Even with Great Rewards, Many Employees Are Thinking About Leaving
Let’s get down to brass tacks: Pay is the reason people go to work.
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E-Alerts: Workers’ Compensation: Fraudulent Concealment Claim Dismissed; Worker Knew of Injury Before Employer Did
Darcy Jensen, a module team builder for Amgen Inc., filed a workers’ comp claim as a result of health problems that she believed stemmed from exposure to laboratory animals. Several months later, the company discovered mold in the building where Jensen had worked. Jensen eventually sued Amgen under an exception to the workers’ compensation system […]
Wage & Hour: Must We Pay Living Wage to All Employees?
Our city has a living wage ordinance in effect. Our operations are outside the city limits, but part of our business involves providing services to city agencies. Even though those services represent only a portion of our business, the city wants us to pay the higher living wage rate to all our employees since we […]
Pay-for-Performance—Is Management Willing?
Pay-for-Performance is the hot new approach to compensation, says expert Brooke Green; however, you shouldn’t attempt it if management isn’t willing to do its job in performance evaluation. Green, who is a principal at Hay Group, offered her tips at a recent webinar sponsored by HRHero/BLR. In yesterday’s Advisor, she suggested that HR managers ask […]
Getting Beyond the ‘Charity Model’: Tips for Recruiting Employees with Disabilities
Few dispute research showing that a diverse workforce contributes to an employer’s success, but diversity efforts often don’t explore the benefits of recruiting people with disabilities. However, that’s beginning to change.
Survey: Wage/Hour Suits Lead Litigation Parade
In yesterday’s Advisor, we featured highlights from the 2011 Fulbright & Jaworski Litigation Trends Survey; today, what the survey revealed about litigation budgets and wage/hour litigation, plus good news about your job descriptions. Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P. is a leading full-service international law firm, with approximately 850 lawyers. Litigation Spending Is Up Spending on litigation […]
Drugs & Alcohol: Do I Have to Interview an Applicant Who Takes Medical Marijuana?
One of our current employees has referred a friend for employment under our employee referral program, which rewards employees who refer applicants if we end up hiring them. The employee mentioned that the friend uses marijuana for medical purposes. I don’t really want to consider this person because we are a drug-free workplace, but I’m […]
Is Winning at All Costs the Right Strategy?
By Catherine Moreton Gray, JD
89% of Moonlighters Plan to Keep Second Jobs in 2016
Slow wage growth continues to impact many U.S. workers, with 89% of moonlighters planning to keep their part-time second jobs in 2016 either fully or in part, and over 50% doing so to keep up with “cost of living,” according to a new survey by Indeed.com.
NLRB puts employees on the spot
by Burton J. Fishman In a ruling that could make workplace investigations at unionized facilities all but impossible, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) reversed a 37-year-old precedent that protected employees from retaliation. Under the prior Anheuser-Busch standard, employers did not have to hand over witness statements, particularly from employees, to unions in discipline cases. […]