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How to Write Effective and Legal Job Descriptions

01/19/2007

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Independent Contractors: The Legal Boundaries

01/05/2007

Arbitrating Employee Disputes

01/03/2007

How to Create Ergonomic Office Workstations

01/03/2007

Design development plan around person’s life, not just the job

01/01/2007

Managers traditionally use employee development plans to give employees a say in the direction of their careers and to assess the organization’s future talent pool. Instead of using the tool just to focus on what an employee’s career would look like over the next one to five years, what if you used it to focus on what the person’s life would look like during that period? …

Walking competition generates ROI of 10 times the cost

01/01/2007

Employees at Amherst, N.Y.-based Ivoclar Vivadent started walking in the spring, and for 20 weeks, they didn’t stop. Thirty teams of four people each used pedometers to count their steps and competed to see who could walk the most. …

Employers put more punch in holiday parties this year

01/01/2007

About 8 in 10 employers plan to host an employee holiday party this year, about the same as last year, says an annual Challenger, Gray & Christmas survey of HR pros. The change? They’re spending more …

Can you convert all employees to nonexempt?

01/01/2007

Q. For years, we’ve always had salaried employees. But we have many employees who always come in late and leave early. This is hard to track. We are thinking of making them hourly employees and getting a time clock. If I make them all hourly employees, I know that I have to pay overtime, but it might be worth it. Can I legally change their status from exempt to hourly, or are some employees required to be salaried? —B.B., New York

Worker confidence rebounds statewide, except in Tampa area

01/01/2007

After a sharp dip in September, economic confidence among employees in Florida rose by 3.5 points in October, reaching a Hudson Employment Index of 118.7 …

Setting clear performance standards

01/01/2007

“I didn’t know what you expected … Well, no one told me to do it that way!” Have you heard this complaint before? Probably so.

Employee Relations

How to Write Effective and Legal Job Descriptions

Independent Contractors: The Legal Boundaries

Arbitrating Employee Disputes

How to Create Ergonomic Office Workstations

Design development plan around person’s life, not just the job

Walking competition generates ROI of 10 times the cost

Employers put more punch in holiday parties this year

Can you convert all employees to nonexempt?

Worker confidence rebounds statewide, except in Tampa area

Setting clear performance standards

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