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		<title>HR Fact Friday: NLRB Poster Deadline Postponed Again</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2012/01/06/hr-fact-friday-nlrb-poster-deadline-postponed-again/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 19:27:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently imposed a new requirement that employers post a notice to employees informing them of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).  The new NLRB requirement was supposed to take effect as of November 14, 2011 but that deadline was later delayed until January 31, 2012.  The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>You Can&#8217;t Take it Back: Social Media Risks</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/12/13/you-cant-take-it-back-social-media-risks/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/12/13/you-cant-take-it-back-social-media-risks/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 15:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ll admit that when it comes to keeping up with celebrity gossip, I’m a bit of an amateur.  Still, I was relieved when Ashton Kutcher decided to give Twitter a break after he shared his feelings about Joe Paterno’s firing. Twitter is a powerful social networking tool because it can get the sender (your best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FLSA Question of the Week &#8211; Do I Need to Pay Non-Exempt Employees if they Work Unauthorized Overtime?</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/12/05/flsa-question-of-the-week-do-i-need-to-pay-non-exempt-employees-if-they-work-unauthorized-overtime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/12/05/flsa-question-of-the-week-do-i-need-to-pay-non-exempt-employees-if-they-work-unauthorized-overtime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Dec 2011 12:00:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now, we all have seen the headlines of increased staff in the Department of Labor’s Wage &#38; Hour Division.  This is to be interpreted as ramped up scrutiny and audits in the classification of employees and how they are paid.  Therefore, I’m continuing my blog this week with a question that is asked frequently. “Do I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HR Fact Friday: Employment Termination 101</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/11/11/hr-fact-friday-employment-termination-101/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/11/11/hr-fact-friday-employment-termination-101/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 11:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discipline & Termination]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[No one likes to do it, but pretty much everyone has to do it once it a while.  There probably are lots of things about which this statement is true, but certainly for employers it is true about having to fire an employee.  There are many questions regarding what legal risks there are related to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Weekly Wednesday Acronym:  Correcting Misclassifications through the VCSP &#8211; What&#8217;s this all About?</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/09/28/weekly-wednesday-acronym-correcting-misclassifications-through-the-vcsp-whats-this-all-about/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/09/28/weekly-wednesday-acronym-correcting-misclassifications-through-the-vcsp-whats-this-all-about/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:55:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Independent contractor or employee.  It is a decision that many employers have to make when setting up new hires.  Sometimes it is a fine line to determine which side of the fence your “worker” is on, and there are certainly financial benefits of classifying workers as independent contractors. Evidently the IRS believes this is a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Narrowing the Pay Gap</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/08/11/narrowing-the-pay-gap/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 19:56:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Olivia</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Labor Department’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs wants your opinion. The OFCCP is currently considering developing a new data tool that will collect salary and benefit information paid to employees of federal contractors and subcontractors. The tool would ideally improve the OFCCP’s ability to gather the data that is used to search [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Breaking News&#8230;Wal-Mart wins in Supreme Court Decision</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/06/20/breaking-news-wal-mart-wins-in-supreme-court-decision/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/06/20/breaking-news-wal-mart-wins-in-supreme-court-decision/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jun 2011 17:03:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compliance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Discrimination]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Breaking News… The Supreme Court has blocked a sexual discrimination class action lawsuit representing 1.6 million women against Wal-Mart.  The justices agreed that the lawsuit cannot proceed as a class action in its current form.  This reversed a decision by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.  What’s next for the women [...]]]></description>
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		<title>IRS – Relief for Small Employers</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/06/01/irs-%e2%80%93-relief-for-small-employers/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/06/01/irs-%e2%80%93-relief-for-small-employers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 11:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Yes, it’s true!  We usually don’t see the word “relief” associated with “IRS”, so keep reading.  The IRS has issued interim guidance concerning the Affordable Care Act (ACA) which is going to provide relief for small employers.  You may recall that effective for tax years beginning after December 31, 2010, employers are required to report on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wal-Mart Case</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/05/09/the-wal-mart-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/05/09/the-wal-mart-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 11:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Legal Issues]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The largest employment class action lawsuit in history was heard by the Supreme Court the end of March, 2011.  This all began in 1999 after Stephanie Odle, an assistant manager, discovered she was making $10k less than a male counterpart with the same title who had less experience. After filing a complaint, she was fired. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gender-Based Wage Gap Persists, Experts Agree at EEOC Forum</title>
		<link>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/05/02/gender-based-wage-gap-persists-experts-agree-at-eeoc-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://www.hrnblog.com/2011/05/02/gender-based-wage-gap-persists-experts-agree-at-eeoc-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 May 2011 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joyce</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Compensation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gender-based wage discrimination remains a problem today and a percentage of the wage discrepancy cannot be explained by non-discriminatory factors, said government and private experts at a public forum held on April 28, 2011 at the headquarters of the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).  The forum was one of 24 such events the EEOC [...]]]></description>
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