Compensation and Benefits

State and Local Wage Laws

Although the federal minimum wage standard is the default minimum wage for states, some states opt to pay employees a higher minimum wage than the f...

FLSA Protection

All employers must pay covered employees no less than the current federal minimum wage, which is $7.25 per hour effective July 24, 2009. Regardles...

Workers Compensation

Workers’ compensation, otherwise known as worker’s comp, is a program providing employees who are injured or sickened while on the job an income...

Unemployment Insurance

Unemployment insurance, or unemployment compensation or UI, helps unemployed workers maintain some level of income while in between jobs. The fede...

Filing for Unemployment

Each individual state follows their own computation system when offering unemployed workers benefits. Across the board, each state will have mini...

Employee Benefits and Insurance

Without employees, companies could hardly function let alone meet requirements. Hence, companies compensate their efforts by giving benefits...

COBRA Insurance Coverage

COBRA laws were enacted to protect workers in the event their insurance coverage abruptly ended, leaving them without any healthcare coverage. The...

Health Insurance

Currently, there is no federal law mandating employers to provide employees with health insurance coverage. Statistics from the United States Cen...

COBRA Payments

Beginning February 17, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which is a recently enacted stimulus package, will offer a subsidy for COBR...

FMLA Updates

Effective Jan. 16th, 2009, the United States Department of Labor issued new rules regarding the Family and Medical Leave Act. The new regulations wer...

Insurance Coverage for the Disabled

The ADA, or Americans with Disability Act, and the MHPA, or Mental Health Parity Act, works to help protect the rights of all disabled individuals d...