Alaska
As mandated by the Alaska Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Labor Standards and Safety, employers subject to OSHA-AKOSH illness and injury reporting requirements must post the Alaska Emergency Information Poster.
This guide highlights key aspects of Alaska law impacting privacy in the workplace. It covers state constitutional privacy rights, common law invasion of privacy claims, lie detector tests, drug and alcohol testing, electronic monitoring and surveillance, criminal use of a computer, personal information protections, personnel files access, medical and recreational marijuana, off-duty conduct, background checks and reference checks.
Alaska law requires covered employers to keep records about employees' wages and hours. This guide provides an in-depth review of Alaska employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to wage and hour recordkeeping.
This guide provides an overview of Alaska law regarding jury duty leave for employees. It covers employer obligations to provide leave, employee eligibility for leave, documentation, 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 Alaska 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 Alaska laws related to background checks and other forms of preemployment screening and testing, including ban the box laws, fair chance laws, credit check laws, preemployment drug testing, physical fitness and medical testing.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Alaska 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.
In-depth review of the spectrum of Alaska employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to employment offer.
Employers subject to the Alaska unemployment insurance law must pay unemployment taxes. These taxes provide wage replacement for covered claimants. This guide helps HR professionals understand related compliance obligations.
Alaska's wage and hour law establishes criteria for determining whether certain activities - including break periods, waiting time and on-call time - count as compensable working time. This guide provides an in-depth review of Alaska employment law requirements with respect to hours worked.