People Risk Management Today

Question We’ve hired someone to help out with some end-of-year tasks, and they’ll be leaving shortly after the new year. Can we pay them as an independent contractor since the...

Question What is the minimum amount of time that a salaried exempt employee must work to be paid for the entire day? Answer If an exempt employee does any work,...

Question Given the COVID-19 pandemic, should we cancel our annual holiday party? Answer We would certainly recommend not having an in-person event this year, which could put your company, employees,...

Question Our appearance policy has not been well-enforced in the past but requires all employees to be clean-shaven. One of our employees says he cannot shave his beard due to...

Question Can we require that employees give notice before quitting? Answer Requiring departing employees to give notice could jeopardize their at-will status (if applicable). To avoid this, we recommend requesting...

Question We recently hired an older individual whose start date is next Monday, but I would like to push back their start date because we’ve just had an employee test...