Employee Relations

Performance-Based Pay Cuts: Legal, not advisable

08/01/2006

Q. We do yearly performance evaluations, during which we review whether employees have met the expectations we laid out during the previous review. If these expectations were not met, can we legally decrease the employee’s salary as punishment? —A.L., Iowa

Overly specific discipline policy can spark liability

08/01/2006

Q. I’m the HR director, and our discipline policy is very complicated and has several different categories of offenses. It says that if employees commit offenses that may result in suspensions of more than three days, employees are allowed a pre-disciplinary counseling conference. Now, my manager thinks that conference should be skipped if the employee has already been counseled for a prior offense in the past 12 months. I’m concerned that this deviates from our policy. Can we do this? —S.D., Illinois

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Avoid discipline that makes ‘Example’ of workers

08/01/2006

Employee discipline, above all else, must be consistent. When it’s not, mistakes put employers at risk of messy discrimination claims …

New retaliation rules: What managers need to know

08/01/2006

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Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Invest more time and money in succession planning

08/01/2006

Employers used to train their workers to prepare for upcoming promotions. Nowadays, more companies invest time and resources in full-scale succession planning for their high-potential employees …

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Metrics: Track each employee’s ‘Baseball card’ statistics

08/01/2006

On the back of each baseball card are the vital statistics that immediately tell you the player’s proficiency in various skills: hitting, fielding, etc. It would be great to have such cards on each of your employees. And, in a sense, you can, says Gary Giles, president of analytics provider ClarityMatters, which was recently acquired by Kronos …

Worried About a New Hire? 7 ‘Salvage Operation’ Tips

08/01/2006

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Do you really need to offer that employee benefit?

08/01/2006

Employee benefits are, in many cases, a lot like other pieces of an organization’s culture: They’re there because, well, they’ve always been there. But in these days of constantly rising health insurance costs, employers can’t afford to keep providing benefits just because that’s the way they’ve done things in the past, said Gary Kushner, president of Kushner & Co. benefits consulting firm …

Cut turnover by identifying disenchanted workers

07/01/2006

Perk up your presentations: 7 tips from Apple’s Steve Jobs

07/01/2006

Dry, rambling HR presentations will cause employees to tune out. To sharpen your presentation techniques, heed these methods of Apple Computer co-founder Steve Jobs, a widely acknowledged presentation master …

Employee Relations

Performance-Based Pay Cuts: Legal, not advisable

Overly specific discipline policy can spark liability

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Avoid discipline that makes ‘Example’ of workers

New retaliation rules: What managers need to know

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Invest more time and money in succession planning

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Metrics: Track each employee’s ‘Baseball card’ statistics

Worried About a New Hire? 7 ‘Salvage Operation’ Tips

Lessons from the 2006 SHRM conference: Do you really need to offer that employee benefit?

Cut turnover by identifying disenchanted workers

Perk up your presentations: 7 tips from Apple’s Steve Jobs

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