Compensation & Benefits
Former Groupon sales representative claims overtime
Submitted by katarzyna.gorska on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 09:55A former Groupon sales representative is seeking class action status for claims that she and other inside salespeople were not paid overtime, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. Ranita Dailey’s lawsuit alleges the company didn’t pay overtime to any inside salespeople, from its founding three years ago until March 2011. The lawsuit also claims that Groupon -- in attempts to resolve the issue -- improperly calculated overtime payments due, basing them only on employee salaries, rather than on salaries and commissions.
Overtime pay for US Open umpires at issue
Submitted by katarzyna.gorska on Fri, 09/16/2011 - 09:53Claiming they were misclassified as independent contractors, four US Open umpires have filed a class action lawsuit against the US Tennis Association seeking overtime pay, Bloomberg reports.
Cowdrick Meeting - telepresence option
Submitted by marykate.parrish on Tue, 01/04/2011 - 16:51Event Date:
Fri, 11/11/2011 (All day)
Location:
NYC
Nita Beecher on Capitol Hill to Discuss Paycheck Fairness
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Wed, 11/10/2010 - 09:57Tomorrow WON compliance leader Nita Beecher will be on Capitol Hill on a panel discussing the proposed Paycheck Fairness Act. She joins a distinguished group, including former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao, invited to analyze the costs of the bill and its effects on employment from the economic, legal, and small business perspectives, and she will provide WON members a briefing on the discussions later this week.
Compensation Compliance
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Mon, 06/28/2010 - 13:24Closing the Gap on Unfair Pay
Employers need to act now to make sure their pay practices don’t discriminate; ORC Worldwide can help
47 Year Anniversary of Equal Pay Act, Yet Wage Gap Still Persists
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 08:44On June 10, 1963, President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act. When the Equal Pay Act passed, women earned, on average, 60 cents for every dollar earned by men. Today, women in the United States earn 77 cents to every dollar earned by men. For African American and Latina women the gap is even larger. In a statement honoring the anniversary, President Obama said, "All women - and their families - deserve equal pay.
Complimentary Compensation Compliance Seminar: Risk Management in the New “Era of Enforcement”
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 08:36ORC’s compensation and employment law experts will teach compensation, equality and diversity, and compliance professionals the ins and outs of new U.S. legislation and enforcement strategies and how to ensure the protection of their organizations against claims of pay discrimination or misclassification of jobs. The full day agenda will include sessions on recent and pending legislation, how changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act may affect your job classifications, and a “Parking Lot” discussion when participants can get answers to their questions and share best practices.
Featured Practice: Review Compensation Processes to Ensure Nondiscrimination
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Tue, 06/15/2010 - 08:34As many human resources professionals in the U.S. know by now, recent federal activity has increased employers’ compliance responsibilities. In last month’s Sightlines, we reviewed many of these changes, including the passing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and the increase of resources at the EEOC and Department of Labor focused on uncovering systemic pay discrimination.
Maricopa County to Pay $2M in Back Wages
Submitted by Eleanor Shemesh on Thu, 06/03/2010 - 15:03The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors and the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office in Phoenix have agreed to pay overtime back wages totaling $2,059,807 to 1,690 detention officers and sergeants for uncompensated pre-shift meeting time. An investigation conducted by the Wage and Hour Division found that, beginning in 2007, the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office attempted to reduce overtime expenses, leaving the time for pre-shift meetings off the official paid time recorded for detention officers and sergeants at six facilities. The back wages were computed for these 1,690 workers
Recommended Actions to Ensure Compliance
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Mon, 05/10/2010 - 23:00In light of substantially increased compliance risk, employers should identify and review their most important HR processes to ensure compliance with antidiscrimination and other requirements.
