HR Roundup: Offering Employees More Flexibility

• Ethan Karp, president and CEO of OMA Connections Partner MAGNET, has authored this Forbes’ column spotlighting five ways manufacturers can offer employees more flexibility.
• Following recent action by the NLRB, employers should evaluate their severance agreements if they restrict a worker’s ability to speak about the agreement or talk negatively about their former employer, writes OMA Connections Partners Fisher Phillips and Calfee.
• Fisher Phillips has posted this 10-minute podcast to provide guidance to manufacturers that are challenged with wage and hour compliance issues.
• The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that high-earning workers might be eligible for overtime pay under federal law. See analysis by OMA Connections Partner Frantz Ward.
• On April 20 in Cincinnati, OMA Connections Partner Vorys will host its 2023 Labor and Employment Seminar with updates on NLRB actions, federal employment laws, recent OSHA activities, and more.

Meanwhile, a new survey from Payscale shows fewer employers plan to give base pay raises this year (80% compared to 92% in 2022), and employers are generally eyeing smaller raises in 2023. 2/23/2023