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Counting the Hours: What Is Compensable?
Under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), you must pay workers subject to minimum wage rules for the time that work is performed. This ... -
Environmental, Social, Governance (ESG) Reporting for Your Business?
Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting is a report a business generates about its environmental, social, and governance impact. It’s usually done by public companies ... -
What’s a Registered Agent and Do You Need One?
If your business is a corporation—whether a regular C corporation or an S corporation—you may want or need to use a registered agent. The same ... -
Recovery Strategies: Getting Out of Your Commercial Lease
The pandemic made a seismic shift in where workers work. Many companies now allow or require employees to work from home on a regular basis ... -
Can or Should You Use Noncompete Agreements
Noncompete agreements are legal contracts between a business and another person—typically an employee or independent contractor—to bar a worker to compete with the business. Noncompete ... -
Disconnecting from Work
With more employees continuing to work from home, the lines between work and personal hours can easily become blurred. Business calls, texts, and email are ... -
Breaking Up Isn’t Hard to Do When an Owner Wants Out
When you go into business with others, things don’t always work out as anticipated. Co-owners can disagree about the direction of the business and, as ... -
Avoiding Hidden Legal Traps
Just about anything you do or say, or anything you don’t do or say, is potentially problematic from a legal perspective. There are so many ... -
New Revisions to Your Drug Policy for Marijuana
This area of the law is changing rapidly and making it challenging for employers to fix their workplace polices. A year ago, our blog addressed many ... -
Privacy Issues in the Age of COVID-19
Privacy issues concern your employees, your customers, and your company information. While the pandemic is waning, many of the business practices adopted in the past ... -
New Business Terminology Impacting Your Business Policies
During 2020, many businesses were in survival mode, focusing attention on how to get by during the lockdowns and other restrictions they faced. This left ... -
American Made — What Does It Mean?
“America” includes all of the Western Hemisphere, and North America is the United States, Canada, and Mexico. So “American made” is a nebulous term. There ... -
Preparing for Economic Changes: Closing Your Books for 2020
2020 has come to an end. If you are still in business, congratulations. The statistics on small business closures are grim. Yelp found that 60% ... -
Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021: What’s in It for You?
On December 27, 2020, a massive new law was signed by the President to fund the federal government through the end of fiscal year 2021 ... -
Shoplifting: 5 Actions to Address the Problem
Last year, there were over a million shoplifting cases reported, with an average of $318 lost in each incident. But these are only the cases ... -
In D.C. It's Out with the Old and In with the New: What it Means ...
What a new administration means for small business This year’s election results mean changes…a new administration and a new Congress. What affect this will have ... -
Business Owner’s Documents Review: Estate Planning Issues
“[I]n this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes.” – Benjamin Franklin COVID-19 has resulted in nearly 290,000 deaths in the U.S. in 2020. ... -
Dress Codes Are Dead?
That’s what the New York Times said in a piece in the Fashion & Style section in May entitled The End of the Office Dress ...
