HR Management

The HR I.Q. Test: February ’16

02/01/2016

Here’s your monthly quiz on HR news and trends.

Federal budget has treats, tricks for employers

01/29/2016

What do the EEOC, DOL and NLRB have in store with the $1.1 trillion budget bill passed just before the end of 2015?

Tie HR to business strategy with the right mission statement

01/29/2016

HR mission statements can inspire the workplace and increase support from senior management and executive leadership.

Use the right words when pointing employees to EAP

01/27/2016

When you mention to employees that the company has an EAP service, do so in a generic and consistent manner.

The painful truth: Prescription drug abuse on the rise at work

01/25/2016

Employee drug abuse continues to be the trend that just won’t go away. And it’s not just illegal drugs causing problems these days.

Where pot is legal, what happens when employees test positive?

01/18/2016

In states where recreational and medical marijuana is legal, 41% of employers have a zero-tolerance policy for anyone who tests positive.

Tweets & Facebook posts: Must your business save them?

01/16/2016

Having archives of social media postings could help avoid legal trouble.

Signs you have a drug problem at work

01/14/2016

When drugs don’t seem to present a problem within a company, it’s easy to develop a cavalier attitude about them. That’s not smart.

What should we do? Employee wants to add written rebuttal to his performance review

01/12/2016

Q. We have a difficult employee who does not like criticism and always takes issue with any sort of coaching. We recently had annual performance reviews, and his manager included some things in the written evaluation that this employee takes issue with. He refused to sign the performance review and is now demanding that we place his written response in his personnel file. Do we have to include this employee’s angry diatribe in his personnel file?

Can we have a policy prohibiting employees from discussing how much they earn?