Most Popular
How to Gain Recert Credits without Spending a Dime
By Nona Chigewe In this era of tight budgets, it can be tough to get employers to pay for enough activities to build 60 hours or recert credits. Fortunately, there are a number of free activities that you can use to build credits. Get Credits While You Work Let’s begin with your current job—you can […]
4 slam-dunk tips for HR pros from Spurs’ NBA success
I’m a Wake Forest basketball fan from way back, so I’ve followed Tim Duncan’s professional career closely since 1998. All the sports fans out there are well aware by now that Duncan’s San Antonio Spurs won their fifth NBA title last night in convincing fashion over the Miami Heat. All the Spurs’ titles have come […]
Train Leaders to Lead Like Lincoln
Historical biographer Doris Kearns Goodwin, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, identifies 10 leadership qualities that President Abraham Lincoln demonstrated that she believes still apply to today’s leaders. Here are the last four qualities that Lincoln—and your managers and supervisors—can learn to apply in the workplace […]
News Notes: Injured Employee Caught Playing Golf Convicted Of Workers’ Comp Fraud
An employee who was discovered playing golf while collecting workers’ compensation payments has pleaded no contest to insurance fraud and could face jail time. William LaForge, who was just a few months away from retirement, injured his back when he fell on the steps outside the Daly City high school where he had been an […]
Commander in ‘Beats’?
Now that ex-President Barack Obama has a little extra time on his hands, how will he spend his “retirement” from commander in chief? One music-streaming website is offering Obama a chance to become president again, but not for the United States.
Women at work: Exploring pay equity, making work and life mesh, and HR’s role
Nobody expects climbing the corporate ladder and earning a top-tier paycheck to be easy for anybody. But an array of statistics shows that fewer women than men get to the top rungs and that accounts for part of the reason women earn less. Statistics showing that women make up half the workforce without achieving half […]
Workplace Wellness Programs: Can They Really Pay a 300% Return on Investment?
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Speakers at a workplace wellness program conference say, to make a program pay, start at the top, and take it to the people. Do workplace wellness programs really pay their way in terms of profit and loss? And, if so, how can we convince corporate management that they […]
FLSA Consent Decree Shows DOL Mission to Protect Low-wage ‘Vulnerable’ Workers in Small Firms
When it comes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), no employer is small enough to fly under U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) enforcement radar. Defunct 1st National Leasing Inc. agreed to pay eight former telemarketing employees $34,235 in back wages under a July 19 consent judgment that will put an end to DOL allegations […]
Preventable Employee Expense Reimbursement Missteps
Yesterday, attorney Julia Melnicoe explained some of the most common—and dangerous—wage and hour myths and misconceptions that California employers fall prey to. Today, the rest of the list—plus an introduction to a webinar next week you won’t want to miss. Melnicoe is an attorney at the San Francisco office of Sedgwick LLP. For #s 1-6, […]