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HRDA Frankly Speaking: Culture & Cars: NASCAR Knows Both

It’s easy to say your company culture is one of employee support, engagement, and strong morals, but to actually build that culture is another thing. Promises and good faith can only get you so far. When creating a whole and healthy company culture, you need action. We learned this from NASCAR’s Manager of Employee Engagement, […]

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Critical Information Gaps in Your HR Apps

Research shows that organizations are now managing an average of 10 major HR systems and 29 HR system integrations and resourcing over 10 ½ weeks of system updates each year.[i] That’s a proliferation of information coming from numerous systems, forcing companies to become document-centric in their processes and workflows. These documents are mission critical and […]

Get Out the 10-Foot Pole … and Make Sure It Doesn’t Touch These Questions

In yesterday’s Advisor, consultant Bridget Miller shared some application questions to avoid, including those that reveal age or disability information. Today, Miller covers more protected classes, private information, and other areas of inquiry that your application shouldn’t touch with a 10-foot pole.

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Strategies for Becoming a Better Listener

In a previous post, we discussed the importance of listening as a core leadership skill. In short, we wrote, leaders need to learn to listen more and speak less.

Ask the Expert: Do Employers Have to Compensation Employees for Days Missed for Jury Duty?

Question: We have an employee who was summoned for jury duty. Do we, as an employer, have to pay them for the days they’re missing work? Answer: Jury duty is an unavoidable but important part of our legal system. It is also time-consuming and will inevitably force people to miss work. Federally, there is no […]

How to Protect Your Company from Family Responsibilities Discrimination Lawsuits

By Cynthia Thomas Calvert Just My E-Pinion Today, E-pinions features a guest columnist. Cynthia Thomas Calvert is an employer-side attorney and Deputy Director of the Center for Worklife Law, a non-profit organization specializing in the emerging issue of family responsibilities discrimination …and the rising number of lawsuits it’s engendered. Here’s what she has to say: […]

Workers’ compensation reform: Independent medical review

Independent medical review (IMR) is the largest change in California’s SB 863, which has been widely lauded as a “new and improved” workers’ compensation reform package. The new law addresses problems that arose out of the 2004 reforms by minimizing delays in medical treatment and improving access to care.

The Checklist Manifesto

I had been thinking recently about the importance of a good “to do” list, so when I stumbled upon the Atul Gawande’s book The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right. I decided it was fate and bought a copy. Now I must admit, I had not heard anything about the book despite the fact […]