Category: Legal

Question: We pay a flat daily amount of $15 to our techs which we call a “travel fee.” Should this payment […]

How many times have you had a technician return from a service call and report an uncomfortable interaction with a […]

Question: Things seem to be calming down some, thank goodness, relating to COVID-19 and the avalanche of guidance and regulations and […]

Question: Is it legal to hire someone for 30 days as an independent contractor and then switch them to employee status […]

As soon as the nation began shutting down in response to the pandemic, America’s energy efficiency workforce – the biggest […]

Question: ​​I’m interested in hearing how I should handle employees NOT coming to work their first day with form(s) of […]

Question: Sometimes our company is busy; sometimes, not so much. We know we have to pay overtime for hours over […]

Question: Are piece rate/spiffs/commissions permitted to be paid as a bonus once per quarter? Can “incentive pay” be saved up and […]

Question:  Just wondering, I have a crew that is, I guess average. Normally they do okay. Recently for some reason, […]

Question: I have a question regarding paying an employee overtime.  Let’s say an employee has 43 hours owed him/her in a […]

Question: When you hire an older person, what might happen as their productivity become less? Is it fine to pre-establish […]

In today’s world, understanding the law of managing a workforce is vital to avoiding needless legal entanglements. From hiring, to […]