For decades, employers have rounded non-exempt employees’ work time when calculating their compensation. Maybe they have rounded employee work time to the nearest 10 minutes, maybe to the nearest quarter hour, but they done it and, generally, the courts have approved of it.
Our colleagues Michael S. Kun, Jeffrey H. Ruzal, and Kevin Sullivan at Epstein Becker Green co-wrote a “Wage and Hour Self-Audits Checklist” for the Lexis Practice Advisor.
The checklist identifies the main risk categories for wage and hour self-audits. To avoid potentially significant liability for wage and hour violations, employers should consider wage and hour self-audits to identify and close compliance gaps.
The magazine Energijos Erdvė published an article “Possibilities for new users of renewable energy resources restricted” by Karolis Vinciūnas, an associate of law firm TARK GRUNTE SUTKIENE.
Click here to read the publication (available in Lithuanian).
Robert E. McKenzie
Chicago Partner Robert E. McKenzie was featured in a May 23 article in the Dow Jones Advisor entitled “Keeping an eye out for illegal tax shelters” which addresses the sometimes blurred lines between an illegal tax shelter and a sophisticated tax strategy. The article was also picked up by the American Banker online publication. To read the article, click here.
McDonald Hopkins’ Member, Tom Zaino, was quoted in the May 2011 article, “Ohio Foreign-Trade Zones Create Ideal Business Location,” published by the Ohio Business Development Coalition.
http://www.ohiomeansbusiness.com/newsroom/press-releases/single-press-release.php?id=253