What Employees Want More than a Pay Raise
What is the one thing employees want even more than a pay raise?
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Court: Employer Can Require Wellness Assessment to Participate in Health Insurance Plan
By Jennifer Carsen, JD, Legal Editor Can employers legally require employees to participate in a wellness program as a condition of being covered by the company’s health plan? A new court decision from the Western District of Wisconsin says yes.
New WPS Training Requirements—Rising to the Challenge
In November 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amended the Pesticide Worker Protection Standard (WPS). If you’re in an affected industry, it’s a big change. Today we will review the new training requirements for workers and handlers, which is what some say is the hardest part of complying with the amended WPS.
HR pro or hall monitor? Dealing with childish behavior at work
by Boyd Byers Several HR managers I work with sometimes refer to employees as their “children” and joke that at times (particularly when they’re dealing with their “problem children”), they feel more like grade-school teachers than HR managers. A recent study reaffirms the inherent truth in this analogy. From the playground to the workplace Childish […]
Changes to State and Local Government Compensation
Yesterday’s Advisor began to explore a survey from the Center for State and Local Government Excellence involving the state and local government workforce. Today, more results from that survey. A recent survey conducted by the Center for State and Local Government Excellence suggests that local and state governments are making lots of changes to their […]
Stolen Family Photo Costs Candidate the Job
The Discovery Channel recently aired its new series, “Deadliest Job Interview,” and while that makes for a good HRSBT in itself, it also reminds us of CareerBuilder’s annual survey related to the strangest things HR personnel have experienced while interviewing potential candidates.
How to Handle the Cons of Team Interviewing
In Yesterday’s Advisor we took a look at the many pros of team interviews and at a few of the negatives of team interviews. Today we’ll talk about some of the downsides and what can be done about them. The best way to make sure that your team interviews are the best they can be […]
Lunch Breaks Can Give Employers Indigestion
By Michael P. Maslanka, JD The question of whether lunch breaks are compensable recently surfaced in a case from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas). The court’s decision is instructive and provides a timely reminder that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is fraught with danger.
Ask the Expert: Employee Pay Rules for Weather-Related Closings?
Our office was forced to close for two days due to flooding in our area. How do we handle paying the employees who were scheduled to work on these days? What about the people who had scheduled vacation time and personal hours on these days?
Top 10 List of Hard-to-Fill Jobs, According To ASA
The American Staffing Association (ASA) has released its third quarter Skills Gap Index, which identifies the hardest-to-fill occupations in the U.S.,