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Tag: HR
Your #1 On-the-Job Headache? Let Us Guess…
(And no, we’re not talking about Bernie in sales.) Your #1 on-the-job headache is most likely something relating to employee leaves. Are we right? Intermittent leaves. Baby-bonding leaves. Medical leaves. And bogus leaves—probably your very least favorite thing of all. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has been called “HR’s #1 Headache,” and it’s […]
Friday Fun: Lawyers Acting Silly
We’ve just uploaded the video footage of our “ERI Players” skit – A Day in the Life of HR – from November’s California Employment Law Update conference in San Francisco. The “ERI Players” are lawyers and HR experts who spoke at the conference, joined by John Young, a BLR employee – the skit covers a […]
Investigations Are Tricky—These Sample Questions Will Help
Misconduct investigations are never easy for any HR manager. But they’re necessary and no one’s going to escape that duty for long. To make the job a little easier, attorney Jennifer Brown Shaw offers her suggestions for how to brief and question the complaining employee, the accused employee, and witnesses. Shaw is a partner in […]
HR Metrics: Two Common – and Fatal – Mistakes
Measuring HR success to the satisfaction of the CEO remains an elusive goal. Bottom line: You want funding, and they want metrics. Today’s expert has practical help for metrics that are failing to make an impression in the C-suite.
When an Employee Asks You Not To Investigate
You always encourage employees to bring their complaints to you, so you’re glad that Sally came forward and told you about her boss’s unwelcome advances. But there’s a catch: “I don’t want you to investigate,” Sally tells you. “I just thought you should know.”
Has Safety Landed on Your HR Desk Yet?
By Jennifer Carsen, Esq. Just My E-pinion Is safety part of your portfolio yet? In more and more organizations, HR is taking over safety management. Fortunately, HR managers tend to make great safety managers. In fact (don’t tell the safety people), they often do a better job than technical safety experts do.
Don’t Become the Next Wage/Hour Target
As more and more employers get slapped with wage and hour lawsuits that often challenge exempt classification, it’s becoming critical for employers to take a close look at their own operations and policies to determine what they can do to keep from becoming the next target. Below are some audit tips from attorney Kurt A. […]
Do Aggressive Decisions Save Money?
Many employers are now making the unhappy discovery that their finance and operations people made aggressive exempt-status and other wage and hour-related determinations that are coming back to haunt their organizations in the form of big wage and hour lawsuits and payouts. Attorney Kurt A. Franklin of the San Francisco office of Hanson Bridgett, LLP, […]
Brand-New Employees Wanting Family Leave?
Today, another question from the CED mailbag: What to do when a brand-new employee wants to take family leave? Our answer below, along with a special deal on a resource that no California employer should be without.