Paid Breaks Can’t Offset Other Compensation Due, Court Says
Employers cannot count compensation paid during meal breaks toward overtime pay due to employees, a federal appeals court has ruled.
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You’re No Pelé; Get Back to Work!
When will people learn that fake worker’s compensation claims will ultimately lead to lawsuits? Hopefully never, because then we won’t have HRSBT! This recent case is no different, but it’s still entertaining!
Seeing Growth in Self-Funding, Aetna Spends $600M to Grow Into ASO Market
Industry experts are saying health reform is helping promote the self-funding of health benefits, particularly among smaller employers, which can allow employers to get more of a say over benefits design and payment and help avoid a few reform obligations. Large insurers are, accordingly, betting on self-funding and seeing opportunity in administrative services only (ASO) […]
Free Refills on Soup, Salad, and Summer Vacation?
The idea of an unlimited perk tends to excite us – or at least create something of a spectacle.
BLR’s 2013 perks survey results
From health insurance to stock options to paid vacation, employees love perks. They can help in efforts to recruit the best applicants as well as retaining and engaging your top performers. Recently, BLR surveyed 1,493 HR professionals about the types of perks they offer employees. Paid holidays is the number one perk provided by the […]
More Tips for Hiring Minors for Seasonal Work
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here’s more information about how to hire and train minors for seasonal work.
How to Create Diversity with Recruiting
In yesterday’s Advisor, we talked about the benefits of having a diverse workforce and took a look at a few recruiting tips to ensure that the recruiting process promotes inclusion. Today let’s outline a few more tips:
Free labor or future liability? Unpaid internships in Canada also pose issues
By Julia Kennedy With each summer comes a wave of new graduates and returning students looking for ways to gain career experience. This summer, the media spotlight has been focused on the nature of unpaid internships in the United States and Canada. They are no longer limited to the not-for-profit sector. It’s probably a good […]
Another New Leave of Absence for Canadians?
By Ralph N. Nero and Fida Hindi Canadian employees are entitled to all sorts of leaves – maternity leaves, parental leaves, sick leaves, emergency leaves, leave for the disappearance of a minor child, and the list goes on. Now Ontario may be joining Quebec by creating yet another new category of leave of absence for […]
Use Employee Surveys to Measure Engagement with Training
The answer to the question of how to motivate and engage employees is locked away in the employees, and in their values, beliefs and needs. Each of us has a unique set of motivational drivers. Unless a leader can align with these, it will be difficult to motivate and engage employees over the long term. […]