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The landscape of employee leave continues to undergo change and is increasingly complex, especially as state and local leave laws emerge on a regular basis. The fifth annual DMEC Employer Leave Management Survey finds that while employers have become more sophisticated in their management of leave, the managing of intermittent leave has become the top challenge for employers of […]
The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times on November 5. 1. The Age of Turbulence, by Alan Greenspan. The former Federal Reserve Chairman’s memoir. 2. Basic Black by Cathie Black. The president of Hearst Magazines provides advice for achieving success and balance in life. […]
BLR’s HR editors met recently to share their insights about upcoming challenges in 2013: in today’s Advisor, interesting doings at the NLRB. For insights about the overly aggressive NLRB and the recent court decision concerning the legitimacy of President Obama’s recess appointments, we spoke with Patricia Trainor, BLR’s senior managing editor, HR. “There’s a very […]
by David Marchione, OHS Consultant/Paralegal Many employers struggle to efficiently manage workers’ compensation claims. Most provincial experience rating programs established by workers’ compensation boards are based on two things: claim costs and claim duration. Thus, a failure by an employer to efficiently manage a claim can result in increased costs and increased duration of the […]
Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) has become much more than just a solution for high-volume, permanent placement, and as such, organizations need to be prepared to harness and leverage the additional assets RPO can provide. This is according to a new white paper released by ManpowerGroup Solutions, the world’s largest RPO provider, part of ManpowerGroup.
What effect does your employees’ use of PDA’s have on wage and hour issues? Are you “suffering and permitting” when they respond to calls after hours? Is any time ever “de minimis?” Attorney Laura Innes tackles these questions and makes some recommendations for 2011. Compensable “hours worked” is all the time during which an employee […]
By Ashley Harrison Sakakeeny, JD The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals— which covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont—recently announced a surprisingly employer-friendly test for evaluating whether unpaid interns should be classified as employees.
Who’s the expert on recruiting these days? It might just be Monster, the giant job-finding website. Here’s what their new hiring guide, Finding Keepers, says about successful recruiting: With 40 million jobseekers and thousands of employers using Monster.com, it’s hard to ignore the website’s impact on hiring. So who better to dish out some hiring […]
As HR professionals, and really as people, we opt to be nice and polite when dealing with anything in the workplace. But what happens when that blanket “agreeable”-ness produces a stagnant and stale environment instead of something productive? When the status quo becomes more harm than good, how can you break the mold? Amira Barger, […]