Category: HR Management & Compliance
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Bush Plan For Kids’ Insurance May Force Cuts In California
New Cafeteria Plan Regulations Proposed
Compensation: Compensable Work Time, Part 1; When Is Travel Time Work Time?
Enforcement: HIPAA in 2007; What Health Care Employers Need to Know
Compensatory Benefit Plans: California Amends Compensatory Stock Plan Rules
Work Arrangements: Telecommuting as a Benefit
You’re the Expert: How Can I Stop the Tradition of Teasing and Pranks in Our Workplace?
Our workplace has a tradition of teasing and pranks. “All in good fun,” say the workers, but I think there are harassment suits building up in some employees’ minds as this continues. How can I get the message across to stop this behavior?
Discipline: What Do You Recommend to Improve Our Discipline Process and Remedy Employee Misconduct?
We are trying to make better sense of our discipline system. After people get a verbal and then a written warning, we suspend and ultimately fire them if the misconduct continues. But the suspension seems more like a gift than a punishment to many of our workers. What do you recommend for the “serious” steps […]
Disabilities: What Can We Do If an Employee’s Bad Hearing Is Endangering Other Employees?
We’ve got a fork truck driver whose hearing is so bad that he can’t hear people shout at him, and he can’t hear warning honks. We think he’s a real danger to other workers. What can we do? — Joel, HR Manager in Merced