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Last week’s post lamented the August heat (call it an inferno) many parts of the country are enduring, while looking ahead wistfully to the promised land (call it a paradise) of a new season for The Office. In the midst of this entertainment limbo, I took the suggestion of a fellow blogger and sought inspirational […]
By Upendra Chivukula and Veny W. Musum Today, almost 50% of Americans own zero capital wealth. With the already manifest discontent all over the country, this fact is an ominous recipe for even wider, much more serious future levels of unrest. However, there is a solution. Shared employee ownership via Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs) […]
At a packed session presented by SHRM top 10 speaker Allison West Esq., SPHR SHRP-SCP, she offered these tips.
By Kyla Stott-Jess and Gulu Punia A difficult employee states that he is quitting and walks out the door. Problem solved? Or just beginning? Recent cases illustrate that it’s hard to know when an employee has quit in the eyes of the courts in Canada. And it can be expensive when you get it wrong. […]
If you can’t define it, you can’t measure it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. If you can’t manage it, you leave it to chance, say Noelle Nitz and Linda Duffy. Unfortunately, there’s a language barrier when HR people try to talk metrics to management. Nitz, President of the Institute for Financial […]
Please participate in our brief survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll get answers to these questions and more: What kind of paid leaves are offered? PTO or separate vacation and sick leave? How much time off for what length of service? Is donating […]
Author Jathan Janove says he’s had a ringside seat for innumerable employee/employer battles that led down a path of frustrated desires and expectations. To make that relationship work better, he developed the “Star Profile.” Janove developed the “Star Profile” to provide a basis for mutual understanding between direct reports and their supervisors. One of its […]
It’s one of HR’s most difficult dilemmas—how to balance your compassion for a chronically ill employee with your legitimate business concerns.
I’m looking for an agreement that sets up a company’s ability to give an employee a loan and then forgive that loan over time. For example, the employer wants to give an employee money for tuition and then forgive the loan as the employee stays with the company over the next several years.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, evacuation orders are lifting and recovery efforts are in their early stages. Employers are facing a number of storm-related issues as they prepare to resume normal operations. Here are just a few of the questions employers are asking. 1. Does the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) require me to pay […]