Roundup: Part time employees and overtime; State WARN laws; Anxiety and the ADA; Marriage, divorce and benefits; State employment laws pushing back
Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review
Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.
Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics. She and Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com, also have a new book out on Pay Equity, Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity that Works!
This week we're asking these questions and even answering some of them:
- Can you pro-rate hours for determining exemption from overtime and salary thresholds?
- How will changes to state WARN laws affect coming layoffs?
- Is anxiety a disability under the ADA?
- What happens to benefits when employees don't tell HR they got divorced?
- How are states pushing back on changes to federal policy?
Are Part Time Employees Exempt From Overtime?
When employees who would otherwise meet the duties requirements for exemption from overtime work part time, the big issue is whether they meet both state and federal salary thresholds..
Changes to State WARN Laws May Affect Layoffs
Most WARN laws require 60 days' notice. Some are even longer. But if you give people a long notice before they are laid off, they start leaving before the employer is ready and things begin to fall apart.
Anxiety, Life and the ADA
In order for anxiety to qualify as a disability under the ADA, it takes a medical diagnosis for starters. Here's more from Parker Poe.
Love and Benefits
Both employers and employees need to understand how relationship changes can affect their benefits. Here's a great explanation of how divorce affects health benefits and what employers need to know and do from Bricker Graydon.
Watch States for New Employment Laws
Employers continue to have a legal obligation to provide a discrimination and harassment free workplace and comply with the actual laws. Also, expect to see (at least some) states enact additional protections for employees. We're starting to see this happening already.
