Employers – Pay Your Employees Timely or Be Prepared to Pay the Price In a recent, precedent setting decision, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts has determined that Employers who are subject to the Massachusetts Wage Act must pay treble damages (i.e. 3 times the original amount owed… Read More

Background On March 18, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. FFCRA created a mandate for employers to provide up to 80 hours of Emergency Paid Sick leave to employees is they could not perform essential duties due to quarantine orders or their own COVID… Read More

For those New Hampshire municipalities operating on a fiscal year budget, most did not see significant declines in revenue in the way of unpaid property taxes when collections took place for the first half of the year. However, both state and local officials are anticipating the amount of uncollected property… Read More

Photo by LinkedIn Sales Navigator from Pexels As unemployment benefits shrink and businesses navigate the task of reopening, many workers are returning to work for the first time since the start of shutdowns in March. All too many of them are also struggling with fears of possible workplace exposures as… Read More

Business in the time of COVID-19 Whether you were an essential business that stayed open throughout the mandatory state closures, are a business that recently opened under new restrictive guidelines or are one of the companies still trying to weigh the pros and cons of opening in these uncertain times,… Read More

As the Coronavirus, also known as COVID-19, continues to spread across the globe and now within the United States, many business owners are worried about the impacts it could have on their workforce and overall operations. If you are scrambling to put a Business Continuity / Contingency Plan in place… Read More

If you are like most employers, your HR and management teams make a concerted effort to ensure your employees receive regular feedback and performance reviews on a timely basis. Assessing people and their performance can be challenging, but employers see the benefit in both employee engagement… Read More

As many companies face their year-end crunch, many employees are facing a critical crunch of their own under their employer’s Use-It-or-Lose-It PTO policy. And with employers grappling with workforce shortages, existing employees are left shouldering greater workloads and that extra work can make it seem like there is no feasible… Read More

Almost every employer has been faced with trying to solve the eternal puzzle of how to correct missed employee time punches and what to do about them. Whether employees forget to clock in at the start or to clock out at the end of their shift or fail to punch… Read More

As an company owner, HR representative and/or workforce supervisor, there are many undesirable challenges that come with managing people.  Sometimes things like finding the words to address an employee’s body odor, having to solve personality conflicts that remind one of being back in high school or terminating a single employee… Read More