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By way of introduction, my name is Elizabeth Petersen, and I’m the executive vice president of BLR’s healthcare division.
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PTO in California: 7 permitted payroll deductions for exempt employees
How can a California employer administer their PTO policy and still stay in compliance with the requirements for exempt employees? Can the employer make deductions from pay for an exempt employee after all PTO time has been used?
Train Employees to Recognize—and Seek Help for—Depression
In yesterday’s Advisor, we reported on a recent study on the increasing rates of workplace suicide. Today, we provide training for your employees on how they can recognize and get help for depression—before it leads to suicidal thoughts or actions.
Why More Companies Will Think of Benefit Plans as ‘Health Hubs’ in 2021
There’s no doubt that 2020 was a challenging year. As with other industries, we dealt with ensuring the continued health and safety of our employees and providing the ongoing service and support our customers have come to expect and appreciate during the COVID-19 pandemic. But, 2020 also gave Human Resources professionals a great opportunity to […]
Developing a Strong Hiring Plan
What can you do to make sure your hiring plan is solid? How do you fill in the missing gaps? Today we’ll look at workforce analysis.
3 Mental Health Mindsets: A Short but Useful Guide
Although mental health issues are often unseen, hidden, and stigmatized, they are on par in importance with physical health challenges. An employee with a mental health issue can be just as significantly sidelined from being productive as one with an injured limb. The following insights aren’t designed to make the reader a therapist or fix […]
Decoding the Military for Veteran Hiring Success
By Karin A. Vernazza, SPHR, as told to Archana Mehta Three years ago, President Obama announced a challenge to the U.S. private sector — hire or train 100,000 unemployed veterans or their spouses by the end of 2013. Many companies nationwide took on that challenge and started veteran-hiring job fairs to attract military talent but […]
5 Steps to Creating a Diverse and Inclusive Company from the Top Down
Achieving substantial change or progress requires pushing past the superficial and digging deep. As a business leader, this almost certainly comes with facing some difficult, distressing truths.
Gen Z and Millennials Say Skill Development is Non-Negotiable: Here’s How to Meet This Group Where They’re At
Despite economic uncertainty, the job market is still showing stronger than expected gains. For employers banking on employees staying put, this spells bad news. New data also reveals that young people are especially open to change – 75% of Millennials and 79% of Gen Z employees say they’d actively look for a new job if […]
Top 20 HR Strange But True Stories for 2015, Part 2
In yesterday’s HRSBT, we counted down the top 20 HRSBT stories of 2015. Here are the remaining 10!