Kentucky
Kentucky's wage and hour law requires covered employers to pay nonexempt employees a minimum wage for every hour worked. This guide provides an in-depth review of Kentucky employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to this law, including subminimum wages.
This guide provides HR and payroll professionals with compliance guidance regarding the tax treatment in Kentucky of salary deferrals to IRC § 125 cafeteria plans and § 401(k) plans, as well as the taxation and reporting of health insurance benefits for those in same-sex marriages, civil unions and domestic partnerships.
This guide provides an overview of legal requirements related to group life insurance and disability benefits in Kentucky.
In addition to federal posting requirements, a Kentucky employer should ensure compliance with individual state and local requirements for workplace posters. This chart contains information regarding Kentucky-specific notice posting requirements.
Kentucky employers seeking to explain how the handbook and supplement should be read together and that neither the handbook nor the supplement alter an employee's at-will status should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Kentucky employers seeking to show their compliance with Kentucky's law regarding texting while driving, to promote driving safety and to limit liability from accidents involving employees who are driving and using electronic devices for work-related purposes should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Kentucky employers wishing to limit or prohibit weapons in the workplace, prevent workplace violence, provide notice that weapons will not be permitted inside the workplace and show their compliance with the Kentucky law that gives employees the right to keep a lawfully possessed firearm inside a personal vehicle in a company parking lot should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.
Kentucky employers seeking to educate employees, including supervisors, about the availability of leave for service as a juror and to show their compliance with Kentucky's jury duty leave law should consider including this model policy statement in their handbook.