My last few posts have been about the legislative actions taken to assist employers and employees who are dealing with Covid-19 related issues. I thought it would be a good time for a change of pace. What better non-Covid-19 subject to address than one of the most enduring subjects of this blog, insurance certificates. However, […]
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Testing Employees for Covid-19
My last few posts have been about the new paid sick leave requirements imposed on businesses by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). Now that Governor Kemp has decided it’s safe to allow some businesses to reopen, I thought it would be appropriate to address what employers can and cannot do in determining the […]
Read more...Payment of Employees Under FFCRA – An Update
My last post provided a basic outline of the provisions of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”). Since that time, additional guidance has been provided by the U.S. Department of Labor (“USDOL”) and the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) that contradicts some of the things said about FFCRA in that post. The current interpretation of […]
Read more...Corona Virus – Payment of Employees Under FFCRA
My last post mainly concerned an employer’s obligation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) to pay their employees when they can’t come to work or the office is closed due to the Corona Virus outbreak. At the end, there was a brief explanation of the requirements imposed by a recently enacted federal law that […]
Read more...Corona Virus – Rules for Payment of Employees
Due to the relatively mild winters we have had here in Georgia the past two years, I have not felt the need to repost my article about the duty of agency owners to pay their employees when either they can’t come to work or the office is closed due to severe weather. However, the […]
Read more...New Overtime Rule Effective Date Announced
Last week the U.S. Department of Labor (USDOL) announced that the new salary level test for the administrative, executive, and professional employees exemptions from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) would become effective on January 1, 2020. On and after that date, for an employee to satisfy the requirements of […]
Read more...Video Surveillance of Office Interior-Is It Legal?
A couple of years ago, I wrote a post that discussed the legality of recording incoming and outgoing telephone calls made to and from an agency. The recording of such calls is legal if the requirements discussed in my post are satisfied. I recently received a question from an IIAG member on the Free […]
Read more...Data Breaches – What Your Agency Can Do To Protect Itself
It seems like every few weeks there is a report of another massive data breach at a well known company. Toyota, Dunkin Donuts, and Walmart are just some companies that have reported data breaches of one kind or another this year. However, what does not get reported publicly are the thousands of data breaches that […]
Read more...IIAG Annual Convention – What You Missed
In addition to a lot of rain, those who did not attend IIAG’s annual convention this past weekend on Hilton Head Island missed a great presentation on traffic safety, important information about new services available to members, some good tips on how to protect your agency from cyber attack, and an informative and lively speech […]
Read more...Do Interns Have To Be Paid?
With high schools and colleges nearing the end of this academic year, I thought it would be a good time to remind my readers of the rules regarding whether an intern must be paid at least the federal minimum wage for all the hours he or she works. In my post last year on this […]
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