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The short answer to your question is “Yes, it is generally legal to reduce an employee’s pay in order to account for unsatisfactory performance.” Just as employers may increase employee wages for exemplary performance, an employee’s paycheck can also be a viable method for deterring or improving poor performance.
By Ashley Harrison Sakakeeny, JD The U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals— which covers Connecticut, New York, and Vermont—recently announced a surprisingly employer-friendly test for evaluating whether unpaid interns should be classified as employees.
By Andy Marken
A new survey has found that U.S. employers aren’t expecting to fully fund their annual employee bonuses in 2015.
Yesterday’s Advisor explored some of the results of our Employee File Management Survey, sponsored by People Doc. Today, we’ll go over more results as well as some basic demographics from that survey. How Easy Is Distribution? The largest share of participants (45.6%) find that document distribution is sometimes challenging but manageable. 33.6% of respondents said […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, Claudia St. John defined what trust in the workplace really means; today, she provides five steps to restoring trust if it has become an issue at your company.
by Dan Oswald Have you ever had someone encourage you to dream big? Someone who said you could be anything you wanted to be? Maybe you were lucky enough to have a parent or grandparent who convinced you that there are no limits. Or maybe a teacher or coach inspired you to consider opportunities that […]
“We need to hire 95,000 to 100,000 new employees in the next few months,” says Tammy Caldwell, United Parcel Service, Inc.’s (UPS) director of talent acquisition. Your hiring needs may not be that gargantuan, but you can learn from UPS’s strong social and mobile recruiting program. UPS, recent winner of the 2013 Workforce Optimas Gold […]
In the volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) business landscape leaders face many challenges requiring aggressive, sustained talent management strategies to prepare them for success.
You won’t know unless you have an effective methodology in place to measure it, say renowned experts from ROI Institute, Inc.