by Mimi Soule | Mar 17, 2020 | Compliance, COVID-19 / Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Unemployment Benefits, Wage and Hour
With customers staying home, employees working remotely and some businesses temporarily closing, we wanted to provide North Carolina business owners and managers with some possible options on how to manage and pay employees during this time. As you know, this...
by Mimi Soule | Mar 13, 2020 | Americans with Disabilities Act, COVID-19 / Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Discrimination, Employee Leave, FMLA, Legal Risk, OSHA/Safety, Wage and Hour
All employers, no matter how small, are required under NC and federal law to provide a safe working environment for their employees. To meet this legal obligation, employers should create a plan to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and to avoid exposing employees and...
by Mimi Soule | Nov 14, 2019 | Compliance, Legal Risk, Wage and Hour
As a small business owner, I work with – and network with – many business advisors and coaches. And I keep hearing that I need to schedule time before the end of the year to focus on analyzing my business efforts in 2019 and update my business plan for...
by Mimi Soule | Sep 24, 2019 | Compliance, Wage and Hour
Today, the DOL issued its final ruling on new changes to certain white collar exemptions. As many of you are aware, generally, all employees are non-exempt and eligible for minimum wage and overtime pay unless their position can be classified as “exempt”...
by Mimi Soule | Mar 25, 2019 | Wage and Hour
As mentioned in our March 17, 2019 blog post about the DOL’s new proposed overtime rule, on March 22, 2019, the DOL published the proposed rule in the Federal Register. So, the 60-day comment period has begun. If you have an opinion, now is the time to speak up and...
