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HRIS Records Checklist: How Do You Stand?

HRIS Personnel Records Checklist The more questions to which you answer “yes,” the better your computer system is able to handle personnel records. Records maintained Do you have a computer system for the following personnel records:   Yes No Beneficiaries of benefits plan? ❒ ❒ Cost of benefits plan? ❒ ❒ Date employees admitted into […]

Train Supervisors on 5 Keys for Preventing Conflict

“The key to managing conflict isn’t just about pushing them to resolution, but also to learn how to have nicer conflicts,” said Tim Scudder, CEO of Personal Strengths USA and coauthor of Have a Nice Conflict: A Story of Finding Success and Satisfaction in the Most Unlikely Places (www.haveaniceconflict.com). “As one set of conflicts is […]

HRISs Have Definite Advantages … and Disadvantages

What Are the Advantages of HRISs? One-stop shopping. One of the most frequently mentioned advantages of the HRIS is that you enter information only once for many HR-related employee tasks. And, similarly, you need to update only one place when employee information changes. Integration of data. Furthermore, different parts of the system can “talk to […]

Employee Takes It on the Chin for Refusing Boss’s Personal Grooming Request

When a St. Louis city worker was fired for complaining about the advances of her supervisor, she filed suit for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. But what makes this case “strange but true” is the evidence she used to show that the boss considered their relationship more than just professional. While the boss claims his […]

Feds Serve Warrant While Waiter Serves Dinner

This time a waiter didn’t get a tip but was done in by a tip, resulting in his arrest in the workplace. This time a waiter didn’t get a tip but was done in by a tip, resulting in his arrest in the workplace. He’s a waiter, so federal marshals knew exactly when to find […]

Share Your Sticky Fingers Stories

A man in Virginia has been arrested for stealing laptops. According to local reports, there were more than 1,200 laptops found in his home. The man, a public schools employee, sold the computers online. He has been arrested for embezzlement. Not the first…or the last. Employee theft is nothing new. It can range from taking […]

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HRIS: Advantages … and Disadvantages

For departments that are not fully digitized, this is a good time to review your status. What is an HRIS (Human Resources Information System)? We’re defining it as a software or online platform that assists HR professionals by integrating the management of employee data with the performance of common HR tasks. What Are the Advantages […]

Are Your Supervisors Trained to Manage Conflicts?

Management experts estimate that most supervisors and managers spend as much as a quarter or more of their valuable work time managing conflicts. Workplace conflict may be based on disagreements over work procedures, different needs and interests, clashes of personalities, or a range of other situations and circumstances that lead to confrontations between or among […]

Showdown in Texas over hiring convicted felons

by Mark Flora Texas Attorney General (AG) Greg Abbott has filed suit against the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), seeking a declaratory judgment that Texas and its agencies be entitled to maintain their current policies barring convicted felons, or categories of convicted felons, from state employment. Convicted felons and categories of convicted felons are currently […]