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Talent and Performance Management—What’s Really Happening?
What’s happening with talent and performance management in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out! Please participate in our brief survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll get answers to these questions and more: Do you have a […]
What are Your Legal Obligations Related to Payroll Administration?
For any business that hires employees, it’s important to understand the legal obligations related to processing payroll. Typically, an employer is free to set up its own system of payroll administration and can choose the frequency of pay as well as the day of the week that is the designated pay day. However, there are […]
Talent and Performance Management—What’s Really Happening?
By Stephen D. Bruce, PHR Editor, HR Daily Advisor What’s happening with talent and performance management in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out! Please participate in our brief survey and see how what you are doing stacks up against what other successful companies are doing. We’ll get answers […]
The effects of impending minimum wage increases
by Cornell Bang The effort to increase the minimum wage at the federal, state, and municipal level continues to gain momentum. At the municipal level, Los Angeles voted in 2015 to increase its minimum wage from $9 an hour to $15 by 2020, San Francisco voted in 2014 to raise its minimum wage from $12.25 […]
Choose Your Words Carefully Regarding Mental Health
With or without sensitivity training, most people try to be considerate when speaking with someone with a physical disability or a health condition, and they choose their words carefully so as not to offend the individual. However, these same considerate people often forget that things can be said—or not said—which can hurt the feelings of […]
Secrets to making reference-based pricing work
In order for reference-based pricing to work, health plan sponsors should do it in a way that involves implementing best practices for cost analysis, claim repricing, plan design, patient advocacy (including balance billing protection when necessary), and member education. Ways to Make RBP Succeed Employers, administrators, brokers and courts have begun to realize that determining the value […]
What’s Better than Cash Compensation? Almost Anything!
By Bryan Van Noy Yesterday we heard from cofounder of Sonic Boom Wellness, Bryan Van Noy, about some of the major reasons cash compensation isn’t cutting it these days. Today we’ll hear a bit more about that, plus some basic alternative ideas. Cash Compensation Is Coercive and Manipulative For employers hoping to change employee health […]
Kentucky Court Expands FMLA’s Antiretaliation Protections
By Lacey A. Napper, JD A recent decision by a Kentucky federal court has extended the antiretaliation provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to employees who never requested FMLA leave or directly engaged in any “protected conduct.”
Ask the Expert: Do Migraine Headaches Qualify as ‘Serious Health Condition’?
I have an employee who is requesting FMLA paperwork due to having migraines. From my records, I do not see where she has missed 3 consecutive days of work in a row at any given time. She does meet all preliminary requirement for FMLA (worked 12 months, worked 1250 hours, and we have more than […]