Employers have always needed to be vigilant about complying with immigration laws, most especially with federal I-9 forms and E-Verify...
You can generally require that an employee use their paid vacation time toward any time off they take.
The Department of Labor’s latest independent contractor ruling makes it much harder for employers to classify workers as independent contractors.
Let’s start with a basic rule of thumb: Don’t allow rumors about anyone sleeping with anyone else in your business...
“No, we didn’t do a background check on her before we hired her. She seemed like such a nice person.”...
Unfortunately, this HR Cinderella story isn’t nearly as romantic as the original, though it is a much more common tale:...
When an employee is terminated and seeks out legal counsel, one of the first questions they’ll need to answer is,...
You already know that it’s difficult to be an employer in the state of California. In fact, if you’re a...
When interviewing applicants, the best candidates will be looking at you as much as you'll be evaluating them. Prep for...
Happy employees make for a better, more productive workplace. It’s the type of thing that we all know implicitly, and...
You may recall us harping on how important it is to take responsibility for your own wage and hour compliance...
We recently ran a blog post about how automatically clocking your employees out for breaks can leave your business vulnerable...
We know employers across the country are confused about breaks. Maybe an employee has told you that you are required...
You’ve probably heard the phrase, “life is what happens when you’re making other plans”—and sometimes that applies to the workplace,...
Very few employers break employment laws on purpose. That would be crazy. Still, here at CEDR we’ve found that a...
