Kentucky
As mandated by the Kentucky Education and Labor Cabinet, all Kentucky employers must post the Kentucky Wage and Hour Poster.
This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the test for employee state unemployment insurance (SUI) tax coverage and what constitutes SUI taxable wages in Kentucky. It covers topics such as the taxable wage base, contribution rates, experience rating methods, SUTA dumping prevention, voluntary contributions, joint or combined accounts, quarterly reporting requirements, penalties for late filing, multiple worksite reporting and recordkeeping requirements.
Kentucky law requires covered employers to provide eligible employees and dependents the option of continuing health care coverage under certain circumstances. This guide helps HR professionals understand requirements related to continued health care coverage and conversion coverage.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Kentucky requirements regarding workplace security, including those related to trade secrets, data breaches and guns and weapons in the workplace.
Kentucky's wage and hour law requires covered employers to pay nonexempt employees overtime for every hour worked in excess of 40 hours in a workweek. This guide provides an in-depth review of Kentucky employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to this law.
This guide provides an overview of Kentucky law regarding jury duty leave for employees. It covers employer obligations to provide leave, employee eligibility for leave, compensation during leave, prohibited actions against employees who perform jury service, and employee remedies for employer discrimination or retaliation with respect to jury service.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Kentucky laws applicable to employers when interviewing and selecting prospective employees. It covers acceptable and unacceptable interview questions, laws restricting certain types of inquiries, and how antidiscrimination laws apply during the interview and selection process.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Kentucky laws addressing employer recruiting practices. It covers recruiting methods and sources, advertising dos and don'ts, laws regarding job applications, considerations for recruiting minors, avoiding discrimination risk and more.
Kentucky law does not require private employers to provide employees with access to their personnel files.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Kentucky laws related to employment offers. It discusses verbal and written employment offers, conditional employment offers, and withdrawal of employment offers.