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Employee engagement is the most important component to every company’s success. You can have a killer business plan, but if you don’t have innovators who are willing to get the work done, your business is going to fail. How do you counteract this? The answer is by having Human Resources (HR) develop a rock-solid employee onboarding process that will engage employees, starting with the interview process.
Some shoppers heading to the malls on Black Friday for deals on electronics and toys encountered a surprising presence—representatives from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) ready to educate them about their health insurance options.
by Jim Goh Behind efforts to assist organized labor and improve the balance between work and family, increasing workplace safety is a top priority for President Barack Obama and the 111th Congress. Both the President and congressional leaders have vowed more funding for the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) […]
If you were hoping for less hiring challenges in 2019, think again, especially if you’re recruiting and hiring for the accounting, finance, and information technology (IT) industries. As positions in these industries remain elevated, more employers will turn to temporary staffing to help fill the void.
By Jennifer Carsen, JD, Senior Legal Editor Earlier this year, we ran an article on managing employee status changes under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). I invited follow-up questions, and you delivered! Here are a few more tricky ACA status change situations (and answers) for you.
Wellness programs seem like no-brainers, but easy-to-make mistakes can doom your program before it can gain traction. Here are experts’ Debra Wein and Courtney Hernandez’ 10 key wellness mistakes to avoid. Wein is founder and president of Wellness Workdays where Hernandez is senior wellness account manager. In their WellNews they refer to their top 10 […]
Careful planning and follow-up are essential to effective training and neither has to break your budget, according to Sharon Birkman Fink, president and CEO of Birkman International, Inc. “It’s more about creativity than a big budget.” When preparing for a training session, she recommends that trainers find appropriate jokes or funny cartoons to include in […]
And, of course, each type of leave has its own set of eligibility, entitlement, notice, documentation, and tracking requirements, and oftentimes the requirements overlap. To help our readers cope with this thicket of leave laws, BLR—after evaluating a number of leave management systems—is proud to announce that we have established a partnership with Presagia to […]
Corporate culture, or organizational culture, is notoriously difficult to change. The term refers to the ingrained values, practices, and essence of a company. The concept can take many dimensions: focus on timeliness, rigidity of corporate hierarchy, office politics, etc. At the same time, the relatively independent influence of dozens, hundreds, or thousands of employees can […]
by Richard R. Voelbel Minnesota’s new “ban the box” law takes effect January 1, meaning private employers will be prohibited from inquiring about a job candidate’s criminal background until after the candidate has been selected for an interview or has received a conditional offer of employment. Public employers already have been prohibited from including a […]