Hiring top talent is a challenge within itself, but what do you do with those employees once you get them on board? Priorities will center on maintaining and grooming employees for a successful career with your company. Achieving this is possible with a well-thought-out performance management system that thoroughly addresses the relationship between employee performance […]
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As a human resources professional, one of the ways you can boost employee spirits is to make special holidays fun for all employees. Valentine’s Day is coming up, and although this holiday typically gets associated with the romantic, it’s also a great time for demonstrations of platonic appreciation and caring for your team. Here are a
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In Human Resources, sometimes we get bogged down in the stressful parts of our jobs, such as firing employees and ensuring employee paperwork meets current standards. So today, let’s focus on one of the fun parts of our job: appreciating great employees. No doubt most of your company’s employees, are friendly, intelligent, and do hard work for
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It’s a new year, and your company has new goals and a fresh budget to work with. If your company is expanding, one of the questions in your mind might be whether you should be adding a human resource department. This isn’t always an easy decision, since adding HR creates an expensive line in any
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We’re into 2017, and the time is now for Human Resources departments to encourage management and employees to set company and departmental goals for the year. Unfortunately, not all goals are created equal. The statistics show that only 8% of individuals who make resolutions in the new year accomplish them, with the rest infrequently or
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The cost of a bad hire is staggering, but it goes beyond financial loss. Someone who is a poor fit for a position affects company morale and its reputation as well. Other employees get resentful as they must pick up the slack for someone who only lasted a few months on the job. The situation
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USERRA is the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act, and is a federal law that details how civilian employment is to be managed when an employee has a period of voluntary or involuntary uniformed military service. In the US, uniformed service includes Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Public Health Service Commissioned Corps.
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Owning your own business didn’t appear so difficult before you actually took the leap. Once the leap was over however, the realizations came fast and furious. Many aspects of business don’t arise until you are too far in to turn back. Not that you would. Pesky subjects such as employment law, taxes, worker classification, recruiting,
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Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn has been discussing GOP plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act within the first 100 days of the new presidency. With a go-ahead from Trump’s transition team, they are working on a plan that will repeal the bill quickly, using reconciliation, a budget-bill passing tool that will allow the GOP
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The EEOC has issues new guidance on how businesses need to comply with the federal policies against discrimination. There are several clarifications on what is discriminatory action or behavior that businesses need to be aware of. EEOC Chair Jenny Yang said that the EEOC had identified migrant, immigrant, and other vulnerable populations as a national strategic
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