Warning! Is Your Workplace Culture Holding Your Talent Back?
When you’re building your workplace culture, it’s important to reflect on one important question—are you empowering your employees?
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What Employees Don’t Know About Medicare May Hurt Them
For employees, today’s healthcare environment is a little like squeezing a balloon: when health insurance premiums are affordable, then the side with the out-of-pocket costs inflates. If that side is more reasonable, monthly premiums expand. Either way, health care coverage and insurance costs are likely to drain the budgets of those they are designed to […]
A New CEO Push for Diversity Success
Did you hear? Earlier this summer, 150 corporate executives from some of America’s largest companies formed a new alliance called CEO Action for Diversity & Inclusion. Armed with some serious workplace goals, this initiative became—essentially overnight—the largest CEO-driven business commitment to advance diversity and inclusion in the business community.
FMLA Leave 101: What Qualifies as a Serious Health Condition?
Managing leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has its challenges. Employers need to ensure that all HR staff and all managers who deal with employee leave requests are well-versed in the finer details of FMLA-related leave. They should understand who is eligible for leave, how much they’re eligible for, how you track […]
Learning to Be a Leader from The Best
Yesterday we looked at how we could take lesson from President Lincoln to be better trainers and better people in general. Today, the rest of that list.
Bereavement Leave and Candidate Attraction
A company’s benefits package attracts job candidates, and bereavement leave is one of the benefits in that package.
Finding Leaders in Candidates
Yesterday we looked at some tips from Andre Lavoie, CEO of ClearCompany, on how best to find the leaders among your candidates. Today we’ll look at some more guidance from Lavoie on this subject.
More Companies Turn to College Interns
Employers anticipate hiring 3.4 percent more interns in 2017 than they did in 2016, according to a recent report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE). Perhaps this isn’t surprising given that the demand for employees outweighs the supply of qualified candidates.
Retaining the Millennial Workforce and Why It Matters
In just the past year, Millennials surpassed Baby Boomers as the nation’s largest living generation and started inching their way to making up the majority of the workforce. For HR professionals, this shift in the workforce can create a challenge, as Millennials are known for job hopping more than previous generations. In fact, Deloitte reports that […]
Massachusetts Ruling Opens Door to Discrimination Suits Over Medical Marijuana
A new ruling from the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court should be a warning to employers in the state that refuse to tolerate medical marijuana use by employees with a disability.