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Hot List: New York Times Bestselling Hardcover Business Books
The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times with data from Nielsen BookScan on February 28. 1. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera. Two business journalists examine the financial crisis of 2008. 2. […]
Employee Handbooks in California: What Makes Them Effective?
Guest post by Lisa Barnett Sween, J.D. and David Lucero, J.D. of Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP
Survey Reveals Generational Differences Towards Company Management and Taking the Management Track
The annual survey examining employees’ workplace preferences, career goals, and professional values by Addison Group revealed a startling result—only 33% of workers believe that being a manager has the potential to advance their career, making the management track a low priority for them.
Top 10 Hiring Mistakes Made By California Employers
Given the recent state of the economy, most employers have been more concerned with how to conduct effective layoffs than with avoiding mistakes in the hiring process. Yet as the economy gradually (if fitfully) shows signs of improvement, companies need to prepare to hire again. Are you ready?
FMLA Retaliation: Is Suspension with Back Pay an Adverse Employment Action?
By Steve Jones, JD, Jack Nelson Jones & Bryant, P.A The U.S. 8th Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota—recently considered a former employee’s Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) discrimination claims.
Telecommuting is the Benefit that Half your Workforce Wants (and That a Third Would Take a Pay Cut to Get)
If you knew of a benefit that half of your workforce wants, and which they say would boost their productivity, would you embrace it? The results of a new survey show that telecommuting is the benefit half of workers want so much that some are willing to take a pay cut to get it. However, […]
Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis
President-Elect Barack Obama has chosen former South Dakota Senator Tom Daschle as his Secretary of Health and Human Services and health care czar. Daschle lays out his ideas about how to fix the ailing U.S. health care system in his book Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis, which was published in February […]
Don’t Be Mindless About Records Retention
In yesterday’s Advisor, we presented attorney Marc Jacuzzi’s checklist for personnel records. Today, his tips on HR recordkeeping plus an introduction to a special tool for the small or even one-person HR department. Jacuzzi, a shareholder in the South San Francisco law firm Simpson, Garrity, Innes & Jacuzzi, P.C., offers the following tips for better, […]
Success rarely comes overnight—or from just one person
We live in a world of “What have you done for me lately?” And, when we say “lately,” we mean today or this week. Our society suffers from an acute case of “instant gratificationitis.” Wall Street wants to see a return on its investment—now! It’s not necessarily concerned about seeing a company being built for […]