ComplianceHR Updates

We are continually striving to enhance our solutions to help you simplify the complexities of employment law. A little while ago, we received feedback from our clients regarding the frontloading information available in the Paid Sick Leave Report in the Reference Center. After carefully reviewing this feedback, we collaborated with Littler’s paid sick leave subject matter experts to revamp the existing question “Can employers comply with the law by frontloading paid sick time?” 

The discussion now specifically focuses on answering the question “Can employers avoid carryover by frontloading?” If a statute or rule expressly allows the practice of pro-rata frontloading for mid-year hires or part-time employees, this information is also included in the discussion.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to us at support@compliancehr.com. 

We are excited to announce the release of our new Reference Center report: Documentation at the End of Employment.

We are very excited to share that ComplianceHR has been fully acquired by Littler, the world’s largest employment and labor law firm. As a valued client, we wanted to share this information with you before it becomes public next week.

As a longtime Littler joint venture, we have leveraged exclusive data, knowledge, and information to provide you with solutions that simplify the complexity of employment law. Deepening our partnership with Littler allows us to not only deliver additional employment and labor law topics and information, but it also enables us to continue to improve and expand our solution offerings.

Over the next 12-18 months, we will be making helpful improvements and time-saving updates to our solutions’ speed, design, user interface, and overall user experience. Some specifics that you can look forward to include:

• Reference Center: Improving options for finding answers, filtering, and sorting
• PolicySmart: Moving to a policy-centered design and stepping away from static templates
• Navigator OT: Improving record views and adding flexible workflows for sending questionnaires
• Navigator IC: Improving the look and feel to better align with Navigator OT
• Document Center: Implementing a faster, more intuitive user experience and moving away from the current “wizard” design
• The Entire Navigator Suite: Unifying the navigation across all solutions and simplifying the permission structure

We will continue to communicate changes to the solutions with you as they are being developed. Please feel free to reach out to us at support@compliancehr.com with any questions.

We are excited to announce that the Documentation at the Time of Hire Report is now available on the Reference Center! This is the first of two Documentation reports we will be releasing this spring. Keep an eye out for the Documentation at the End of Employment Report over the next few weeks.

To view the new report, select the topic “Documentation: Time of Hire.” This report answers the questions:

We are excited to announce the release of a new topic in the Reference Center: New Hire Reporting. This topic includes federal new hire reporting requirements, which are the minimum requirements that state new hire reporting laws must satisfy, in addition to state requirements. It is designed to answer the following questions:

As you know, we are monitoring the executive orders issued during the Trump Administration’s first 100 days in office. To make it easier for you to check out these orders, links to Littler’s Executive Order Tracker and Rescinded Order Tracker are now located at the top of your platform.

 If you don’t see them, click the Info button, and they will display:

On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas overturned the DOL’s rule that raised the salary threshold for the “white collar” overtime exemption under the FLSA. As a result, the salary increase that occurred on July 1, 2024, for the FLSA’s executive, administrative, and professional exemptions is no longer in place. This also means that the increase planned on January 1, 2025, will no longer take effect. To learn more, check out Littler’s ASAP “Federal Court Strikes Down Rule Raising Salary Threshold for White Collar Overtime Exemptions.”

Navigator OT has been updated with the resulting federal salary rate, which is $684 per week, or $35,558 per year. Evaluations completed between 9:00 pm EST on June 17, 2024, and 6:30 pm EST November 18, 2024, had the July 1st salary threshold applied. If you previously completed an evaluation and would like to rerun the evaluation, you can do that by following these steps.

If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to us at support@compliancehr.com.  

Navigator OT has been updated, and any evaluations submitted will now use the new salary level needed to qualify for the FLSA's administrative, executive, and...

On July 1, 2024, the final overtime rule goes into effect, and the salary level needed to qualify for the FLSA’s executive, administrative, and professional exemption will increase to $844 per week ($43,888 annualized). To make sure you have some time to prepare, we have decided to update the salary rate in Navigator OT on June 17, 2024. Evaluations submitted after 9 pm EST that day will use the new salary level.

On June 1, 2024, a new expansive anti-discrimination ordinance goes into effect in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. This ordinance establishes protected characteristics and includes prohibitions relating to salary history and criminal record history. You can learn more about the new ordinance here.