In the private sector business world, virtually every company has a policy covering travel advances to employees. I’ve dealt with a number of different … Read more
Employment Law in Puerto Rico: More Worker Rights Than in U.S.
By Celia Joseph Puerto Rico is a Commonwealth of the United States easily accessed by travelers from the U. S. mainland, and its citizens are U. S. … Read more
Want Better Employee Performance? Here’s My Management Tip For That
My only tip for HR managers? Don’t suck! Oh wait, that really isn’t a tip, it’s more of a mantra I try to give my hiring managers (how’s that for … Read more
Five Things To Do When An Employee Goes Into a Funk
We’ve all been there. An otherwise well-performing employee is in a slump. They may be missing deadlines that they used to hit or perhaps they are … Read more
Building a Strategic HR Plan: The Best Time You’ll Ever Invest in Your Team
When historians write about the great battles throughout human history, invariably one of the keys to victory is a military leader with a brilliant … Read more
Reimbursing Employees for Business Expenses: Tax Benefit or Tax Bomb?
Since I had to write a big check to Uncle Sam last week, I wanted to share my family’s experience with unreimbursed employee expenses and the unintended … Read more
Study: Only 1 in 3 Employees Say They Are Engaged in Their Job
Here’s a sobering but not all that surprising stat: only a third of workers (31 percent) say they are engaged in their job, and 17 percent admit that … Read more
The FAA’s Controller Problem? It’s More Than a Few Sleepy Employees
One of my favorite games on my phone is Air Control. You’ve got control of an airfield and you direct airplanes to the ground in an orderly and safe … Read more
HR Roundtable: The Big Question – “What If I’m Not an ‘A’ Player?”
The April HR Roundtable in Cincinnati took an interesting turn this month because it was about a topic that truly tilted at the windmills of traditional … Read more
How “Shoot First, Aim Later” Tactics Dearly Cost the EEOC
By Gerald L. Maatman, Jr. and Christopher J. DeGroff Joining a growing line of cases reflecting judicial intolerance for questionable litigation tactics, … Read more