Does Your Training Keep ’Em Laughing … and Listening?
In today’s Advisor, we hear from one expert on how she keeps her training lively and engaging so her trainees are always awake and aware.
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Workers Didn’t Watch the Birdie, Laid an Egg with the Feds
Well, if this story isn’t for the birds! Painters working on the Girard Point Bridge in South Philadelphia, a prime nesting spot for peregrine falcons, and their employer are in trouble with the feds because they didn’t watch the birdies as required.
Transgender employee, sex stereotyping, and a heart attack
by Steven T. Collis Do an employer’s criticisms of a transgender employee’s unruly hair, disheveled clothing, poor writing and speaking skills, and negative client interactions support a discrimination claim based on her failure to conform to a gender stereotype? The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado recently said no to that question. However, […]
Companies Are Reviewing Pay Structures
The conversation about pay parity, encouraged by the entertainment industry, appears to have impacted other industries as well.
4 Elements of Acceptable, Retainable, and Just Plain Effective Safety Training
Yesterday’s Advisor discussed the preparation phase of training, specifically what and whom to train. Today we present four elements that will make that training acceptable and retainable—in short, just plain effective.
Is Your Organization Ripe for Unionizing?
By Eric Magbaleta, SPHR Just My E-Pinion Today’s guest columnist says the recession is giving renewed life to union-organizing activities, and that makes it all the more important for organizations to provide fair wages and benefits and safe working conditions—and to show they care. There is no doubt that the economic downturn has had an […]
Daddy’s Home 2—fisticuffs in the workplace
While the holiday season can be a time of great joy and celebration, it also can be loaded with stress. Indeed, the pressures of preparing for the holiday and spending an inordinate amount of time in close quarters with friends and family can bring long-simmering feuds and frustrations to the surface. This concept is handled […]
DOL Confirms Cybersecurity Guidance Applies to Health and Welfare Plans
On September 6, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) confirmed its cybersecurity guidance applies to all employee benefit plans, including health and welfare plans. In 2021, the DOL issued guidance providing best practices in cybersecurity for plan sponsors, plan fiduciaries, recordkeepers, and plan participants. The retirement plan industry took notice and has generally made […]
States Try to Impose Tougher Stop-loss Limits on Self-insured Health Plans
Recently, four bills were introduced in state legislatures that would make self-funding less attractive by limiting stop-loss coverage for self-insured health plans. Many such proposals would raise minimum specific deductibles above the standard $20,000 seen in most enacted laws. This and other measures are intended to rein in self-insured plans, observers in the self-insured industry […]
Benefits beyond age 65?
By Marc Rodrigue The laws that generally provided for mandatory retirement in Canada have been eliminated. Across Canada, with very few exceptions, employees generally cannot be forced to retire at age 65. But can their benefits be cut off at age 65? Even if employers are permitted to cut off benefits to workers 65 and […]