Strategic Planning

Crime coverage may pay for itself

11/01/2000

Business consultants are increasingly advising clients to buy crime insurance. Employees are more likely to rip you off, and technology is …

Check arbitration pacts against these standards

10/01/2000

Q. To hold down litigation costs and resolve disputes faster, we’re thinking about requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements that would make them arbitrate employment disputes instead of going to court. Are these agreements legal? —C.R., California

Slash costs of in-house fraud

09/01/2000

The average U.S. company loses more than $9 a day per employee to fraud and abuse, according to the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE). A new ACFE report …

Consider alternatives to cash severance

05/01/2000

If you offer severance packages, don’t assume workers want only money. With rising health care costs, they are choosing less severance pay and more outplacement benefits, such as continued health coverage. …

Expanding? Review proposed changes to disability access rule

02/01/2000

Don’t draw up major remodeling or expansion plans until you’ve read through the government’s new proposal to overhaul the access rules under …

Judge how much of a pain ergonomics rules may be

01/01/2000

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is still accepting comments on its proposed ergonomics regulations until Feb. 1, but it wants to have the sweeping program in place by the …