Remember back when 5 percent was considered an average annual pay increase? Maybe you don’t, but I do, and although we haven’t seen anything … Read more
How Facebook Photos of Drinking Ruined an Employee’s FMLA Claim
By Eric B. Meyer About a year-and-a-half into Sara Jaszczyszyn’s employment with Advantage Health Physician Network, she began taking intermittent … Read more
The Rewards of Digital Detox: What Happens When Employees Unplug?
There are certainly advantages to having employees accessible 24/7, able to solve problems and respond to employer needs whenever and wherever. But at what … Read more
No Way Around It: President’s Win Cements Future of “ObamaCare”
President Barack Obama’s victory cements the Affordable Care Act, expanding coverage to millions but leaving weighty questions about how to pay for it and … Read more
Handling Intermittent Leave (and Not Intermittently Losing Your Mind)
During my webinar last week, I addressed the following question: An employee is demanding intermittent FMLA for migraines basically whenever she feels like … Read more
Showing Value: How HR Needs to Rethink Itself for a Changing World
Here’s another example of how HR just can’t get any respect. A new global survey of more than 400 senior executives from from audit, tax and … Read more
Health Care Reform: Today’s Election Will Decide Its Ultimate Future
The highest court in the country upheld most of the Affordable Care Act in June. But everybody knew it was only an overture. The law “will fall in … Read more
Tapping the Untapped: Including Deaf Employees in the Workforce
By Patrick H. Hicks and Kristina Escamilla Gilmore Diversity in the workplace benefits employees, employers and society as a whole. Today, employers … Read more
A Workplace Truism to Remember: You Get What You Reward
One HR blogger I enjoy reading is Mike Haberman. He recently boiled down the entire discussion of employee rewards to this salient point: The whole concept … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Talking Politics in the Office? It Never Comes to Much Good
I’ve worked and managed for a long time, in a number of office environments, and if there is one constant in all that experience, it’s this: … Read more