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Timekeeping and Payroll Best Practices McCutchen suggests HR managers pay attention to the following issues:
McDonald’s parent company would be liable as a joint employer in any proceedings by the National Labor Relations Board on labor and wage violations at McDonald’s franchises, the NLRB’s general counsel said in a July 29 determination. The franchisees’ alleged violations of the National Labor Relations Act relate specifically to a spate of lawsuits filed […]
Compliance ROI—The Cost of Noncompliance Last year was a record year for federal court lawsuits, says McCutchen. We broke the 8,000 mark. Some notable suits you can use as ammo for convincing bosses to take action about wage/hour violations: Novartis, $99 Walmart, $85 million Staples, $80 million Wachovia, $50 million Merrill Lynch, $44 million JPMorgan, […]
Fernández-Aráoz says that potential is the fourth era of talent spotting. Here are the previous three: Physical attributes. For thousands of years, people looked for the biggest, strongest, and healthiest people who could handle the physical aspects that most jobs required. Intelligence, experience, and past performance. For much of the 20th century, education and experience […]
How is HR a terrorist? HR tends to use the law as a hammer, Sackett says. “No, you can’t do it; it’s against the law.” A better approach is, “Yes, you can do it, but we put ourselves at risk for an expensive and prolonged lawsuit.” You be the CEO’s risk advisor; he or she […]
How did we get to this point? Sackett (www.timsackett.com) asks. He says, “Check out the graphics below. Don’t try to read them, just glance and ask whether your CEO wants to look at them.” (Sackett offered his tips during the recent SHRM annual Conference and Expo in Orlando.) Really pretty charts… are we adding […]
By Susan Prince, JD, Legal Editor HR.BLR.com Employers get ready! Minimum wage increases will affect numerous states across the country during the remainder of 2014 and into 2015.
Boss: Documentation, schmockumentation; this guy’s a poor performer and I want him gone today. The trouble with this scenario—terminating with no backup evidence of poor performance—is that there is usually documentation that shows good performance. Typically, since the person hasn’t been terminated before, his or her performance reviews read “good” or “satisfactory.” Now, this is […]
New supervisors and managers try to do the best job they can, but their good intentions often backfire. Instead, they lay the groundwork for expensive lawsuits. The solution is training, training, and more training, but where do you start? New supervisors are overwhelmed by their new responsibilities. They have to forge new relationships with people […]