What Does It Mean to be ‘Competitive’ with Employee Pay?
Many jobs today—and perhaps some your company has posted—list the pay as “competitive.” But what does that mean, exactly?
Category: HR Management & Compliance
There are dozens of details to take care of in the day-to-day operation of your department and your company. We give you case studies, news updates, best practices and training tips that keep your organization fully in compliance with ever-changing employment law, and you fully aware of emerging HR trends.
Do Your Employees Know These Four Tips for Delivering Bad News?
Bad news is no fun to deliver. That’s why even distinguished leaders and otherwise successful people will go to great lengths to avoid doing it. For example, you make excuses to hold on to an underperforming employee. And admit it: You’ve almost certainly hung around in a problematic personal relationship (romantic or platonic) longer […]
Implementing Pay Grades and Ranges: Common Pay Structure Issues
Do you use pay grades? If you’re just starting to implement such a system, you may be confused about where to even begin.
Don’t Forget to Find Some Quiet Time This Year
You don’t spend nearly enough time simply thinking. Before you take offense to that statement, consider how much time you spend talking, responding to e-mail, even reading—my guess is that you spend more time doing any one of them than you do thinking.
Current Trends in Wellness—How Does Your Program Compare?
In yesterday’s Advisor, Consultant Karl Ahlrichs shared tips on how to save big with disease management programs. Today, he reveals the latest trends in successful wellness programs.
Disease and Lifestyle Management: Smarter Spending of Wellness Dollars
In most organizations, a small population of employees accounts for a significant share of healthcare costs. What to do?
Finances—Where Does HR Fit In?
Yesterday’s Advisor featured tips from Clare Novak on the basics of finance and how to speak its language; today, how HR fits into the picture and some advice on how to turn financial literacy into funding for your department.
Give New Hires the Right Safety Training Message
A new employee’s first few days on the job are a crucial time for conveying essential safety information and establishing a proper orientation to workplace safety. During that time, someone—either your safety staff, the new employee’s supervisor, or an experienced employee appointed by the supervisor—must: Reinforce the message about the organization’s commitment to safety. […]
Legal knots untied: Same-sex marriage soon to be lawful in Florida
by Robert J. Sniffen and Jeff Slanker Effective January 6, 2015, same-sex marriage will be lawful in Florida. On December 19, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to extend the postponement of a federal district court’s decision that Florida’s ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional. The district court judge postponed his order until January 5, 2015, […]
Are You Training New Hires to Get Off to the Right Start?
Your organization has recently filled some open positions, and it’s time to put new employees to work. First, though, you need to make sure they understand your facility’s safety ins and outs. This checklist can help you ensure that you cover all of your new employee safety orientation bases. Before they start working on […]