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While it’s not quite as exciting as the 2-year delay of the Cadillac Tax, it’s still good news for large employers: The IRS has announced that employers subject to the Section 6055 and 6066 reporting requirements have a little extra time to file.
Unintended consequences. We’ve all experienced them, and (hopefully) they have made us more careful with subsequent decisions. Even better, they may have made us more likely to listen to wise counsel from those around us. After all, someone who has already walked the path can provide insights that may spare us from the potholes ahead.
Workplace violence—it’s a subject so difficult and so frightening that employers may feel paralyzed when considering how to prevent it. If someone is showing violent tendencies, an employer may want to fire the employee to remove the threat. But what if that’s the action that triggers more rage, worsening the risk instead of reducing it? […]
Yesterday’s Advisor presented the first five of the nine key skills of human resources (HR) management from Jay Schleifer and Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR. Today, Schleifer and Bruce present the rest of these essential skills.
Today and tomorrow we revisit the most popular article of our sister publication, the HR Daily Advisor, in which Jay Schleifer and Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR, present nine essential skills of human resource (HR) management. Which of these skills do you already have, and in which areas could you use some training?
Tired of employees looking at their cell phones during important meetings? So is an award-winning actress who called out a reporter who was more involved with his phone than with her appearance at a press conference. And it seems she got some “Joy” from laying down the law to him.
Yesterday we heard from compensation expert Bryan Van Noy about how cash compensation might not be the most effective or attractive aspect of your compensation package. Today, we’ll go over how you can take that into consideration. By Bryan Van Noy Cash Compensation Is Coercive and Manipulative For employers hoping to change employee health habits […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, we looked at some of the results of BLR’s 2015–2016 Holiday Survey. Today we’ll look at the rest of those results. Deck the Halls If their holiday decorations were within reason, 69.9% of survey participants allowed employees to display them. Another 20.4% allowed employees to display whatever they wanted. Display of nonreligious […]
We created a position 3 years ago that we now believe was misclassified as exempt/salaried and should have been non-exempt/hourly. We have had an individual in the position for the past 3 years and are going to change them to hourly ASAP. Importantly, we also want to address potential overtime worked during this time. What […]
Wage growth—or lack thereof—continues to be a major issue plaguing the U.S. market, but are some industries faring better than others? New findings from CareerBuilder and Economic Modeling Specialists Intl. (EMSI) reveal which industries have experienced some of the biggest increases—and biggest declines—in postrecession wage growth.