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I Have Many Skills; Giving Out Terrorist Locations Is One of Them!

LinkedIn® is a great website if you’re looking to recruit candidates for a specific role. You can find skill sets endorsed by the candidate’s “followers” and get a general idea of the person’s work history, without having to review his or her résumé. However, sometimes you find more than what you bargained for!

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Managing Employee Monitoring

In a previous post, we discussed some survey results from a recent Blind report, which showed that 25.8% of employees feel their employers go to unreasonable lengths to monitor their online activity. Blind also cited research from SAGE, which shows that two-thirds of employers utilize some form of electronic monitoring of employees.

Wellbeing 101: How Healthcare Leaders Provide Support and Build Resiliency

Being a nurse is difficult. The job entails long hours, substantial workloads, and the heavy emotional burden of guiding patients through some of the toughest moments of their lives. Nurse wellbeing is essential to the success of a health system, and it is the CNO’s job to make sure they are providing programs and support […]

FMLA Leave HR Conundrums: Handling Suspected Fraud

FMLA leave provides enough regulations for HR to contend with—no one wants to add a fraud investigation into the mix. However, it’s an unfortunate reality that some employees try to abuse the system, especially when it comes to intermittent leave. What can an employer do when fraud is suspected? What Constitutes FMLA Fraud “What constitutes […]

Get Your Learners Moving During Training

Sharon Bowman, president of Bowperson Publishing & Training (www.bowperson.com) and author of Using Brain Science to Make Training Stick, gave trainers good advice yesterday, so we asked her another question: “Why is movement important during training, and how can trainers build movement into training sessions?” Bowman responds by reporting that brain research conducted in the […]

Whistleblowing compliance officer: Trouble from within

Your company’s compliance officer — the person to whom you entrusted your confidential business information — alleges you wrongfully terminated her after she tried to prevent you from violating a federal law. This 8th Circuit opinion rules against the whistleblower in a case that is a fine example of internal breakdown handling a compliance complaint, and sparks […]

What it takes to be an indispensable employee

by Dan Oswald The other day, a colleague passed along an article from Inc. magazine titled “35 Habits That Make Employees Extremely Valuable.” Whether you’re an employee trying to figure out how to make yourself indispensable to your employer or a manager looking for the right type of person for your team, this piece, written […]

First Impressions

Litigation Value:  $0 Potential Savings:  $10,000 per retained employee Last night’s rerun didn’t offer much new, so we’ll fulfill our promise to revisit the second “Michael Scott Paper Company” episode. Michael crafted a deal to house his new company’s headquarters in a Dunder Mifflin closet. The dream team’s starry-eyed optimism soon wore off after Michael, […]