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Follow the Law When Hiring Teens during the Summer

You may be considering taking on some extra workers for the summer months, and often many employers will gravitate towards hiring teenagers looking for temporary work. If you are planning on hiring any workers under the age of 18, you should familiarize yourself with federal and any state laws on child labor restrictions. The Fair

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Dear David: Employee Discord Is Impacting Performance

Question: We have two employees who don’t seem to like each other, which is starting to affect their work. How do we help employees who don’t get along to work well together?   Answer: Getting employees who don’t like each other to work well together can be challenging, but here are several steps you can take to improve

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Training Your Staff to Respond to Medical Emergencies

If one of your employees had a serious medical emergency while at work, would your staff know how to respond? Unfortunately, most U.S. employees are not prepared to handle cardiac emergencies in the workplace because they lack training in CPR and first aid, according to the American Heart Association. The AHA found that most workers do

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California bereavement laws

New Bereavement Leave Law Explained

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) recently released a detailed set of frequently asked questions about a new bereavement law that requires employers in the state with five or more workers to provide leave for up to five days to a worker who loses an immediate family member. The law, which took effect Jan. 1,

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Rating Agency Recommends Tiny Workers’ Comp Rate Increase

In a sign of the long-lasting effects of reforms enacted a decade ago, California’s workers’ compensation rate-making agency will recommend that average benchmark rates increase a mere 0.3%. The recommendation by the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau is based on claims costs and frequency remaining low and slower cost inflation and would apply to policies

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Making More Money

Would you like to make more money? If your answer is yes, your path may well be a differential pricing policy matching your price to the customer with their relationship with you. Do they see you as their valued resource or the low bidder? Clearly, all customers are not the same, and you should take

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Dear David: How to Make Flex Schedules Work

Question: We want to offer more flexibility but have a hard time staffing our shifts as it is. Any suggestions?  Answer: Answered by the HR Experts  It’s great that you are considering offering more flexibility to your employees. This is one way to increase retention and give your employees some control over their time at work. There

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Check out VMA’s New Website

With lots of forethought, creativity, and dedication, we are excited to share that we just launched a new 80-page website! We also updated our URL. Check it out at visualmediaalliance.org.   Our objectives in the redesign included creating a site with stronger SEO and UX. As well as to speak to our audience and prospects, be

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