Paid Time Off Around the World

May 25, 2012

The United Sates Federal government offers Federal employees 9 paid holidays plus sick and vacation leave based on tenure. But the United States mandates no such benefit for public workers.

This is in stark contrast to other OECD countries (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development).

The United States is the only OECD nation which does not mandate paid leave and holidays for its workers. The Harvard Law School calls us the No Vacation Nation. Just look how the US compares to other countries.

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Calculating Vacation Time Based on Hours Worked

May 16, 2012

There are a lot of ways to offer accruals to your employees. Probably the most common is to give them their whole lump sum at the beginning of the year or anniversary date. But there are other ways to calculate accruals too.

For employees who may not be long termers you can add time to their bank on a monthly or biweekly basis. Or, if you just like being super accurate, you can add time based on the actual number of hours they work.

Accruals By Hours Worked

This accrual rate is particularly great for employees who work a variable number of hours per year. If the employee is entitled to 2 weeks vacation each year, but ends up taking several weeks off for medical leave or something else, you may want the accrued vacation hours to reflect that time spent away from work. Likewise, if your employee puts in extra hours, you might want him to be compensated for that extra time with a little extra vacation time.

Calculating accruals by hours worked offers this flexibility. But calculating it isn’t as easy as just throwing it all into the bank at the beginning of the year…
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Saving Time and Money with the Right Website Developer

May 10, 2012

Guest post by: Fred J. Cohen


We’ve all heard the saying, “time is money” and for busy professionals like attorneys and accountants, juggling overloaded schedules filled with client meetings, court dates and administrative tasks, this is an undeniable reality.  Many professionals, struggle to find the perfect balance between billable work and non-billable tasks like marketing which can require a great deal of time and resources.

To help reduce the amount of time needed for a successful marketing campaign, it’s important that firms work with marketing experts who understand their specific industries. This is especially important when it comes to selecting a website development team as the site should serve as the cornerstone of the firm’s online marketing campaign and must be continuously updated as the practice grows and evolves.

There are a lot of options when it comes to site developers; they include quick do-it-yourself companies, local freelance designers and large corporations which seem to have designed half of the cookie-cutter professional sites you’ve come across in your search. With so many vendors vying for your business it’s important that you consider the following factors to save you time and money when selecting a website developer:

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California Meal Break Lawsuit

May 2, 2012

The California Supreme Court recently ruled to ease up on meal break laws.

As a manager, you probably know how difficult it can be to enforce meal breaks – telling your employees to take them is one thing, actually ensuring that it happens is another. Proponents of the meal break law argue that without it, employers may take advantage of their employees by making them work long hours without a break.

Now, after years of having the California meal break in place to support the employee, judges have rescinded the law in favor of the employer.

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National Labor Relations Act Compliance

April 16, 2012

On April 30th of this year businesses must be compliant with the new National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by posting the new posters.

Failure to do so does not necessarily result in a violation. However, if the employer “knowingly and willfully fails to post the notice, that failure may be considered evidence of unlawful motive in an unfair labor practice case involving other alleged violations of the NLRA,” according to the NLRB’s FAQ on the ruling.

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