How would you feel if you received nada on payday? That was the reality for close to 1,600 Detroit employees who were either not paid or worse, had money accidentally deducted from their paychecks, Friday, August 5th. According to The Detroit News, approximately 18 percent of Detroit’s 9,000 employees did not receive paychecks, and 275…
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When it comes to holiday time off, it seems like the rumor mill never stops spinning. Depending on who you ask, you’ll get different intel. “For federal holidays we get time off,” one colleague might say. “But do we get paid?” another asks. That same source might reply “Yes and I think it’s overtime.” But what’s the
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In extraordinary circumstances, employees earn double-time pay for working long hours. But who is eligible to earn overtime, and how likely is it to happen? Double Time Requirements The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which oversees federal overtime, minimum wage, child labor, and record-keeping laws, does not require double-time pay to be paid under any
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Biometrics, the study of human metrics, has a long history that dates back to prehistoric times. Ancient artifacts collected in Nova Scotia, Babylon, and China have been found bearing markings of ridge patterns, fingerprints, and handprints used for everything from business transactions to criminal evidence. Centuries later learned scholars, doctors, and scientists began to study
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