Every fourth quarter the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) agencies and the U.S. Coast Guard publish their minimum drug and alcohol random testing rates for the upcoming year. All Federal employers must comply with these changes beginning on January 1st. The changes for 2019 are...
The Oregon Equal Pay Act is now effective as of January 1st. This new statute requires that employees within your company doing similar work be paid equal amounts regardless of sex, race, age, or other categories protected within the act. Along with establishing equal pay standards,...
Happy New Year! We hope everyone had a wonderful holiday season. We're super excited for this new year and everything that we have in store for you. There are a couple new updates that have been made in our platform that we wanted to make you...
Are you still having your applicants fill out paperwork and then manually inputting that information into our system yourself? If you prefer taking the time to manually enter your applicant's information into the system from a paper form then that's totally fine! Keep doing what you...
We've had so many clients coming to us lately wanting to add more of our services or features to their current plans! So we thought we'd briefly touch on some of the great services and options we offer here at Total Reporting to make sure you're...
As this year ends, we wanted to reach out and express our gratitude to all of our wonderful clients. Thank you so much for giving us the opportunity to work with you this year. We appreciate your support and business and wish you the best holiday...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration recently published a memorandum clarifying that an earlier ruling (29 C.F.R. § 1904.35(b)(1)(iv)) that prohibited employers from retaliating against employees for reporting work-related injuries or illnesses. Their clarification states that this ruling does not prohibit workplace safety incentive programs...
Marijuana use may pose a greater risk of damage to adolescent brains than alcohol consumption, according to a new study published last week. The American Journal of Psychiatry found that cannabis had greater short and long-term consequences than alcohol on four key components of a teen's...
It's easy to find a lot of information about drug testing online, but unfortunately a lot of that information isn't always the most accurate or reliable. We get clients coming to us all the time with some of these common drug testing myths and half-truths....
According to a new study published by The Lancet medical journal, alcohol is one of the leading causes of death worldwide being linked to around 2.8 million deaths annually. In 2016, alcohol misuse was the seventh-leading risk factor for premature death and disability globally; among people...
