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For many companies, year-end and/or shortly after the new year is a time set aside on the corporate calendar for annual evaluations. Employee evaluations should not only put employees on notice of performance problems and provide feedback for their continued development and growth but also demonstrate the employer’s efforts to help low performers and challenge […]
Today we are continuing our two part article on opioid addiction and the workplace. Check out part 1 here. We are joined once again by Kelly Nantel, the VP of Communications and Advocacy at the National Safety Council (NCS).
Does your compensation program have a solid foundation? It does if you took the time and made the effort to develop a compensation philosophy.
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) and its “play or pay” provision are jam-packed with terms of art, says attorney Ashley Gillihan. Let’s talk about “applicable large employer,” “full time,” and “hours of service” for starters.
by Robert P. Tinnin, Jr. Q. In January of this year, amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) became effective, adding certain types of leave for family members to help relatives serving in the military. I understand the leave is available for a “qualifying exigency.” What is that? I recently had an employee […]
Does your organization offer parental leave beyond the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)? Do you offer paid parental leave? Are your parental leave options available for both mothers and fathers?
Plan sponsors regularly handle situations that arise from a deceased participant’s failure to designate a beneficiary for his or her employer-sponsored retirement account. A private letter ruling (PLR) from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) earlier this year could provide some insight into the agency’s thinking about allowing surviving spouses to roll over a deceased participant’s […]
Meet Sharon Edmondson, VP of HR at IWG, an organization that provides work spaces around the world for flexible remote work. She is responsible for the America’s Division of HR and has 16 direct HR reports across the globe. She leverages her 19 years of HR experience by managing an organization filled with remote workers […]
With such a variety of HR technology solutions available, it can be easy to think that there is a solution for every HR problem. Meet Diane Strohfus, CHRO of Betterworks, an HR software company with 125 employees spread across three locations in Denver; New York City; and Redwood City, California, as well as full-time remote […]
DiMisa, who is Senior Vice President, Sales Force Effectiveness at Sibson Consulting, suggests that managers start with the basic compensation analytic, CCOS. His remarks came during a recent webinar sponsored by BLR and HR Hero. CCOS or Compensation Cost of Sales is typically calculated by taking all compensation paid to people involved in the sales […]