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Technical Bulletins: The 1990 Mtas Salary And Fringe Benefits Survey: A Look At Compensation Of Tennessee Municipal Employees, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The salaries of workers in Tennessee's cities and towns are keeping pace with inflation. That's just one of the findings of the comprehensive salary and fringe benefit survey conducted annually by The University of Tennessee's Municipal Technical Advisory Service. This summary of the 1990 findings is designed to help towns, cities, and others evaluate and compare the data and prepare budgets based on the most up-to-date information.

Technical Bulletins: Flsa: Administrative Exemptions Revisited, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses FLSA administrative exemptions. One of the most difficult problems faced by local governments in complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is in the area of administrative exemptions. Under section 213(a)(1) of the Act, administrative personnel may be exempted from the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the law. The problems exist with what constitutes an administrative exemption.

Model Personnel Policies And Procedures, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

The personnel rules and regulations combine with the city charter and code to form a legal basis of operations for your municipality. Model Personnel Rules And Regulations can be a municipality's statement of policy and procedure.

MTAS Municipal Personnel Report no. 3

Technical Bulletins: Minimum Wage Changes, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin focuses on specific sections of the Fair Labor Standards Act Amendment: Section 2. Minimum Wage Increase; Section 5. Tip Credit; Section 6. Training Wage; and Section 7. Maximum Hours Exemption for Employees Receiving Remedial Education. President Bush signed legislation (P.L. 101-157) amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (FlSA) and the minimum wage provisions provided by the Act. This represents the first increase in the minimum wage since 1981.

Workplace Substance Abuse: What Employers Can Do, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Workplace Substance Abuse: What Employers Can Dodiscusses substance abuse problems. Options on how municipal employers can minimize exposure to lawsuits are outlined. Steps in establishing a comprehensive substance abuse policy are provided.

MTAS Personnel Report, no. 2

Legal Considerations Involved In The Hiring Decision (Or "Do I Really Have To Hire That Person?"), Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

Covers such topics as the employment contract in Tennessee; state employment legislation affecting hiring; and various types of discrimination.

Technical Bulletins: Group Insurance For City Personnel, Don W. Ownby

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses Title 8, Chapter 50, Part 3, of the Tennessee Code Annotated (TCA), entitled "Insurance for Employees and Officials of Municipal Corporations and Special School Districts", which was enacted in 1961 and expressly authorized municipal corporations to provide group life, hospitalization, disability, or medical insurance for all their employees and officials.

Technical Bulletins: Mandatory Medicare Coverage For Newly Hired State And Local Workers, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses a Budget Reconciliation Bill designed to reduce the federal budget deficit by raising eighteen (18) billion dollars in the next three (3) years. The reconciliation legislation included a provision that required all state and local government employees hired after April 1, 1986 to be covered by the Medicare portion of the Social Security Tax. The new bill required both employers and employees to pay a tax of 1.45% on the first $42,000 of income earned by an employee.

Technical Bulletins: Maternity Leave In Tennessee, Richard Stokes

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On January 1, 1988, Tennessee joined the list of states that have enacted legislation requiring employers to provide maternity leave to female employees. This Technical Bulletin provides some information about that legislation (House Bill No. 1002 as submitted by Williams, Purcell, Bushing, Gaia, Kernell, and Deberry and Senate Bill No. 878 as submitted by Haynes).

Federal Courts Fold, Spindle And Mutilate Sexual Harassment, Sid Hemsley

MTAS Publications: Full Publications

This report looks at two federal court decisions on sexual harassment. Included are samples of sexual harassment policies for municipalities with different forms of government.

Technical Bulletins: Required Group Health Care Coverage For Former Employees And Dependents, Michael Tallent

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses Title X of the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 (COBRA), which requires cities with more than 20 employees, that offer health care plans, to extend continuing health care coverage to their employees or their dependents when certain "qualifying events" have occurred.

Technical Bulletins: Irs Regulations Clarifying Taxation Of Non-Cash Fringe Benefits, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Internal Revenue Service issued regulations clarifying the circumstances in which non-cash fringe benefits provided to employees must be treated as taxable income.

Technical Bulletins: Congressional Action Modifies Irs Vehicle Requirements, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

President Reagan signed into law on May 24, 1985, the Conference Report to H.R. 1869, which became Public Law 99-44. As of the printing of this Technical Bulletin, Public Law 99-44 had not been printed. This bulletin was based upon the Conference Report, which may have not included all the provisions included in the law upon its publication.

Technical Bulletins: Changes In Irs Rules Regarding Employee Fringe Benefits, Richard M. Ellis

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses temporary regulations issued by the IRS, retroactively effective to January 1, 1985, which affected certain fringe benefits provided to city employees.

Technical Bulletins: Bidding And Evaluating Dental Insurance, William Gary Head

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin provides a brief summary of the types of dental insurance available and, with a small amount of additional information and assistance, can be used as a guide in bidding and evaluating such coverage.

Technical Bulletins: Sick Pay Excluded From Wages Subject To Social Security (Fica) Taxes, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Savings for cities and their employees could result from legislation, passed by the 1980 Tennessee General Assembly, excluding personal sick leave payments from social security contributions . Specifically, the legislation (Public Chapter No . 774) exempts from FICA taxes payments made by cities to employees who are absent from work "on account of sickness" or accident disability . It became effective July 1 , 1980.

Technical Bulletins: Tennessee's Anti-Discrimination Law: A Reminder About The Handicapped, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin outlines some of the main provisions of Tennessee's anti-discrimination law as applicable to the employment of handicapped persons. The actual language of the act (TCA 8-50- 103, 104) is also included.

Technical Bulletins: Qualifications Of Companies Providing Deferred Compensation Plan For Employees Of Municipality Must Be Determined By Specified State Officials, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

MTAS issued this Technical Bulletin to inform municipalities of an opinion of the Attorney General of Tennessee that under T.C.A. section 8-4303, the Commissioner of Finance and Administration, the Chairman of the Finance, Ways and Means Committee of the Senate, and the Chairman of the Finance, Ways and Means Committee of the House are required to determine the qualifications of each company providing a deferred compensation plan established pursuant to the Government Employees Deferred Compensation Act (T.C.A. sections 8-4301, et seq.), and that this includes deferred compensation plans for municipal employees.

Technical Bulletins: Unemployment Insurance - Review Of Status, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Reminder to cities about the opportunity of changing their unemployment insurance payment option from "taxpaying" to "reimbursement."

Technical Bulletins: Self-Insurance: A Tennessee City's Experience, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses the city of Kingsport's experience with self-insurance. Important elements in the initial establishment of this self-insured program included: (1) the development of a very stringent employee safety program; (2) the creation of a personnel safety department to administer the program; and (3) the development of a method for funding operation of the program. The key to success in the program was the proper assignment of responsibility.

Technical Bulletins: Unemployment Compensation Insurance: Update Number Two, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

In September 1977, the State Department of Employment Security mailed out forms to every municipality on which to designate whether a particular municipality was to be treated as a "taxpaying" employer or a "reimbursement" employer. To assist cities in making this judgment decision, MTAS provided the following analysis prepared by Dr. Ed Young, Director of Policy Development of the Tennessee Municipal League.

Technical Bulletins: Unemployment Compensation Insurance: Update No. 2, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

Around September 1, 1977 the Tennessee Department of Employment Security mailed to each city in Tennessee a packet of informational material and forms related to municipal administration of the unemployment compensation insurance program for public employers which becomes effective January 1, 1978. The primary purpose of this Technical Bulletin was to alert city officials to the immediate necessity of determining whether the city would be a "taxpaying" or "reimbursing" employer.

Technical Bulletins: Unemployment Compensation Insurance: An Update, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

On Oct. 20, 1976, President Ford signed into law Public Law 94-566, the Unemployment Compensation Amendments of 1976, which had been passed overwhelmingly by both houses of Congress. The Tennessee General Assembly, by adopting chapter 330 of the Public Acts of 1977, has acted to comply with the federal law. This Technical Bulletin addresses some questions about the unemployment compensation insurance program.

Technical Bulletins: New Guidelines On Employee Selection Procedures: Some Compliance Considerations, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses two different sets of federal government guidelines for employee selection procedures. One set is a re-publication of EEOC guidelines first issued in 1970. Another, in which EEOC does not concur, was issued jointly in November 1976 by the Labor and Justice Departments and Civil Service Commission. Both sets apply to local governments.

Technical Bulletins: Special Unemployment Assistance Update, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletins provides updates to the Special Unemployment Assistance (SUA) program as applied to Tennessee municipal employees.

Technical Bulletins: Special Unemployment For City Employees, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

The Tennessee Department of Employment Security entered into an agreement with the U.S. Secretary of Labor making city employees who are laid off eligible for Special Unemployment Insurance. The following general information was extracted from an Employment Security pamphlet to assist in understanding this benefit.

Technical Bulletins: Must Your City File New Eeoc Employee Report?, Mtas

MTAS Publications: Technical Bulletins

This Technical Bulletin discusses regulations related to employment reports. As required by Title 29, Chapter XIV, Part 1602, Code of Federal Regulations, all local and state governments with 100 or more employees must file employment reports with the U. S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) by Oct. 31, 1973. The report form--EE0-4--requires reporting the race, sex, salary range and job classification of all employees. (See copy on reverse side.) The reporting regulations were mandated by the 1972 amendments to the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which brought local and state government under the anti-discrimination clauses of the Act.