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What is a Third Party Over Action?
Assume an employee suffers an accidental workplace injury. After collecting benefits under his employer’s workers’ compensation insurance policy, the employee tries to get more money by filing a...
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How Can Safety Reduce Workers’ Compensation Insurance Premiums?
Workers’ compensation insurance provides indemnity and medical benefits to employees injured on the job. Many states, including Florida, set the premiums for workers’ compensation insurance, so...
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Office Holiday Parties: Revel without Regret
Many employers consider a company-wide holiday celebration an excellent opportunity for employees to mingle socially and get to know one another better. It’s also a chance for senior management to...
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EEOC Releases 2014 Enforcement and Litigation Data
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing various federal equal employment opportunity laws. Every year the EEOC releases information about its enforcement and...
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What Are the Costliest and Most Common Small Business Claims?
Running a successful small business requires more than the ability to generate revenue. It also requires the ability to avoid (or at least limit) losses. Though revenue can make a business blossom,...
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New White Collar FLSA Overtime Rules Are Here! Will You Be Ready By The...
They’re heeeere. No, not a poltergeist, though for many they may be just as unsettling. We’re talking about the new minimum wage and overtime exemption regulations for white collar employees under the...
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Now What? Preparing for the New FLSA White Collar Overtime Exemptions
On December 1, 2016, it will be more expensive for employers to take advantage of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) so-called white collar overtime exemptions. Since FLSA violations have always...
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Gender Identity and Sex Stereotyping Under the Affordable Care Act
Did you know that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) contains a civil rights provision? The ACA prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, age or disability in certain...
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Florida’s Minimum Wage Will Be Going Up In 2017
On January 1, 2017, Florida's minimum wage will be going up five cents to $8.10 per hour. The minimum wage for tipped employees, which is in addition to tips, is also going up five cents to $5.08 per...
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Federal Judge Blocks New White-Collar Overtime Regulations
A federal judge in Texas has blocked the Fair Labor Standards Act's new white-collar overtime exemption regulations. Ten days before their effective date, District Court Judge Amos Mazzant issued a...
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