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HR Carnival

July 30, 2014

Summer is carefree and relaxed – anything goes.  Keeping in the theme of a carefree summer, the topics for this month’s carnival are varied, but thought provoking and informative.  The summer kicked off with World Cup Fever.  With Germany winning it all, Wally Bock of Envisa Learning looks at the German leadership development program and […]

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Do’s and Don’ts of summer dress codes from head to toe

July 8, 2014

It may be air conditioned in the office, but summer still brings out the widest array of attire by employees.  To be sure you can keep your cool when it comes to enforcing office dress code policies, follow these do’s and don’ts. Do:  Know that you have the power to set the rules and enforce them. Dress […]

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Ask Dave HR Legal Compliance – FLSA & Overtime

May 12, 2014

Question:  I have employees who need the money and want to work overtime, but I cannot afford to pay them overtime. A group of them have approached me and said that they will agree in writing to be paid straight time and not take 1.5 times their regular hourly rate for hours over 40, they just […]

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Is There A Place For Social Media In HR

April 22, 2013

At this point, I think it’s fair to say we’ve all accepted that our employees are going to be on social media, whether it’s Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, or whatever else is the new fad.  Early on in the outbreak of social media there was a tendency for Human Resources to say, “not my area, […]

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Ask Dave – HR Legal Compliance

March 4, 2013

Question: We have employees that occasionally drive between our local offices during the day. One employee claims that he should be getting reimbursed for mileage between offices because he is using his own car, is he right? Answer: Yes, in Massachusetts.  The answer will depend on what state you are in. 455 CMR 2.03(4)(b) requires […]

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HR Policies: Social Media & Satisfying The NLRB – Worth the Effort?

February 25, 2013

How much value do you place in your organization’s social media policy? Enough to go toe-to-toe with the National Labor Relations Board? Is the benefit to having such a HR policy now outweighed by the difficulty of meeting the NLRB’s lofty standards on this subject?  Is compliance just too hard? Increasingly, employers are asking themselves […]

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Legal HR Update – Pay Compliance

January 31, 2013

Ask Dave – Question: I am a receptionist at my job and I fought my way through the snow drifts to get to work last week and when I arrived I found the office was closed for the day. I just got my paycheck and my employer paid me for three hours of work at $8.00 […]

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Drawing a Picture of HR in 2013

January 28, 2013

The Human Resource function has come a long way from the days of being called “Personnel” where we merely pushed paper on carbon copy forms (yes, I realize I may be dating myself).  At that time, the primary function was generating a paper trail of employee activity.  HR was an administrative function – a canvas […]

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Employment Law – What are the Rights of Transgender Employees?

September 6, 2012

Question: We are a Massachusetts employer and have an employee Sam who worked for us for 10 years. Recently he came to the HR Director and said that after he returns from his two week vacation, he will be Samantha and wants to be treated as female. He will dress as a female and wants to be […]

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Ask Dave – Paying Nonexempt Employees

July 30, 2012

Question: I want to pay all my employees on the 15th and the 30th of the month, but my hourly employees say I have to pay them every two weeks. Are they right? describe the image Answer: Yes, you may pay your exempt employee twice a month, but in Massachusetts c. 149 section 148 requires […]

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