Kentucky
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.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Kentucky laws surrounding affirmative action in the workplace. It covers the law for private employers, the law for state contractors and veterans preference policies.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of Kentucky laws prohibiting sexual harassment and other forms of harassment on the basis of a protected characteristic. It covers sexual harassment training, defenses against harassment claims, enforcement and remedies.
This guide provides HR professionals with an overview of anti-retaliation protections under Kentucky EEO laws. It addresses what constitutes retaliation and the associated penalties and remedies for employers that engage in illegal retaliation.
Kentucky law requires covered employers to keep records about employees' wages and hours, including the minimum wage tip credit. This guide provides an in-depth review of Kentucky employment law requirements HR must follow with respect to wage and hour recordkeeping.