Roundup: Tax on overtime; Menopause accommodation; TRAP agreements; Employment law and fairness; Regulating AI; and This is the last newsletter.
Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review
Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.
Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics. She and Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com, also have a new book out on Pay Equity, Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity that Works!
This week we're asking these questions and even answering most of them:
- How do you figure tax on overtime now that federal law has changed?
- Can you accommodate menopause?
- Should employers charge employees for training?
- Why do we have employment laws?
- Can you regulate AI?
- What do you say when a big, fun project ends?
How Do Employers Accommodate Menopause?
It's great that Rhode Island is requiring employers to provide reasonable accommodations for menopause. But let's get real. What does that look like and is anybody ever going to be brave enough to ask for it?
Don't Charge Employees for Training
Providing training is part of having employees, particularly if you want them to have certain skills or abilities with specific software, tools, or other processes. It's a cost of doing business. We generally do not pass the cost of doing business onto the shoulders of employees.
Tax and Overtime: Thank Goodness for Payroll Providers
After HR 1, aka OBBBA, employees are kinda sorta not taxed on overtime wages. Except that Congress can't regulate state overtime. And it's the middle of the year and the rules are changing. So it's going to work as a tax deduction, but only for federal overtime wages. Here's why it's a flipping nightmare.
Money, Time, Safety and Fairness
When we boil employment law down to its essence, it's money, time, safety, and fairness. But it actually all fits under fairness. So, what does that mean?
Last One: With and Without AI
It's essential to monitor outcomes when AI is used, pretty much anywhere. I don't think that's enough though, because you actually have to do something when you find problems.
And this is the last newsletter. Thank you so much for reading!
