With the New Year comes a rise in the minimum hourly wage and salary level the government requires you to pay to your workers. The minimum weekly salary is the lowest salary you may pay an employee, presuming they have primarily exempt duties, for him or her to be exempt from the minimum wage and overtime pay requirements, under the professional, executive or administrative exemptions.  In 2020 the minimum salary threshold at the federal level will rise to $684.00 a week. If you are located in states like California or New York, howeve...

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Earlier this year, New York Sate joined other states and localities in passing a law banning inquiries about an individual’s salary history. The new State law goes into effect on January 6, 2020. The State law prohibits employers from relying on an applicant’s wage or salary history to determine whether to make an offer of employment or to determine the individual’s wages or salary. Under the law, employers may not seek an applicant or employee’s wage or salary as a condition of being interviewed, considered for employme...

A client asked what to do about an email from an employee asking whether she was fired.  The employee emailed the CEO directly and advised that her manager had told her not to come in any more as of Monday because things were slow, but that if things picked up and they needed her, they would call her.  Her question was – am I fired? According to the manager, the employee was fired.  However, it is plain that the employee had not gotten that message.  The manager confirmed having relayed the message as stated by the employee but fe...

Companies are usually aware that they need to have internal reporting mechanisms in place for employees to report activities such as discriminatory conduct, unwanted sexual harassment, or actions that are retaliatory.  These reporting procedures need to include a person responsible for looking into the reports so that they are taken seriously, promptly investigated, and, if found to be credible, that steps are taken to end the improper and potentially unlawful actions. In a values-based company, policies are implemented that describe o...