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When you hear the word “broker,” what comes to mind? Insurance? Real estate? Brokers are typically people who have access to several options (in whatever their specialty is) and can help you narrow down your choices. Employee benefits brokers are exactly that: people who have access to (and information about) various employee benefit options who […]
What are the most common types of FMLA abuse? Do you have employees who might be abusing the FMLA system? In a CER webinar titled “Stop FMLA/CFRA Abuse: 10 Ways Employers Are Combating Chronic Call-Ins and Fraud,” Marc L. Jacuzzi, Esq., differentiated between suspected abuse versus fraudulent use of the system, and also outlined some […]
When our employees go on leave, such as FMLA leave, we adjust their appraisal dates to reflect the leave time. For example, if they take 3 months of leave, they get their appraisal at the 15-month point rather than the usual 12 months. Now some of them are saying that the FMLA says that leave […]
Strand, owner of consultancy HR Dynamics Inc., offered his comments on the three methods at a recent webinar hosted by BLR/HRhero. Ranking Method This is non-quantifiable and subjective, but is a basic simple approach, says Strand. You arrange all jobs in rank order of their relative duties, responsibilities, qualification requirements, that is, their “importance” to […]
Intermittent FMLA leave is allowed when an employee (either male or female) has started the process to adopt or foster a child. This is an area that can easily get overlooked by supervisors (and employees) who think of the FMLA as providing leave for medical conditions. Make sure your supervisors know that FMLA is an […]
As 2021 winds down, our EntertainHR blog approaches its seven-year anniversary next month. Therefore, in homage of what not to do in the workplace (based on examples of from television, film, and other popular media) and in the vein of shameless self-promotion, we contributors to EntertainHR have decided to regale our readers with a top […]
HR professionals must handle employee disagreements every day. Meanwhile, many businesses let their employees work remotely, and as a result, today’s HR pros must explore ways to manage disagreements among remote staff. You want remote workers to feel empowered, and they must communicate and collaborate with one another. If disagreements arise among remote staff, you […]
The annual employee engagement survey and its outcomes are often a bugbear in many organizations. Powerful analytics slice and dice the surveys in an attempt to extract vital information to allow organizations to better understand why their engagement might be low and lackluster. In today’s tight labor market, employee engagement has been put firmly back […]
Can you give guidance on when the missed meal period penalty has to be paid? Does it have to be paid if an employee takes a 28-minute meal break, or if an employee takes their meal break after 51/2 or after 6 hours?— Anonymous
An employee was out on PTO for medical reasons. She was out longer than PTO was available but the company paid her anyway. Now that she has returned, they want to make the employee pay back the additional PTO time. Is this allowed? Since they didn’t make this a condition of the unpaid PTO being […]