Worcester Business Journal

www.wbjournal.com August 29, 2016 • Worcester Business Journal 37 Knowledge + Experience + Trusted Advice. It all adds up. Large enough to serve the needs of most businesses and individuals; small enough to offer the personal attention you expect and deserve. Greenberg, Rosenblatt, Kull & Bitsoli, PC Certified Public Accountants 306 Main Street, Suite 400 • Worcester, MA 01608 508.791.0901 • www.grkb.com Engineering Intel Massachusetts Inc., Intel Americas, Inc., and Intel Federal LLC have opening(s) in Hudson, MA. Combination ed/exp accepted in some positions in lieu of degree. To apply, email resume to Hudson_jobs@intel.com and reference the job # below. Apply to each job # of interest. Applications will be accepted through 10/20/16. EOE Intel Massachusetts Inc. positions: Analog Eng—Designs, develops, modifies and evaluates complex analog and mixed signal electronic parts, components or integrated circuitry for analog and mixed signal electronic equipment and other hardware systems. Requires MS (#680140). Component Design Eng—Design and develop electronic components. Requires MS (#680141); MS+1 yr exp (#680142). Firmware Eng—Conduct or participate in multidisciplinary research and collaborate with design, layout and/or hardware engineers in the design, development, and utilization of productivity enhancement layout tools and design rule checkers, electronic data processing systems software. Requires MS (#680143). Physical Design Eng—Create bottom-up elements of chip design, including FET, cell, and block-level custom layouts, FUB-level floor plans, abstract view generation, RC extraction, and schematic-to- layout verification and debug. Requires MS (#680144); or MS+1 yr exp (#680145). Software Eng—Assess and advise on machine characteristics that affect software systems. Perform network product design, development, testing, and analysis of software applications. Requires MS (#680146); or MS+1 yr exp (#680147). Intel Americas, Inc. positions: Marketing Eng—Provides marketing support for one or many product(s) and/or product families. Requires MS (#680148); or MS+1 yr exp (#680149). Technical Mkt Eng—Serve as technical expert and provide technical support for one or many product(s) and/or product families. Requires MS (#680150). Intel Federal LLC positions: Software Eng—Assess and advise on machine characteristics that affect software systems. Perform network product design, development, testing, and analysis of software applications. Requires PhD (#680151). "My business is here because of my crew and staff." Being dictated to regarding matters of minimum wage, sick time and overtime pay not only poses challenges as an owner, but as a manager, Verrochi said, taking away flexibility in terms of work- er motivation. For example, if required to give a 16-year-old employee a higher minimum wage, what about employees who have been there for two years and worked their way up from minimum wage?" "It has a ripple effect," he says, "if they get a raise, why can't the others? I would give them all raises if I could. But with payroll increases, I can't keep absorbing it." Larger companies face different chal- lenges, especially companies that involve medical care. UMass Memorial Health Care of Worcester and its facilities, which include Marlborough and Clinton hos- pitals, with nearly 13,500 workers in all, isn't revealing its exact plans to comply with the new overtime-exemption mandate come December. But spokes- man Tony Berry points out that health care requires not only logistical consid- erations for compliance, but also a care- ful look to ensure all departments can still effectively deliver high-quality patient care. "This law places the burden on UMass Memorial Health Care to ensure that all employees eligible to receive overtime pay under this new law ... We will meet that obligation," he said in a statement. Nonprofits gear up Deana Tuefferd is president of the Westborough-based CMEA Employers Association, a human resource and labor-law resource. She has been work- ing to show its members the full per- spective of the new overtime law, while helping members address issues sur- rounding compliance. "It's not necessarily a bad thing, it will bring the standard up," she said of the rule. "In Massachusetts the cost of living is so high, this helps to bring employees up to a better financial standard of living." Tuefferd said nonprofits, retailers and restaurants seem most concerned about the law. "If they increase some salaries, do they do it across the board? How does it impact morale? Companies are getting educated, trying to determine the best solution," she said. Jan B. Yost, president of The Health Foundation of Central Mass., said her organization doesn't have salaried work- ers below the $47,476, so no changes are necessary. n Implementing a new employee hour tracking system n Converting salaried employees to hourly n Giving raises to salaried employees to get them above the new threshold Source: U.S. Department of Labor By the numbers: OT rule change $23,600 Current salary threshold for salaried workers to be exempt from overtime pay. $47,476 New threshold Dec. 1 New threshold effective date 4.2 million Salaried workers nationwide who will be newly eligible for overtime 86,000 Massachusetts salaried workers who will be newly eligible for overtime For other nonprofits that rely on grants and state money, Tuefferd said, there isn't a lot of flexibility. They can increase salaries to $913 per week, to meet the annual threshold, or pay workers hourly, with time-and-a- half compensation after 40 hours worked. "It will hit them in the budget, or it's going to force them to take away from somewhere else," she said. Avoiding liability Meanwhile, Loosemore, of the Worcester chamber, advises individual business owners to discuss compliance with their HR department or general counsel, to ensure they aren't opening themselves up to liability. Verrochi, of Red Barn Coffee Roasters, having attended the MetroWest cham- ber session on the new law, is gearing up. "They can throw something else at us," he said of the government. "We just keep swinging." n Compliance methods Central Massachusetts businesses are taking a variety of steps in advance of the Dec. 1 implementation date to get in compliance with the new federal overtime requirements.

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