Roundup: Year-end employment law checklist; Conflict at work; Home office expenses; Employee handbooks; Employment terminations

NEWSLETTER VOLUME 1.33

December 25, 2023

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.

 

This week we're answering the questions:

  • Can you make a year-end employment law checklist using Taylor Swift lyrics?
  • How can we solve problems instead of just taking sides?
  • Do employers have to pay for remote employees' phones and internet?
  • Do you really want to know if remote employees are traveling the country in a van?
  • Why are employee handbooks so awful?
  • Is it worse to fire someone and risk a claim or let them stay?
December 19th, 2023
If you are a Swiftie, you will enjoy this post way more than if not. But even those of us who live under a rock when it comes to pop music will benefit from a great list of employment law issues to review before the new year.
December 20th, 2023
Employers can ask employees to focus on work at work and have rules about distracting others and creating drama. And when employees disrupt the work environment after being asked to cut it out, then discipline or termination may be the right decision.
December 21th, 2023
Do employers have to reimburse employees for their phone and internet when they work remote? Sometimes. It depends on state law where the employee is working.
If you have people traveling the country in vans, it's pretty much a complete cluster. Please seek professional help. Therapy may be more effective than legal advice.
December 22th, 2023
Employee handbooks are there to cover employers' butts. This is apparent the minute you look at one. This is also why nobody looks at them. We do not want to spend our one wild and precious life reading policy manuals.
December 25th, 2023
Which is worse? Firing someone and risking a claim or not firing them and risking the consequences of that? Address your workplace and work environment first and don't let difficult and unproductive people drag the rest of your team down.

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