Human Resources Tag

The following statistics reveal the need for employee wellness programs: Overweight employees cost employers $73.1 billion a year. Further, obese employees file twice as many workers' compensation claims and take more sick days a year than do non-obese workers (Northeast Business Group on Health). One...

14 June, 2019

It's an unsettling and emotional time when an employee unexpectedly passes away. From a personal standpoint, co-workers may be stunned and grief-stricken over the loss of a colleague. On the employer side, the business may have to quickly hire a replacement and train him or...

12 June, 2019

When is providing an education fringe benefit advantageous to the employer? I know other employers who give their employees financial help to attend college or higher education courses. Also I think some of my employees would like to take some courses at the community college....

05 June, 2019

If you want to get a snapshot of your organization’s efficiency and the health of its culture, look at your meetings. Are they efficient and productive? Do their results justify the time and expense? Are meetings an occasion for collaboration, knowledge-sharing, and team-building? Or are...

27 May, 2019

Terminations based on employees' Facebook posts (or posts on other social media sites) are nothing new. The pace of such firings reached such a crescendo three years ago that the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a legal memorandum summarizing how it had ruled in a variety of...

22 May, 2019

Employee self-service is a web-based tool that allows employees to retrieve information and perform specific transactions from a central portal. In many organizations, this portal is used to deliver HR, payroll and timekeeping information. Over the years, ESS has blossomed into a global phenomenon, and is...

15 May, 2019