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Posted on April 30th, 2012 by admin
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While everyone else’s healthcare costs are rising, Chrysler’s managed to avoid those increases. The best part: You can steal the automaker’s cost control tactics for use in your organization. In 2011, Chrysler avoided healthcare cost increases for the vast majority of its 13,000 salaried workers in the U.S. after its healthcare spending jumped 9% the […]
Posted on April 29th, 2012 by admin
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The EEOC’s recent guidance concerning employers’ use of criminal background checks on job applicants comes down to two words: Individual assessment. The bottom line of the agency’s recently released “enforcement guidance”: Blanket policies that automatically reject job candidates with criminal records are illegal. The rationale: Such policies have been found to have a disparate impact […]
Posted on April 28th, 2012 by admin
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As if healthcare didn’t cost enough already, a new fee is set to kick in shortly for health insurers. And it looks like it could trickle down to employers. The healthcare reform law contains a little-known provision that imposes a fee on insurance issuers and plan sponsors of self-funded health plans to help fund the […]
Posted on April 27th, 2012 by admin
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With smartphones becoming commonplace and new mobile devices such as tablets skyrocketing in popularity, the interest in mobile learning has begun to heat up as well. Many organizations see the promise of mobile learning, but actual implementations are still rare. Is now the time to take the plunge into mobile learning or should you wait […]
Posted on April 26th, 2012 by admin
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What do employees value most today? Recently, 9,218 full-time U.S. employees at nongovernmental organizations were asked to rank 23 job factors by what’s most important to them. Here is their top 10 (by age group). (Note: The following is from the 2011 Towers Watson Retirement Attitudes Survey.) Most important factors that attracted employees younger than […]
Posted on April 25th, 2012 by admin
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How easy is it to spot a company failing to fund workers’ comp benefits? It can’t be too hard if just eight inspectors in Georgia were able to uncover 538 businesses without comp insurance in just three months. What’s changed? Answer: Technology. Computers are making it easier for state inspectors to nab businesses without workers’ […]
Posted on April 24th, 2012 by admin
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The Department of Labor sued a business on Manhattan’s Upper West Side for failing to pay workers overtime. The company fought back, saying its employees were illegal aliens not covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act. Who won the lawsuit? It wasn’t even close. The DOL won big. The company, Cindy’s Total Care, Inc., a […]
Posted on April 23rd, 2012 by admin
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Here’s what it’s come to in employment law today: A federal judge has ruled that an employer has the right to require its employees to show up for work. And no, the case didn’t involve somebody who wanted to telecommute, or make some other reasonable arrangement to fulfill their job requirements. This was about a […]
Posted on April 22nd, 2012 by admin
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With all the talk about how Baby Boomers are putting off retirement, are employers really looking at a critical skills shortage in the coming years? According to a recent study from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and AARP, a lot of people think the answer’s yes — 72% of HR pros polled described […]
Posted on April 21st, 2012 by admin
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