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According to research highlighted by iCIMS, workers are now only staying with an employer between 2 and 3 years on average. And up to 70% of employees leave a company for higher pay, and 53% claim that they leave because they don’t think that their employers care about them as individuals. In other words, retaining […]
Litigation Value: Class action by day-laborers hired by Dwight = $500,000; penalties for violations of the Immigration Reform and Control Act = $50,000. [Tonight’s entry was authored by Josh Drexler, whom you’ll be hearing more from in the coming year.] While watching last night’s two repeat episodes, I noticed that Dwight Schrute potentially exposed Sabre/Dunder […]
Oscar Wilde once said, “After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one’s own relatives.” One can only hope that this saying holds true for your coworkers as well, especially if you offend their taste buds.
Terminations are an inevitable part of employment, but despite their seemingly routine nature, even voluntary terminations can present a host of potential problems for employers. When handled properly, however, they can provide you with a valuable opportunity to gain insight into your organization, correct previously undetected problems, and increase your retention rate. For those reasons, […]
Yesterday’s Advisor began the Internal Revenue Service’s top 10 401(k) issues; today we hit the rest, again as featured on Compensation.BLR.com®.
What actions are employers taking to prioritize workplace wellness and ultimately boost employee attraction and retention, reduce sick days, and decrease healthcare costs? A recent survey adds some insight to this question.
The material in today’s Advisor comes from our sister publication, Environmental Daily Advisor®. In an ideal world, training will always be successful. There are ways that training can go wrong, however, and forewarned is forearmed. Here are several training pitfalls—and we give you ways to avoid them. There are several possible problems that can lead […]
The second half of 2017 brought devastating hurricanes to several areas of the Southern U.S. and Puerto Rico. In recognition of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, the U.S. Congress provided for both retirement plan hardship distribution tax relief and more generous plan loan rules for participants whose primary residences were damaged in one of the […]
Francis Iwekaogwu complained for years that he was being discriminated against because of his race, threatening on more than one occasion to file a formal charge against his employer. When he finally sued and went to trial, he didn¹t win any damages for race bias. But it turned out that the jury was much more […]
Just My E-pinion By Cathy Bolger Recently, former Vice President Al Gore found himself in the unlikely role of Hollywood celebrity, accepting an Oscar as producer of a documentary on global warming, titled An Inconvenient Truth. HR Management Trainer Cathy Bolger thinks she knows how Gore was able to gain so much acceptance … by […]