Ask the Expert: Recruiting Document Retention
Q. How long should we retain recruitment records such as job applications and interview notes for candidates who aren’t hired?
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How to Deal with Workplace Attendance Problems
Employee attendance problems are probably the most common reason for disciplinary action and discharge. Yet many employers pay surprisingly little attention to their attendance policies.
The Changing Executive Benefits Landscape: An In-Depth Look
The executive benefits and perquisites landscape may make you recall lessons from high school geology. Movement is often slow, but can result in dramatic shifts. As the competitive landscape adjusts to economic and societal forces, so do the ways companies seek to attract and retain their key executives. To find out whether (or how) benefits […]
Partner or Police: How Is your HR Department Perceived?
Human Resources is as complex as the customers it serves. But, when HR Practitioners lose perspective on where their allegiance should reside, it sacrifices the integrity of the profession and potentially alienates customers. This article will provide tips and suggestions on how HR can gain and maintain trust to gain the ultimate reward of that valued “Seat at the Table.”
Productive vs. Unproductive Conflict in the Workplace
Our workplaces have a conflict problem. Over half of all employees (57%) have left a conflict situation with negative feelings—most commonly, demotivation, anger, or frustration—according to the “CPP Global Human Capital Report.”
Ask the Expert: Should Weeks of FMLA Be Used to Calculate Vacation Benefits?
Our company’s policy is that employees need to average 35 hours per week in the previous year to qualify for vacation time. Do weeks taken as unpaid FMLA count as “0 hour” weeks in the calculation of average hours worked, or should they be excluded when we determine vacation benefits?
The Half-Life of Skills
We’ve entered the Age of Acceleration—a time when change is happening faster and faster. As the workplace continues to move more rapidly, so does the market value of skills.
Total Rewards vs. Total Compensation: Are You Muddling the Two?
A total rewards framework is a comprehensive way of looking at how employers pay their employees. It is now finding its way into the thinking of compensation and human resources professionals at more and more companies.
How to Develop More Proactive Employees
Proactive employees tend to be more productive and happier because they feel empowered to innovate and get work done, increase customers’ satisfaction levels, and bring in more revenue.
Study Reveals Top LGBTQ Friendly (and Unfriendly) Industries
New research has revealed those industries that are both the friendliest and the unfriendliest to LGBTQ employees. Read the results below.