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New Supervisors: Two Critical Success Factors
New supervisors have a lot to learn about managing their people, and that’s to say nothing of the numerous compliance challenges they face. Compassionate but untrained supervisors can quickly create surprisingly expensive liabilities.
Recordkeeping: How long to hold on?
Litigation is the ultimate test of the adequacy of an employer’s recordkeeping practices, says attorney Allen Kato of the San Francisco office of Fenwick and West LLP. Of course, the courtroom isn’t the ideal place to discover that records are inadequate, incomplete, or nonexistent.
Healthcare Reform: Grants for Workplace Wellness
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) creates a grant program to assist small businesses with providing comprehensive workplace wellness programs.
5 Hiring-Related Pitfalls to Avoid
Your managers may think they’re doing a good job of interviewing and hiring, says New York attorney Barbara Meister Cummins, but most of them are “traveling without a map.” Here are 5 of Cummins’s “Top Failures”:
3 Time-Saving Hiring Tips
Your time is valuable. You don’t want to waste it reviewing resumes of unqualified candidates. You need a system to keep all those unqualified candidates’ credentials off your desk (and off your computer desktop, too).
7 Steps to Starting a Workplace Investigation
When an employee complains that a supervisor or co-worker is harassing or bullying them, or engaging in discriminatory or other illegal conduct, an investigation is often required to resolve the matter. However, few managers are trained in how to conduct them.
Supreme Court To Review Privacy, Background Checks
The U.S. Supreme Court has decided to hear a case regarding whether a federal contractor’s employees in “low risk” positions can be required to undergo extensive background checks.
COBRA Subsidies Extended
President Obama has signed legislation extending the deadline for COBRA continuation coverage subsidies, allowing workers who are involuntarily terminated in March to qualify for the program. The Senate approved the legislation, the Temporary Extension Act of 2010 (H. R. 4691), late on Tuesday.
California Supreme Court Resolves KinCare Issue
As every California employer knows, our state’s employment laws are unique. One unique feature is the KinCare law — which permits employees to use some of their accrued paid sick leave to care for ill family members. Sick leave that is used by an employee under the KinCare law cannot be counted against the employee […]