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Are Your Managers Trained to Balance Employer and Employee Needs?

The information in today’s Advisor is from BLR’s 10-Minute HR Trainer session entitled "Balancing Employer and Employee Needs." Present Employer Needs and Expectations to Employees On one side of the employer/employee balance is the task of conveying employer needs and expectations to employees. Train managers to: Know and understand what the organization wants from supervisors […]

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PBGC Reaches New Agreement with Sears

The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) and Sears Holdings Corporation have reached a new agreement that will provide, upon closing, approximately $500 million in funding for Sears’ two pension plans, including contributions already made by Sears since August 2017. The pension plans cover about 100,000 participants. Closing on the agreement should occur in about 3 […]

Ask the Expert: Disability Insurance and Medical Expenses

Can you explain how our medical benefits work with disability insurance? When does medical insurance terminate for an employee who is not working due to a short or long term disability? Does disability insurance cover any of the employee’s medical expenses? (We are covered with a private disability insurance, not through SDI).

Who Needs Forklift Training?

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) takes forklift safety very seriously. In fact, they’ve beefed up the standard to include very specific operator training requirements. OSHA’s standard on Powered Industrial Trucks has specific requirements for operator training (29 CFR 1910.178 (l)(2)(ii)) that require a combination of formal training (classroom, videos, etc.) with practical instruction, […]

Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction

Here is an interesting one. Earlier this week, the mayor of a small town in Oregon was fired after the town learned that there were pictures on the Internet of their esteemed leader posing in front of a fire truck in a black lace bra and panty set. The photographs were taken before she was […]