The Reference Center is designed to simplify the complexity of employment law across various topics.
It includes:
Comprehensive Guidance: State-specific comprehensive guides that follow the employment cycle – tracking requirements from pre-hire, time of hire, employment, and through to the end of employment.
Final Pay: Reports general state law requirements regarding the timing of final wage payment upon voluntary and involuntary termination of employment.
Holidays: Reports state law requirements for holidays and days of rest. These benefits are generally a contract between the employer and the employee.
Leave (FMLA): Reports FMLA and similar state laws regarding protected leaves of absence.
Meal and Rest: Reports state law meal and rest break requirements for adults, including when breaks must be given, if employees can be required to remain on premises, and if breaks can be unpaid.
Minimum Wage: Reports minimum wage requirements for non-exempt employees, along with basic information about tip credits. It includes present and future requirements for locations that have a population of at least 100,000 people.
New Hire Reporting: Reports the key elements of federal and state new hire reporting laws.
On-Call: Reports general state requirements for paying employees who are on-call.
Paid Sick Leave: Reports guidance from state and local statutes, regulations, ordinances, and guidance for local enforcement agencies for those states with an enacted Paid Sick Leave law.
Pay Frequency: Reports state law requirements regarding the frequency and timing of wage payments.
Predictive Scheduling: Reports laws aimed at providing more scheduling predictability to hourly workers. It summarizes requirements contained within statutes and regulations governing predictive and fair scheduling laws at federal, state, and local levels.
Posters: Reports federal and state-specific general requirements regarding workplace posters.
Rate Change: Reports the state law requirements to provide employees with notice before making changes to an employee’s pay or when changing an employee’s payday.
Travel Time: Reports when an employer must pay non-exempt employees for time spent traveling for work.
Voting Time: Reports the varying state regulations requiring how much time off must be provided, the circumstances under which time off must be provided, whether time off must be paid, and how much notice must be given by the employee.