how to decide exempt vs nonexempt
Compensation

Exempt vs Nonexempt – How to Decide?

You’ve identified a need to hire someone to do a certain job, so how do you determine whether it’s an hourly or salaried job? The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) establishes the criteria for whether an employee is exempt vs. nonexempt. Nonexempt = not exempt from overtime. These jobs are usually hourly, and overtime must …

how to pay employees during time change for daylight savings time
Benefits Compensation

Should You Pay Employees for the Lost Daylight Savings Time Hour?

This Sunday, we’ll spring forward an hour for daylight savings time.  I think the states that have chosen to stick with one time are genius, but until I live in one of them, I’m stuck with time changes twice a year.  Daylight savings time begins at 2:00 a.m., at which point we lose an hour. …