A shift differential provides an increased rate of pay for a person working a specific shift outside of normal business hours. For example, nurses may get paid a shift differential for working overnight shifts. While […]
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Some people believe that employees are no longer eligible for overtime if they get paid a salary. This isn’t always the case, and employees and employers need to know why. The following four scenarios are
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The state of Pennsylvania does not require employers to offer PTO, sick time, vacation, bereavement, or other forms of leave. However, multiple cities in Pennsylvania do have their own sick leave laws. Pittsburgh and Philedelpiha
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Unpaid time off is when an employee takes time away from work and doesn’t get paid. Can employers deny unpaid time off requests? In most cases, yes. The main exception to this is if your
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Wisconsin employers must pay out unused PTO if their PTO policy does not include a forfeiture clause. In other words, if you added a clause to your PTO policy that says you won’t pay out
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Minnesota employers are not required to offer PTO to employees. But there is a sick leave law that you need to follow. Employers are required to: There’s lots of details and some exceptions related to
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Full-time salaried employees get 16 PTO days in the first year and 21 days in the second year. So a little over 4 weeks in the second year. Part-time hourly employees at Amazon get about
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In most cases, you’ll earn PTO while on PTO. If you take 2 weeks off, you’ll earn the same amount of PTO at your next pay period that you always do. Assuming you’re on an
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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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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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