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Keeping Your Best Employees: Using Compensation Strategy to Nurture the Keepers In today's market, even if you're not making changes yet, your competitors are already hiring, promoting, providing bigger merit increases, and restoring bonuses. There's less and less barrier and more and more incentive for employees to go somewhere else. "I think now it's incumbent […]
Most employers have and use at-will provisions in their employment agreements, handbooks, and acknowledgements. These provisions tend to state that the at-will nature of the employment is not subject to modification. However, in the last year employers have found that these provisions may be in violation of NLRA Section 7. "The NLRB has now weighed […]
Special from Chicago—SHRM Annual Conference and Exhibition In yesterday’s Advisor, we got tips on privacy in the workplace from popular SHRM speaker, attorney Jonathan Segal. Today, his tips on searches, plus an introduction to the all-HR-in-one website, HR.BLR.com. Segal made his remarks at SHRM’s Annual Conference and Exhibition, held recently in Chicago. He is a […]
Addressing depression and related mental disabilities and meeting reasonable accommodation requirements is a delicate balance. Often, employees who are in this situation will have a preconceived idea of what work restrictions would benefit them as an accommodation, and they ask their healthcare providers to state those things as a work restriction when they obtain medical […]
Federal employers and contractors may soon have new disability regulations to follow, two federal agencies have announced. Both the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission have said they will issue new regulations for the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, which prohibits discrimination in hiring and employment practices by the federal government […]
Special from Chicago—SHRM Annual Conference and Exhibition In private employment, the employer determines whether there is an expectation of privacy, says attorney Jonathan Segal, but unwary employers may create the right if they are not careful. (Government employees generally have a constitutional right to a higher level of privacy than those in the private sector.) […]
Many industrial jobs require employees to have specialized knowledge and skills, and to be prepared to deal with a special set of serious hazard exposures. OSHA-mandated specialized training requirements are found in a number of standards. For example: Hazard communication of chemical, carcinogen, and radiation hazards (29 CFR 1910.1200) Combustible dust (29 CFR 1910.22, 269, […]
Dealing with depression and other mental disabilities in the workplace can be challenging. This is especially true if an employer also has to combat negative attitudes towards the affected employees that hinder compliance with the law. California employers need to be aware of assumptions and attitudes about emotional or mental disabilities that can lead to […]
Dear Readers, With the constantly changing scope of social media, engagement, and analytics, it’s hard to stay on top of the latest trends in HR. How are your colleagues—and competitors—handling things out in the field? Please take a few minutes to complete this brief survey and help us (and you) find out what’s happening in […]
Boost Compliance and Prevent Injuries,” speaker Michael Lawrence gave guidance on creating an OSHA-compliant safety training program. In the webinar, Lawrence suggested that an effective approach to creating an OSHA-compliant, injury-reducing safety training program involves four basic steps: Define the problem that you’re trying to correct through training. Identify the risks and protective measures. Develop […]