People First

This is an interesting one because in this case, the employee is right. The supervisor really should have set down with the employee and said, okay, we’re giving you an extra project and now your workload is such that you don’t see you’re able to finish it within the 40 hours that you typically work....

This is an interesting discussion that the supervisor had with the employee because what she is asking reflects on the Portal to Portal act, which is a piece of legislation that explains how you pay employees for time, personal time when they are traveling. And so in this case, the employee, depending upon whether they’re...

This is an interesting video. ’cause you look at it and you go, okay, so employees are asking for money. Well, that violates the solicitation policy that the company should have in their handbook that everybody should have signed off on having received solicitation. Policies are in handbooks and are implemented in a company to...

This really is a shock. This is the fact that, again, HR should be involved and employees should be trained on how to discuss performance, whether it be positive or negative. I always say it’s like a cookie. You have a positive, then you talk the negative, but you end with a positive. This coworker,...

Well, there’s a lot to unpack in this, in this particular video. First of all, HR needs to be involved. A company that does not, that has an HR department as the supervisor mentioned but not involve them is trouble. The employee should have been given a job description with the new duties and the...

W2 or 1099, which one is legal for you? Got a call from a client just starting out and they’re going to be having folks work for, for them for just a few hours a week, maybe a couple of days a week. So they thought they could pay them as an independent contractor. That’s...

Garnishment notices got you down, let’s talk. So a client was served with a garnishment from a court. It was a court order, and they didn’t know what they were supposed to do. So the process is the employer can be held liable for that amount of money that that employee’s being garnished if they...

The tax man cometh and he taketh away. I had a client ask me, “how often can an employee change their income withholding taxes?” In other words, providing another W4 to change their deductions on their paycheck. Technically, whenever the employee wants to. So it’s whenever they have, they wanna make a change. But what...

Workers’ comp is a race against the clock. Wanna win? Listen up. So I had a client who called me the other day and asked about an employee who was driving to a client’s location and they were in a car accident and they were injured. And my client asked, “does that fall under workers’...

Worried that your next hire’s gonna leave you on the hook? So I had a client who said to me, “I don’t need to do background checks. You never get the right information anyway.” Well, I got news for them and I told them, you can still get in trouble because there’s what’s called negligent...