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Posts from: October 2016

Are you ready to start paying your salaried employees overtime?

Author: Jan Fernandez Posted: October 21, 2016

A Department of Labor (DOL) final rule is getting ready to increase the salary threshold for overtime exemptions to $47,476, with is almost double what it currently is today. The House of Representative passed a H.R. 6094 which would delay this but it would also need to be passed by the Senate and approved by the president before it becomes las and the President has threatened to veto the bill. What does that mean to […]

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From The Blog - The Chamber of Commerce – Business Helping Business

While employed with a prior company, I had asked about joining the local chamber of commerce to get to know the businesses around town. My employer overwhelmingly pooh-poohed the idea. Their opinion was that the chamber wasn’t really out to help business, they were more of a political front for their own agenda. A few years later I started working at Rapport Benefits Group and noticed a Chamber sticker in our window. When I asked […]