Category: HR Management & Compliance
There are dozens of details to take care of in the day-to-day operation of your department and your company. We give you case studies, news updates, best practices and training tips that keep your organization fully in compliance with ever-changing employment law, and you fully aware of emerging HR trends.
Short Takes: Social Security Numbers
Short Takes: Religious Exemptions
Benefits: What Risks Do We Run If We Alter Our Policies and Benefit Plans to Retain Older Workers?
We’ve been brainstorming ideas for retaining our older workers who have skills we need and that we have trouble recruiting for. Most of our ideas would require us to bend our policies. We’re considering offering our older workers these incentives:
You’re the Expert: What can we do to beef up our hiring system to get hires that stick with the organization?
We’re finding that too many of our new hires don’t last very long at the company. We think a lot of the problem is in our selection process. What can we do to beef up our hiring system to get hires that stick with the organization?
Religious Discrimination: What Can I Do with a Senior Manager Who Pushes His Religion on His Employees?
We have a situation. One of our senior managers is pushing his religion. He prays at meetings and holds prayer groups and Bible studies. He insists they are “voluntary,” but his employees feel that if they don’t attend, they won’t get a shot at raises and promotions. What should I do about a manager who […]
Wage and Hour: Do I Have to Pay for Time Employees Spend Going Through Security Screenings and Changing Clothes?
Many of our employees have to spend time at the workplace before and after their actual work. They have lengthy security checks, protective equipment that must be donned, and then a 15-minute ride to their workstations. The employees are saying that they should be paid for all this time, but I don’t think so because […]
Cut Turnover, Build Retention: Experts Explain How to Do Both
Can you retain your best employees even as competition in the job market stiffens? Sure you can … if you know these turnover-reducing, retention-increasing techniques. When talk turns to turnover and retention, we’ve all heard the gloomy statistics. Of every 10 workers in your organization now, three will retire over the next 10 years. Out […]
All the Changes in Employment Law You Need to Know at One Time … in One Beautiful Place
BLR announces its first annual Employment Law Update conference … all you need to know about changes in the law this year … in one beautiful setting—Walt Disney World. Who says you can’t keep up with the latest in employment law changes and enjoy it at the same time? Certainly not BLR. And we intend […]
Are You Actually De-Motivating Your Employees?
Research shows that workers come on the job already motivated, and common business practices rob them of it. The researchers offer some tools to reverse this process. “Most companies have it all wrong. They don’t have to motivate their employees. They have to stop de-motivating them.” With this one attention-getting statement, three researchers recently demolished […]