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Common Questions

Switching Employee Exempt Status

Common customer question #10: We will soon be switching several employees from exempt to non-exempt. For the most part we’d like to keep their yearly ...

Common Questions

What to Expect if Your State or City Passes Paid Sick Leave

Common customer question #13: What should I expet if my state passes paid sick leave? While only five states and the District of Columbia have passed ...

Common Questions

How Do I Know Which FLSA Rules Apply to My Company?

Common customer question #8: How do I know if the FLSA applies to my company? Is there any exception for small employers? The Fair Labor Standards Act...

Common Questions

Do We Have to Pay an Employee for Work They Did While on Vacation?

Bonus customer question: A non-exempt employee has asked to be paid for the hour she spent checking work email while she was out on vacation. We didn’...

Human Capital Management Common Questions

When Exempt Status Is A Status Symbol

Employees who will be transitioned from an exempt to non-exempt classification because of the new FLSA overtime rules may resent the change in classif...

Payroll

Federal Law Alert: FLSA Changes Salary Minimums

Final FLSA White Collar Exemption Rules Announced Recently, the Department of Labor announced the new salary threshold for certain employees to qualif...

Common Questions

What Should I Do When Someone Changes Their Legal name?

Common customer Question #6: What Should I Do When Someone Changes Their Legal Name? Great question! There are a few administrative considerations whe...

Common Questions

Working with Summer Scheduling Challenges

With summer underway employees have more scheduling challenges than usual. Vacations, summertime child care concerns, and the desire to take advantage...

Common Questions

What Does the FLSA Say About Clocking In and Out?

Common customer question #5 Does it violate the FLSA to require a salaried, exempt employee to clock in and out? No, it doesn’t violate the FLSA to ha...

Common Questions

Which Employees Does the new FLSA rule affect?

Common customer question #4 Does the new FLSA rule affect all exempt employees? What about part-time employees? Effective December 1, 2016, the new ru...

Employee Benefits

Welcome to The M&H Exchange

For years, Moulton & Hardin has been collaborating with insurance companies in order to offer small to mid-sized companies more flexibility and cu...

salaries

What Should We Do about Salaries Between Two thresholds?

Common customer question #3: We have two currently salaried employees who make about $42,000 per year. However, with commissions, we estimate that the...