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As peak vacation season nears and employees begin jockeying with coworkers to take off the days and weeks they want, employers may be wondering if their time-off policies are fair, simple, and effective or if they complicate work schedules unnecessarily. What’s more important — logging a specified number of hours every weekday, or producing an […]
Yesterday we began to explore the state of performance reviews with Lisa Bodell of futurethink. Today we’ll look at what some major companies have done with their performance reviews.
Courtesy of California Employer Resources®, Marie Burke Kenny, an experienced employment law attorney in San Diego, answers questions with valuable training information about dealing with problem employees. Do you have an overarching piece of advice to give to employers, right off the bat? “Starting right at the interviewing stage, the most important thing employers and […]
Major changes in the workplace will occur in 2014 as “old-school” management protocols and practices give way to fast-moving, as well as more productive and more satisfying, models for engaging employees, according to Fierce, Inc., leadership development and training experts. The insights and predictions are based on Fierce, Inc.’s training experiences with organizations ranging from […]
Litigation Value: Take out your checkbook, Jo. Major bucks to Andy for negligent retention and negligent infliction of emotional distress. Dwight should be prepared to pony up as well, since Andy will be sure to hit him with assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress claims. Andy might even find himself the owner of a […]
We have a service repair technician who is required to repair 12 instruments a year, but due to a three-month Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) absence was only able to repair six. May we view him as an unsatisfactory performer and reduce his merit raise? — Anonymous
by Theodore Fong This year has seen many developments in the labor and employment fields in Canada. One recent development concerns the Alberta Workers’ Compensation Board (WCB), one of several public agencies across Canada to administer an insurance plan for injured or ill workers. Its no-fault insurance system has been in place for nearly a […]
The dawn of the Information Age has undoubtedly changed many aspects of our day-to-day lives. Seemingly impossible amounts of information are at our fingertips constantly, and it’s easier than ever to do our shopping, do our banking, and communicate with each other.
One study, published in the Academy of Management Journal, found that the first 90 days of employment are critical for retaining new hires. Those first days are pivotal to ensuring that new hires build rapport with the company, management teams, and fellow coworkers. Another study revealed that new employees who went through a structured onboarding […]
Brilliant™—a staffing and management resources firm specializing in accounting, finance, and information technology (IT)—has released its Q1 2018 Hiring Forecast. The data indicates an increase in open accounting, finance, and IT positions heading into the first quarter of 2018. Further, businesses are planning to increase their overall hiring plans in the next 12 months, especially […]