Georgia doesn’t have any PTO laws, you can offer any PTO policy you like. Or none at all. But you do want to pay attention to the Georgia Family Care Act, which was signed into […]
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The law states that employees who are not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must be paid overtime if they work more than 40 hours in a workweek. But what if your company
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A redundancy payment is a lump sum given to an employee after a company makes their position redundant (the role gets eliminated). The US doesn’t have any labor laws that require redundancy pay, but the
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To me, Walmart’s bereavement leave policy is terrible. Every employee at Walmart gets 3 days if the person that passed away is on their list of approved relatives for bereavement. Some folks will say this
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If you offer paid vacation in Colorado, you must pay out unused PTO. Colorado is quite adamant that PTO cannot be forfeited for any reason. Once employees get PTO, you can’t take it away. As
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Nevada law requires that companies with 50 or more employees provide at least 0.01923 hours of PTO for every hour they work, up to 40 hours per benefit year. So a full-time, salaried employee would
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Hours from PTO do not count towards overtime. This is because overtime pay only applies to the hours you actually work. PTO hours aren’t classified as hours worked. If an employee works 48 hours during
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A PTO blackout is a period where employees can’t take time off work. Any PTO request that’s submitted during this period gets denied. Companies will use PTO blackouts during: Currently, there’s no federal law that
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I wish I could tell you that every employee will manage their PTO and won’t try to take more than they’ve earned. But that has not been my experience. Negative PTO can happen in lump-sum
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Employers need to report all wages earned by their employees to the IRS, even if they have just one employee. But did you know that if you hire someone as a household worker and pay
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