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Yesterday’s Advisor presented the start of a brief training session on how to handle life-threatening allergic reactions, a condition known as “anaphylaxis.” Today, we conclude the training session with how to recognize anaphylactic symptoms and how to treat anaphylaxis.
In California, employers have to juggle both FMLA and CFRA laws, and both allow protected leave on an intermittent basis. Intermittent leave is perhaps the most difficult aspect of FMLA/CFRA leaves because it presents operational and scheduling issues and inconveniences that can be frustrating for employers. Understanding intermittent leave and what can be done to minimize these frustrations and scheduling issues can go a long way toward easing the implementation of FMLA/CFRA leaves.
Health insurance benefits—bound to be the hot topic of 2014. How are people handling it out in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out! Please participate in our brief survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll get answers […]
Here are 10 tips to share at an upcoming safety meeting—they may also serve as valuable reminders to workers who plan to spend the weekend gardening or doing other yard work. Follow these safety tips for outside hazards—machinery, insects, heat, and more: Wear safety goggles, sturdy shoes, and long pants when using lawn mowers and […]
On April 13, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued a final market stabilization rule designed to improve the healthcare marketplace and promote stability.
Former President Barack Obama gave the keynote speech Monday, at the 2018 ATD International Conference and Exposition in San Diego, CA about the role of learning, and the culture of learning, within organizations and how his education and learning experiences shaped is own decision-making abilities. ATD is the Association for Talent Development.
By Stephen D. Bruce, PHR Editor, HR Daily Advisor “How good am I?” is a question we all ask ourselves, says business and leadership blogger Dan Oswald. We want to know how good we are at most things in our lives, says Oswald, CEO of BLR, who offered his thoughts on feedback in a recent […]
It is no secret that there is a “war for talent” in the business world to attract the best and the brightest. As this fight continues, and although some of the same best practices we have known for decades still apply, there are other cool, innovative approaches that organizations have successfully used in ensuring the […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, CareerBuilder’s annual job forecast survey predicted a sunny 2015 for jobseekers; today, the survey’s results reveal five up-and-coming trends in the comp and recruiting arenas.
My work as a DEI expert for institutions in the health ecosystem (think pharma, medical schools, hospital systems, etc.) has made one thing consistently clear: finding solutions to health disparities means addressing the issue of poverty. The two are inextricably intertwined, and businesses must lead out front. A recent study outlined poverty’s impact on mortality […]