The mere mention of internal control often conjures images of red tape and bureaucracy preventing people from getting things done. And understandably so, the word control is right there in the name, and generally people don’t like things that try to influence or direct their behavior. Unfortunately, internal control has gotten a bad rap as a necessary evil that disrupts...
Published 5/24/2016 In July 2015, President Obama and the Department of Labor announced preliminary changes to the federal overtime rules. After much anticipation by employees and employers alike, the final rule was uploaded to the Federal Register website on May 18, 2016. These overtime rule changes are expected to affect 4.2 million workers and cost employers about $12 billion over the...
Critics of the Department of Labor's overtime rule changes, which were proposed last July, hoped that the new rules would never become a reality. Whether you are a proponent of the changes or not, get ready because they are on the way, and soon. If the changes in the originally proposed rules stand, it is estimated that as many as 5 million U.S. worker who were previously...
Published July, 2015 A standard workweek is typically thought of as 40 hours, though many employees spend much more time than that at work. Employees who work more than 40 hours a week must be paid overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act unless they meet certain exemption criteria. In very general terms, aside from jobs that are classified as exempt...
My middle school daughter has a new word: Confuzzled. She is confuzzled by her algebra homework, confuzzled as to why I won’t let her have ice cream before dinner, and confuzzled that there was once a time when you had to answer the phone without knowing who was on the other end. Urbandictionary.com says that confuzzled is a merge of...
Security in a cloud based computing environment is at the forefront of concerns for enterprises. Cyber security is a risk to any organization that relies heavily on data, and this is compounded by regulatory issues that organizations face. Legal compliance and privacy are two significant risks associated with cloud data breaches. Cloud Compliance Companies that maintain Personally Identifiable Information (PII) are under...