Managing Employees
Managing Vacation Requests
Summer is upon us and with that, perfect weather, kids out of school, and people desiring to get away from their daily routines. As the employer, you must juggle the inevitable requests for time off while at the same time, ensuring you don’t impact productivity beyond what your business can bear. It can be difficult…
Read MoreDefensive HR – Retaining Employment Records
Retaining Employment Records When it comes to protecting your business from lawsuits, claims and settlement demands, it is critical that you maintain accurate payroll and employment records for your employees. Reducing the potential for claims and lawsuits against your business is dependent upon your ability to demonstrate your compliance unequivocally. Let’s take a look at…
Read MoreDealing with Difficult Employees
As a business owner or manager, it is likely you will need to deal with a difficult employee or HR situation at some point. It’s also likely that you may not be an expert in dealing with challenging people due to the fact that, hopefully, these larger issues are an infrequent occurrence. Such situations might…
Read MoreDefensive HR – Preventing Wage and Hour Claims
Wage and Hour claims could be one of the biggest threats employers face. In recent years, there have been an increasing number of high-profile wage and hour claims that were settled on a class-action basis. The Private Attorney General Act (PAGA) gives far more power to the claimant to seek class-action status on behalf of…
Read MoreDefensive HR – Managing Employees with a Purpose
How you manage your employees is by far the most critical aspect of bulletproofing your HR and your business. Most employees are forgiving and flexible with an employer’s lax policy or practice, but it’s always that one employee that is going to test any weaknesses in your HR. That is why its advisable to set…
Read MorePTO vs Sick and Vacation Policies
Many employers choose to create PTO policies and it works well for them. However, to determine if it is a good fit for your company, let us explore the policy and pitfalls. First off, PTO is a term that is used to define a policy that allows time off for any reason, including vacation and…
Read MoreWorkplace HR Trends in 2022
As we close out another unprecedented year, we look to 2022 and what kinds of workplace trends small business owners should be thinking about. With many businesses growing fast, labor short, and government still churning the Covid waters, it’s tough to predict what the year will look like, but we can already see trends happening…
Read MoreNever Fear Unwanted Employee Resignations Again
The labor market has been changed like nothing we’ve seen in recent years. No one knows if these changes will be permanent or temporary, but certainly for the long term, we’re in a tight and ever shifting labor market. That means it will be tougher to hire and tougher to keep employees. For the near…
Read MoreVaccine Mandates – the Latest
On September 9th, The White House announced a COVID-19 Action Plan including a directive to OSHA: “The Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is developing a rule that will require all employers with 100 or more employees to ensure their workforce is fully vaccinated or require any workers who remain unvaccinated to…
Read MoreVaccinate or Not Vaccinate?
To Vaccinate or Not To Vaccinate In the Workplace These days, we get this question asked often. Answer: it is at the employer’s discretion. There may be a mandate in the near future for employers over 100 employees, but for the time being, we will address the question in general. Both the federal Equal Employment Opportunity…
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