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President announces initiative for veterans’ federal government employment President Obama has signed an Executive Order (EO) on the Employment of Veterans in the federal government, which establishes the Veterans Employment Initiative for the Executive Branch. The initiative is designed to

During an economic hardship, the last thing you want to do is lose your most talented, productive employees.

The Americans with Disabilities Act has very strict rules about what you can and cannot do during the hiring process.
If you remember one simple rule, you'll be in good shape: You can ask people about their abilities, but you can't ask about their disabilities.

Candidates - Quality vs Convenience by Careerbuilder.com Limiting your search to local candidates limits your recruiting. The quickest way to limit the quality of candidates you receive is to place tight constraints on geography when recruiting. Seems obvious, right? And yet many businesses fail to recruit

The spontaneous and unpredictable nature of the job interview can create hidden traps for the unwary employer. Things that you say with the most innocent intent can be misconstrued as prejudicial -- or used later as fodder for a lawsuit

Twice as many employees with less than two years of service voluntarily leave an organization as do those with more than two years of tenure, according to a study of worker attrition rates by Sirota Survey Intelligence, specialists in attitude research.

 Government contractors are required to make their employment processes accessible to individuals with disabilities and to special disabled veterans.

Here are some of the many factors to be considered in establishing a wellness program. Steps for setting up a wellness program are outlined at ¶84,020.

What steps need to be taken when setting up an HR department? Human resources professional Nina Drake, SPHR, Deputy Director, Human Resources, for the City of

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Here are two sample job analysis questionnaires. The first is geared to clerical and administrative positions. The second relates to employees who will be called on to manage people and make decisions affecting your business.

Each year thousands of employers are sued by employees for wrongful discharge.

Advantages of Rehabilitation; Without a well-thought-out rehabilitation program, an employer's workers' compensation costs can spiral out of control.

Checklist: Establishing a Wellness Program

Checklist: Regular Rate and Policy Guidance for Overtime Pay: Here are three documents that are designed to help you comply. Included are two checklists one spells out which payments to an employee have to be included in computing the employee's regular rate of pay, while the second lists the payments that can be excluded.

Checklist: Setting Up an HR Department. What steps need to be taken when setting up an HR department? Human resources professional Nina Drake, SPHR, Deputy Director, Human Resources, for the City of Las Vegas, provides the following a step-by-step checklist of issues to consider...

During an economic hardship, the last thing you want to do is lose your most talented, productive employees.

The Americans with Disabilities Act has very strict rules about what you can and cannot do during the hiring process.
If you remember one simple rule, you'll be in good shape: You can ask people about their abilities, but you can't ask about their disabilities.

Although your branding does start with your recruiting process, you still need to be very aware of what’s going on inside your company with the employees who are already hired.

What do Warren Buffett, Walt Disney and Ross Perot all have in common? Besides being iconic American businessmen, all three have "newspaper carrier" on their boyhood résumés.

 Government contractors are required to make their employment processes accessible to individuals with disabilities and to special disabled veterans.

Business people are finding creative ways to design and modify alternatives to downsizings because reductions in force are costly, devastating to the employees impacted, and generate public ill will. If there are other options, wise employers explore them.

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The following checklists are designed to help employers prevent violence in their workplaces by implementing a comprehensive violence-prevention program.

Management is a very important part of improving relationships with employees at your company. 

The best way to use behavioral-based interviewing techniques is further along in the candidate selection process.

If you're still in a position right now where you need to fire people, you've got to make really good decisions. Don't make the mistake of trying to treat everybody the same.

According to Penelope Trunk of TIME magazine, “Generation Y is forcing companies to think more creatively about the work-life balance.” And those employers who do are hiring more and more Gen Y employees everyday.

When it comes to hiring, don't expect the best person for the job to always be a local candidate. Many times, that's not the case.

The number of jobless managers and executives willing to relocate for new jobs has plunged 35 percent from pre-recession levels, according to a survey by the international outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc.

Not as much as before.

Employee leasing is a term that can mean different things in different circumstances; however, it generally refers to a situation where a company "employs'' the

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Some non-union workers, in certain circumstances, are protected by the National Labor Relations Act.

A plaintiff is not required to pursue any administrative action or remedy prior to filing suit (Sec. 25-1-29, H. 389, L. 1997, effective August 1, 1997).

Any person or entity violating the New Hire Act of 1997 may be subject to an administrative penalty not to exceed $25 per violation (Sec. 25-11-17).

In addition to another penalty under law, an employer that knowingly violates Alaska's new hire reporting requirements is liable for a civil penalty of less tha

In an action brought by the labor department under this section, an employer found liable for failing to pay wages within the time required by Sec.

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