments when the travel...more

Dickinson Wright

Remote Employees Participating in Employee Benefit Plans – What’s Local Law Got to Do with It?

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Recently, a client called about a remote employee who was moving from the company’s primary location to a different state, and would continue working for the company.  The company had no other employees in the new state and...more

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UAE’s Remote Work Revolution: The Virtual Visa Advantage

In a world where remote work has become increasingly common, the UAE has taken a transformative step by introducing the one-year Remote Work Visa. This initiative allows individuals to reside in the UAE while working for...more

Lowenstein Sandler LLP

WFH: How to Set Expectations for a Remote Workforce and Comply with Disparate State Employment Laws

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Today on Just Compensation, Megan Monson, Julie Levinson Werner, Taryn E. Cannataro, and Amy C. Schwind discuss some of the issues an employer must consider as the workforce becomes increasingly remote. They recommend that...more

Fisher Phillips

The 8 Biggest Considerations When Deciding Your Work-From-Home Compensation Strategy

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Like many employers, you may have shifted to a remote work or hybrid model allowing employees to work from home full time or split their time between home and the office. But have you decided how you will pay remote workers,...more

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In the middle of workplace transformation, paralegals are scarce. How can you attract the best and brightest?

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The Great Resignation. The work from home revolution. Whatever you call it and however you characterize it, the disruption in the labor market that accompanied the COVID-19 pandemic has made its effects felt from the top...more

Health Care Compliance Association (HCCA)

Institutions Turn to New Workforce Strategies To Counter Effects of Great Resignation

Report on Research Compliance 19, no.8 (August, 2022) - Research institutions, struggling with pandemic-induced employee retention and recruitment challenges, are turning to strategies designed to keep adequate staff...more

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC

Compensation Structure in the Post-COVID Remote-Work Era

The pandemic generated a migration of employees from metro-based offices to smaller, more affordable communities where they could work from home. New complexities – mostly centered around pay scale – have arisen with this...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Juggling a Remote, Hybrid and/or Multistate Workforce: What Employers Should Know

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As employers hire new staff members, keep in mind individual state employment laws, ADA considerations and compensation requirements. At the beginning of the pandemic, large swaths of the country converted from in-person...more

Nilan Johnson Lewis PA

Pay Equity Analyses in the Land of Zoom

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The COVID-19 pandemic has impacted many areas of the employment landscape. Job descriptions, essential functions, ADA accommodations, undue hardship, and Title VII religious accommodations are all areas that have been...more

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Employee Benefits & Executive Compensation 2021 Summer Client Advisory

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This Client Advisory summarizes developments in the law governing employee benefit plans prompted by the COVID-19 pandemic. We explain what these developments mean for plan sponsors and highlight the need to adopt plan...more

Vinson & Elkins LLP

The Challenges Of Remote Working With A Globally Mobile Workforce

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Time will tell whether the current pandemic will result in a significant long-term shift towards remote working, but in the short- and medium-term, employers continue to grapple with issues that arise with employees working...more

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Department of Labor Issues Guidance On Recordkeeping For Remote Workers

The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) codifies the employment relationship as it relates to the payment of wages. The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) administers the FLSA through its Wage and Hour Division....more

K&L Gates LLP

COVID-19: COVID-19 Considerations: Compensation Topics

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In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting economic uncertainty, many employers are searching for ways to be financially prepared in the weeks and months to come while simultaneously balancing the well-being of...more

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