Whether your employee handbook is homegrown or crafted by experts, it’s critical you update it on a regular basis. Especially now, as business policies have to rapidly...
Whether you’re in a large corporation, small business, or somewhere in between - performance reviews are a vital part of managing employees. In fact, successful...
In this slumping economy, you need to work even harder in interviews to sort the wheat from the vast amount of candidate chaff. So how can you cut through all those...
The W-4 form used to be a simple half-page. Now it looks like a tax return … and employees have to do math! Even after a year with this format, the new withholding...
Is it legal to fire employees for posting inflammatory comments on Facebook? Can workers claim “free speech”? And when are their words or actions considered...
The distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine has made many Americans see the long-awaited light at the end of the tunnel. But the journey is far from over, especially for...
The world of work is forever changed and new employment law regulations are in the pipeline. Do the people managers at your company have the legal training they need...
Elections, as they say, have consequences. As the country prepares for the transition of a new president to take office, employers must get ready for swift and on-going...
While you can’t prevent unplanned business disruptions, you can be prepared for them. A standard operating procedure is essential to helping maintain everything from...
Maintaining personnel records used to be a whole lot simpler. Any HR department that wanted to be safe simply used a "keep everything" policy. These days, however, that...
This time of year, payroll departments get hit with the double whammy of preparing W-2s for employees and 1099 forms for their independent contractors. The bad news: The...
Winter is crunch time for complying with your Affordable Care Act mandate to provide health care information reporting to employees. And while the pandemic means...
Employee classification has always been tricky, but when the pandemic sent workers home and employers reduced hours and restructured job descriptions … overtime lines...
Employee leave has seen a swift and complicated change this year in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The FFCRA - the first-ever nationwide federal paid leave law -...
Millions of Americans have tested positive for the coronavirus, so it's likely some of your employees will become infected in the coming months. One wrong move could...
In every management job, coaching challenges arise. But these irregular times are creating a bigger need for supervisors to provide guidance or correction on a more...
How do you handle employees' first few hours … first few days … and first few weeks on the job? Do you simply throw new hires to the wolves with a "sink or swim"...
Winter is crunch time for complying with your Affordable Care Act mandate to provide health care information reporting to employees. And while the pandemic means...
The coronavirus crisis doesn’t give you a free pass to avoid the responsibility of handling workplace misconduct … in fact, your HR investigations are more important...
More than 75% of your company’s records are created and stored electronically—everything from emails to Slack messages to social media. Are you 100% confident that...
