What Are Today's College Graduates Looking For?
You need the talent & creativity brought by recent college graduates, especially when you take into consideration the looming employment gap occurring as Baby Boomers retire.

What Should HR's Role Be in the 21st Century?
Human resources long-term planning no longer works because the pace of change is increasingly complex and unpredictable.

Perk Place: The Benefits Offered by Google and Others May Be Grand, but They're All Business
Companies want to create both an appealing environment to attract and retain employees and make people feel they belong, but they also want to increase productivity.

Gadgets at Work
Underlying this emerging trend are young and tech-savvy workers entering the workplace, lower technology costs and the need to innovate quickly using web applications.

Most Employers Voluntarily Offer Time Off to Vote
Whether workers are entitled to take time off from work to vote is governed by state law. Be sure to check your state laws for the law that applies in your state(s).

New Developments on Verifying Employment Eligibility
Learn the new rules for Form I-9, which employers must complete to verify that new hires are authorized to work in the United States.

Sleepless in America
A new Sleep in America poll released by the National Sleep Foundation finds longer work days leave Americans nodding off on the job, costing employers billions in lost productivity.

OSHA Benefits for Small Businesses
OSHA encourages all businesses to establish safety and health programs and find and fix hazards to prevent workplace injuries and illnesses.

How Individual States Regulate Safety and Health Programs
The OSH Act of 1970 encourages states to develop and operate their own job safety and health plans under the authority of state law.

After the Pomp and Circumstance - Empowering College Graduates
According to some surveys, today’s college graduates seek more than status and money. “A meaning to life” mantra is also ringing in their ears.

How Small Businesses Recruit at Colleges
Remember that during recruiting all potential applicants are either potential customers or know potential customers.

Tap Into this Talent Pool - College Students with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Labor has made available a free database of 1,769 new job candidates with disabilities seeking work in a wide variety of fields.

Can Social Media Enhance Employee Communication?
Social media has begun to improve companies' ability to enhance employee communication.

What Can You Do to Adapt and Grow Future Leaders?
Tomorrows leaders can be challenged today to broaden their experience base.

Are You Losing Employees You Want to Keep?
The cost to replace an employee who leaves is 50 percent of that person's salary. Here are five tools for creating an employee retention tool kit.

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Monitoring Employee Communications
Technology now makes it possible for employers to keep track of virtually all workplace communications by any employee -- on the phone and in cyberspace. And many employers take advantage of these tracking devices.

Tags: SHRM, employee communications, legal compliance, employee privacy rights, privacy laws, policies, procedures, Lisa Guerin, Nolo

Workplace Searches: Dos and Don'ts
It happens to even the best employers: a sudden rash of thefts, a worker threatening violence, or some other possible misconduct or illegal activity in your workplace. Your first step must be to investigate the situation.

Tags: legal compliance, employee privacy rights, privacy laws, policies, procedures, Lisa Guerin, Nolo

Disconnect Between Federal, State Overtime Rules Puzzles Employers
When final regulations governing white-collar exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) took effect in August of 2004, the U.S. Department of Labor's goal was to provide simplicity, reduce the volume of litigation, and update the standards to conform to the modern workplace.

Tags: FLSA, Alaska, Arkansas, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Washington, Connecticut, Illinois, Kentucky

Paid paternal leave still not standard, maternity leave insufficient even among 'best' employers, study shows
Nearly one-quarter of the best employers for working mothers provide four or fewer weeks of paid maternity leave, and half (52 percent) provide six weeks or less, according to a new fact sheet released by the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWPR).

Tags: Institute for Women's Policy Research, families, paternal leave, policies, procedures, FMLA, CCH

Providing Pregnancy & Parental Leave
Not many employers provide paid maternity or paternity leave to the new parents in their workforce. No federal law requires you to offer paid time off to new parents.

Tags: families, FMLA, disability, ADA, parental leave, Lisa Guerin, Nolo

Guidelines for Handling Discrimination and Harassment Complaints
Most employers are anxious when faced with discrimination and harassment complaints. And with good reason: Such complaints can lead to workplace tension, government investigations, and even costly legal battles. If the complaint is mishandled, even unintentionally, an employer may unwittingly put itself out of business.

Tags: discrimination, harassment, legal compliance, employee discipline, problem employees, Lisa Guerin, Nolo

Data Safeguards Rules Exist, Even for Non-Financial Institutions?
Under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, the Federal Trade Commission enforces the “Safeguards Rule,” requiring financial institutions to, among other things, identify one or more individuals to coordinate the institution’s information security program, identify and assess the risks to personal information in the financial institution’s possession, evaluate the effectiveness of safeguards for controlling those risks and select service providers that can maintain appropriate safeguards.

Tags: FTC, information security program, legal compliance, policies, procedures, Venulex

Federal Judge Certifies Class in Gender Discrimination Lawsuit Against Pharmaceutical Company
In one of the largest gender discrimination class actions ever brought, female sales employees at Novartis Pharmaceuticals ("Novartis") have been given the okay to proceed as a class in their $200 million lawsuit against the company.

Tags: discrimination, New York, EEOC, legal compliance, Civil Rights Act, Venulex

Can an At-Will Employee Lawfully be Terminated Before the First Day of Work?
According to a Connecticut appeals court, an employer can terminate an at-will employment relationship at any time—even before an employee's first day of work.

Tags: Connecticut, at-will employment, legal compliance, Venulex

Department of Homeland Security Announces New Safe-Harbor Procedures for Employers Who Receive a “No-Match” Letter
If an employer follows the procedures provided in the new regulation, DHS will not allege that the employer had ‘constructive knowledge’ it was employing an illegal worker.

Tags: new employees, Department of Homeland Security, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, illegal workers, Social Security Administration, Employment Eligibility Verification Form, Form I-9, Venulex

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