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...Author: admin
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 […]
Read more...Volunteer Activities-Is An Employer Reponsible For Compensating Employees Who Participate?
The Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor has been very busy so far this year. My last post was about its proposed new rule on the amount of salary that must be paid for employees to be exempt from the overtime pay requirements as an administrative, executive, professional, or highly compensated […]
Read more...New Overtime Rule Proposed
A few weeks ago, the U.S. Department of Labor (“USDOL”) issued a proposed new rule regarding the requirements that must be met for certain employees to be exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The 60 day comment period for that rule will expire in mid-May, after which time […]
Read more...UGA Risk Management Program Maintains #1 Ranking
Congratulations are again in order for the University of Georgia’s Risk Management and Insurance program. It has been ranked as the number 1 such program in the country by U.S. News and World Report. That was the case in 2015 when I last did a post on this subject and according to the college’s […]
Read more...What Law Governs Restrictive Covenants?
Since last week’s post dealt with the above question regarding the sharing of commissions, I thought it would be a good idea to address that question with respect to restrictive covenants. With many insurance agencies now conducting business in more than one state, how to protect an agency’s customers in other states from the solicitation […]
Read more...What Law Governs Sharing of Commissions?
I received a call on the Free Legal Service Program I operate for members of the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia that raised the above question. It was one I had never considered before. Most of the questions I receive from agents using that program revolve around ways to compensate people who do not have […]
Read more...