ONCE YOU HAVE HIRED
REPORTING RESPONSIBILITIES
- Verification with the Social Security Administration
- W-2's and the Social Security Administration
- Reporting New Hires, PA New Hire Reporting Program
- Reasons Behind the Hiring Requirement, A Letter to PA Employers
- Do
Your Employees Need to be Registered as "Food
Employees?"
ONGOING OBLIGATIONS
Wages and Compensation
- Minimum Wage, Federal
- Exemption from State Requirements for Minimum Wage, Minimum Wage Act of 1968, Pa. Stat. Ann. 5 §5(a)(1)
- Exemptions from the Minimum Wage Requirements
- When Should Employees be Paid? Wage Payment and Collection Law
- Overtime
Some states require "Living Wages." These may require an employer to pay employees more than the state and federal minimum wage. Check with your local government to see if a living wage ordinance has been enacted and if it applies to you.
HEALTH AND RETIREMENT BENEFITS: Although some sorts of health benefits and retirement benefits are not required, once you issue benefits you may have certain obligations under the law.
Voluntary
Mandatory
- When You Are Governed by the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993
- When You Must Provide Workers' Compensation
- Pennsylvania Workers' Compensation Quick Links
- Reporting
Injuries
OBLIGATION TO REFRAIN FROM DISCRIMINATORY
PRACTICES IN HIRING AND EMPLOYMENT
- Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Fact Sheets
- Prohibited Personnel Practices from the EEOC
- Age Discrimination
- Race/Color Discrimination
- Religious Discrimination
- Sex Discrimination
- National Origin Discrimination
- Pregnancy Discrimination
- Equal Pay and Compensation Discrimination
- Disability Discrimination and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
- The ADA and Small Employers
- Reasonable Accommodation
- Employer Liability for a Supervisor's Discrimination
- ADA Questions and Answers
- Civil Rights and The Agriculture Marketing Service
PROTECTION AGAINST WORKPLACE INJURIES
- Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA)
- Which workplaces are governed by OSHA?
- OSHA and Agricultural Operations
- Find an OSHA Office
- Pesticide Poisoning and The Worker Protection Standard
- Federal Child Labor Laws in Farm Jobs
- The Operation of Motor Vehicles by Minors
- Youth Minimum Wages
- Child Exposure to Explosives, Woodworking Machinery, Window Cleaning, Spray Coating Operations, Wrecking and Demolishing, and Delivery of Merchandise
- Proof of Age Cards
- Apprentices,
Student Learners, and Vocational Graduates
There are some Exceptions to General Prohibition of Work in Meat Packing Industry, See, 34 Pa. Code § 11.21, et. seq.
- The Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Act
- The Seasonal Farm Labor Act
- Hiring Immigrants
- Explanation of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act
- National Origin Discrimination
- Housing Sanitation: PDA and USDOL (OSHA and ETA) Regulations
UNIONS
- The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Rules and Regulations
- Agricultural Laborers EXEMPT from the NLRA
OTHER HELPFUL SITES
