Businesses up and down the East Coast will need to make some tough calls next payday as they try to figure out how to handle the days workers didn’t … Read more
Benefit Trends: What Your Employees Can Expect – and Be Planning For
Our insurance agent delivered the bad news last week – the company’s health insurance premiums are going up 19 percent next year. To curb this huge cost … Read more
NLRB Now Requires Employers to Post Employee Rights
By Raymond C. Haley III This week, over the dissent of Board Member Brian Hayes, the National Labor Relations Board issued a final rule addressing … Read more
Staffing Firm’s Lead HR on Inc.’s List of Fastest Growing Companies
From the giant IPO-bound staffing firm Staffmark Holdings, to Indianapolis’ 14-person HR services firm FlashPoint, 156 self-described human resource … Read more
Exactly What Trade Secrets Are Former Employees Barred From Using?
By Michael R. Greco If there is one thing that non-compete and trade secret plaintiffs and defendants can agree upon, it is that injunctions need to be … Read more
Health Care Reform: 10% of Companies Say They’ll Drop Coverage in 2014
Although the real impact of health care reform may still be a few years away, companies are starting to jockey for position on exactly what they plan to … Read more
Survey Finds America’s Tough Jobs Are Getting Even Tougher to Fill
With 25 million Americans out of work or underemployed, you’d think it wouldn’t be too hard to find a teacher, an administrative assistant, or … Read more
Life in a Cubicle: How the Way We Work Is Changing Dramatically
How many of your working hours have you spent, like me, stuck in a bland and impersonal cubicle in some bland and impersonal office somewhere? More to the … Read more
Employment Brand? Study Says Half of Companies Don’t Have One
Employment branding is one of the most talked about topics in the HR world. Yet, according to a new study from CareerBuilder, nearly half of HR managers … Read more
Want to Be More Productive At Work? Then Surf The Web (Really!)
I had a friend who swore by the idea that studies either confirm the obvious or are incorrect. He would have a field day with the study reported on by The … Read more