by Tom Engel | Jul 26, 2017 | Compliance, HR 101
Work environments can be as diverse as the people working in them. Often times, employees wish to decorate their workstations with personal items to make their spaces feel comfortable while they perform their tasks. What sort of policies can your company put in effect...
by Tom Engel | Jul 19, 2017 | Compensation, Compliance, HR 101, Salaries and Wages
Sometimes mistakes happen. When those mistakes have to do with work time and payroll, tensions can arise between employers and employees. Of course you don’t want to pay for work that wasn’t needed or you had cancelled, but if a good employee mistakenly...
by Tom Engel | Jul 12, 2017 | Compliance, HR 101
Even if an employee has exhausted their FMLA leave for the year, their condition may fall under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). The ADA defines a disabled employee as one who has a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major...
by Tom Engel | Jul 5, 2017 | Compliance, Hot Topics, HR 101
Completely banning cell phones is not something you can legally do. It is, however, possible to create policies that encompass the appropriate time and place for cellphone use. Employees can be expected to give their undivided attention to the work you pay them to...
by Lee Hallett | Jun 5, 2017 | HR 101
First off, I promise that what follows next doesn’t involve these three walking into a bar. If you know me well, you know I like to joke. However, after interviewing these recruits, these candidates created quite a sobering awareness and I couldn’t keep this to...
by Lee Hallett | May 31, 2017 | Hot Topics, HR 101
There’s an old joke about an executive who worries that training their employees will be a bad investment because they might leave, to which the sage CEO says, “What if we don’t train them and they stay?” There are certainly a lot of misconceptions about training...