Like it’s not hard enough to control employee behavior in the workplace — now you’re expected to ride herd on how employees treat their co-workers on the Internet. Case in point: A recent federal appeals court ruling in California, which held an employer liable for workers’ after-hours harassment of a disabled co-worker on a blog. […]
Posted on March 31st, 2012 by admin
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Posted on March 30th, 2012 by admin
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First, the feds passed a law that says employers have to provide employees up to 12 weeks of leave to recover from a serious medical condition. And now they’re saying state agencies and stage colleges are exempt – or at least they can’t be sued for ignoring that part of the FMLA. Here’s what happened: […]
Posted on March 29th, 2012 by admin
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It appears benefits are about the only thing keeping employees around these days. MetLife’s 10th annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends has uncovered some disturbing things. Here’s what you need to know now: Employee loyalty isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse. The percentage of employees who feel a very strong sense of loyalty toward their […]
Posted on March 28th, 2012 by admin
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It appears benefits are about the only thing keeping employees around these days. MetLife’s 10th annual Study of Employee Benefits Trends has uncovered some disturbing things. Here’s what you need to know now: Employee loyalty isn’t getting better, it’s getting worse. The percentage of employees who feel a very strong sense of loyalty toward their […]
Posted on March 28th, 2012 by admin
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The Department of Health & Human Services recently released new data showing the impact of yet another portion of the healthcare reform law. The HHS says the law’s ban on lifetime dollar limits on health coverage has eliminated coverage caps for 105 million Americans. Before the law was passed, people with serious illnesses, like cancer, […]
Posted on March 27th, 2012 by admin
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As the Digital Age matures, employers of all sizes continue to wonder: Just how much time are workers wasting wandering on the Web? And what motivates them to do it? Well, now we know. Salary.com recently released the results of a 3,200-person survey that looked into the issue of employees’ non-work Internet usage. Almost two-thirds […]
Posted on March 26th, 2012 by admin
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In June 2009, the Supreme Court issued a ruling making it tougher for employees to win age-bias lawsuits. Now legislation to negate that ruling has been reintroduced in the Senate. The Protecting Older Workers Against Discrimination Act (S.2189) would repudiate the high court’s decision in Gross v. FBL Financial Services, which held that employees claiming […]
Posted on March 25th, 2012 by admin
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Orange you glad you don’t work for this organization? Humblest apologies for the pun — we couldn’t resist after reading of how a Florida law firm fired 14 workers en masse on a recent Friday. Their offense: They’d all worn orange shirts to the office that day, apparently to heighten the team atmosphere at a […]
Posted on March 24th, 2012 by admin
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Good news for those closely following the health reform law’s journey through the legal system: The Supreme Court has agreed to release audio recordings and transcripts of oral arguments from its hearings regarding the challenges to the constitutionality of the healthcare reform law’s individual mandate. The high court said it would release the recordings on […]
Posted on March 23rd, 2012 by admin
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