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We have an employee who is nearing the end of her 12 weeks of FMLA. The employee is by definition a key employee. At the time she went on leave, the workplace wasn’t experiencing any changes or growth or the need to replace the position. Therefore, we did not communicate to her that there was […]
According to recent research, the coaching models and practices organizations develop and follow significantly correlate to their overall market performance, but many organizations still rate their coaching programs and practices as barely effective or not effective at all.
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.
By Brian P. Smeenk An interesting series of recent labor tribunal decisions provides lessons about the application of contracting out clauses in union agreements. These cases demonstrate how virtually the same collective agreement requirements can be handled quite differently, with dramatically different outcomes. They also demonstrate that contracting out bargaining unit work in the face […]
Are we misdiagnosing the causes of employee burnout and prescribing the wrong remedies?
Artificial intelligence (AI) promises to be a revolutionizing force in our lifetime in applications ranging from business, health care, media, and leisure, but many have expressed concern over AI’s potential for making the need for humans in many fields unnecessary. Some have even expressed concern over whether AI could become self-aware and eliminate and replace […]
In honor of Halloween, this post will address some of the many potential workplace issues in the Pixar film, Monsters, Inc. If you’ve been living under a rock and have managed to not see this film (or its recent sequel), here’s a quick recap. A city called Monstropolis is inhabited by monsters and is powered […]
The number one reason employees leave an organization is because they’re searching for career advancement or promotional opportunities, according to research parsed by Inc.
Today, we’re continuing our coverage of highlights from the results of the BLR® 2015–2016 Pay Budget Survey. Full survey results are available to our Compensation.BLR.com® subscribers on the website.
Do you know when you’re required to provide employees with meal and rest breaks? Are you following the rules? If not, you could be headed toward an expensive legal battle. And a recent spate of wage and hour lawsuits charging employers with violating meal and rest break provisions is focusing attention on these rules.