‘Tis the season for those pesky out-of-office automatic email replies. Here’s a selection of some of the best we’ve come across. A hit tip to both Corey Eridon, writing on HubSpot, and Nick Lindauer, writing on the Forthea website. They each compiled a list of auto-responses that range from the clever to the downright frightening. […]
Posted on July 11th, 2014 by admin
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A former employee’s Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) lawsuit against a residential nursing care facility provides a couple of important lessons for all employers. They are: Failing to provide a return-to-work date does not automatically result in an employee’s forfeiture of his or her rights and job protections under the FMLA, and In certain circumstances an […]
Posted on July 10th, 2014 by admin
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Sign of the times: A New Jersey woman has sued her employer because it wouldn’t accommodate her disability by changing her schedule so she wouldn’t have to deal with rush hour traffic. Here’s the scoop, from a story in the Cherry Hill, NJ Courier-Post: Andrea DeGerolamo worked as a marketing consultant for Fulton Financial […]
Posted on July 9th, 2014 by admin
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Employers can use this clear and concise guide to understand what action steps they need to take (and when) in order to comply with the various requirements of the Affordable Care Act. This includes Plan Design Requirements for both grandfathered and non-grandfathered plans; Notice Requirements; and Reporting Requirements for plan sponsors and employers. Click here […]
Posted on July 8th, 2014 by admin
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When you suspect employees may run to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), you don’t want to take a page out of this company’s playbook. When three former employees of Corinthian Colleges went to the EEOC with complaints that Corinthian had discriminated against them on the basis or their race, it wasn’t what Corinthian did that […]
Posted on July 7th, 2014 by admin
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A $1.39 bag of chips has cost pharmacy giant Walgreen Company $180,000 — in the form of a settlement with a diabetic employee who was fired for taking the chips without permission to stave off an episode of low blood sugar. Here’s how the case unfolded, as outlined in an earlier post: Josefina Hernandez worked as […]
Posted on July 6th, 2014 by admin
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It would be hard to NOT bring this guy in for at least an interview, right? Introducing Brennan Gleason, a Web and graphic designer. He is also a smart man — and a beer lover. Just before graduating from the University of the Fraser Valley, the school threw down a challenge to some of its students: […]
Posted on July 5th, 2014 by admin
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The Obama administration is dead set on increasing overtime availability for workers. In fact, when President Obama announced his intention to amend the current FLSA overtime regs, even the DOL was surprised by the move. Now employers are wondering exactly when those changes will take place and what the impact will be. An expert’s […]
Posted on July 4th, 2014 by admin
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At this point, even the HR pros enjoying their summer vacations have heard about the Supreme Court ruling on the Affordable Care Act’s contraceptive coverage mandate. But just what does this ruling mean for employers? Here’s some background on how this Obamacare-related case wound up in front of the High Court in the first place: The […]
Posted on July 3rd, 2014 by admin
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How important is effective benefits communication? So important that it could be the difference between retaining top talent or sending them searching for greener pastures. That’s what MetLife’s 12th Annual U.S. Employee Benefit Trends Study (PDF) recently uncovered. According to the report, when workers think their employer does a good job with benefits communication they’re more than twice […]
Posted on July 1st, 2014 by admin
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