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Quake Preparedness: Avoiding Injuries from Falling Items, Debris

While earthquake safety training should be a part of any California employer’s safety program, it’s important from a workplace safety perspective to understand how your employees could be injured during a temblor. While ducking and taking cover are good skills for your employees to reduce the likelihood of injury, one area that many employers overlook

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Quake Preparedness: Avoiding Injuries from Falling Items, Debris

While earthquake safety training should be a part of any California employer’s safety program, it’s important from a workplace safety perspective to understand how your employees could be injured during a temblor. While ducking and taking cover are good skills for your employees to reduce the likelihood of injury, one area that many employers overlook

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Business Lessons from the Sony Pictures Attack

ON THE hacking scale, the attack on Sony Pictures’ computer systems is pretty much the worst-case scenario for any business. The amount of data breached is shocking: scripts were leaked and as-yet unreleased movies were also stolen and loaded up to pirate movie download sites. Social Security numbers and details for a trove of big

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Get Creative: 10 Ways to Think Outside the Box

Vivian Wagner Owner, V Creative Enterprises, LLC Looking for ways to inspire your staff and boost your business? Try these 10 tips for getting your employees to think more creatively. Smart business owners encourage their employees to be creative. After all, employees are on the front lines and often know better than anyone how to

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Top 10 Questions Employees Have about the ACA

As the Affordable Care Act hits high gear and the individual mandate has been in effect for nearly one year, employees in most organizations have a heightened awareness of the new law. But just because they are more aware of it, doesn’t mean they understand it, particularly considering the immense amount of misinformation that’s circulating

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Top 10 Questions Employees Have about the ACA

As the Affordable Care Act hits high gear and the individual mandate has been in effect for nearly one year, employees in most organizations have a heightened awareness of the new law. But just because they are more aware of it, doesn’t mean they understand it, particularly considering the immense amount of misinformation that’s circulating

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Safety Tips That You May Not Have Considered

As the New Year gets underway, now would be a good time to double down on your workplace safety efforts to see if there are any areas that you may be overlooking. While your safety regimen may be top notch, there is always room for improvement and you can consider these options as covered by

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Safety Tips That You May Not Have Considered

As the New Year gets underway, now would be a good time to double down on your workplace safety efforts to see if there are any areas that you may be overlooking. While your safety regimen may be top notch, there is always room for improvement and you can consider these options as covered by

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More Lawsuits Want Pay for Work Done before, after Clocking in

For years there’s been a debate in the manufacturing, farming, mining and like industries about the merits of paying employees for the time they spend putting on and removing work clothes and protective gear before and after their shifts. Individual and class-action lawsuits have been filed by employees seeking pay for the time they spend

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State Compensation Insurance Fund to Drop Its Group Programs

State Compensation Insurance Fund of California (State Fund) will discontinue all of its group insurance programs. The state’s largest insurer will start phasing out the programs and stop renewing group agreements in April 2015. At the same time, the applicable group discounts will be eliminated for all policies April 1, 2015. Groups have allowed like

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