Welcome to Legal Briefs for HR, an update on employment issues sent to over 4000 HR professionals, in-house counsel and business owners to help them stay in the know about employment issues. Anyone is welcome to join the email group . . . just let me know you?d like to be added to the list and you?re in! Back issues are posted on my firm?s website at www.munckcarter.com under E-Newsletter. A bi...More >>

# Heads? Up, New York ? Effective 10-26-09, employers in New York will need to provide all newly hired employees with written notice of the employee?s rate of pay and identify the normal paydays. Non-exempt workers must also be advised of their overtime rate of pay and employers must retain a signed written acknowledgment from each employee, upon hire, of receipt of this written notice. The noti...More >>

Welcome to Legal Briefs for HR, an update on employment issues sent to over 4000 HR professionals, in-house counsel and business owners to help them stay in the know about employment issues.  Anyone is welcome to join the email group . . . just let me know you?d like to be added to the list and you?re in!  Back issues are posted on my firm?s website at www.munckcarter.com under E-Newsletter.  Welc...More >>

6. Fair WARNing An amendment to the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act was filed on April 23 in Congress.  If passed, H.R. 2077  would expand notice requirements to include mass layoffs that occur at more than one site of an employer (instead of focusing on the ?single site? analysis) and increase penalties from ?back pay? to ?two times the amount of back pay.?  You can alwa...More >>