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One way to risk an employee lawsuit is to not nipping in the bud workplace bullying when you learn about it. Old school cajoling and demeaning employees can days land a company in hot water and at the receiving end of a costly lawsuit. If you learn about bullying and it’s to the point that
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
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,
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
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
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
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
I recently got an “IMPORTANT TAX RETURN DOCUMENT” in the mail from Fidelity Brokerage Services, LLC. On the back of the envelope, I found an eco-looking tree logo with the message, “Choose eDelivery: Save trees. Save time.” I personally find messages like this annoying because they are self-serving and deceiving, and they intentionally badmouth print.
Cal/OSHA has proposed its long-awaited indoor heat illness prevention standard as increasingly hot summers are affecting workers in indoor spaces like warehouses, production operations, print shops and more. The proposed standard, largely based on the state agency’s outdoor regulations, will require employers whose workplaces at times are at least 82 degrees to have a written
Every year, hundreds of workers in the United States die because they don’t follow lockout/tagout procedures or their employers did not have them in place – or, if they did, failed to enforce their rules. A lockout tagout is a protection system against unintentional exposure to hazardous energy from equipment and machinery. You want a program
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