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In yesterday’s Advisor, BLR Senior Legal Editor Susan Schoenfeld shared an expert’s advice regarding the new proposed overtime rule from the Department of Labor (DOL). Today, more from Schoenfeld on the legal capacity for DOL to make certain changes as well as what changes might surface in the final version of the law.
In yesterday’s Advisor, we shared some results of our Employment Branding Survey; today, we present more results from the study, including how they choose to control what’s being said about their company and what their most successful branding actions have been.
When it comes to an organization’s brand, Amazon.com® Founder and CEO Jeff Bezos put it best: “Your brand is what people say about you when you’re not in the room.” Our Employment Branding Survey, conducted in June 2015, posed the question: What are real-world organizations doing with branding, both internally and externally?
Yesterday’s Advisor covered how to prepare yourself for the first call to a potential candidate. Today, you’ll learn some tips and tricks on actually pulling the call off!
Is your HR team currently spending way too much time managing documents? Are you struggling to comply with changing laws? What’s happening with document management in the real world? What are your competitors up to? Help us find out!
Unfortunately, employee mistakes in the medical field are par for the course. Indeed, there are companies that specifically work with hospitals and medical institutions in an attempt to decrease error and increase quality healthcare.
Yesterday, we got some insights on the importance of a well-structured approach to compensation at your organization, courtesy of J. Timothy O’Rourke. Today, we look at his take on whether building an effective salary structure is more of an art or a science.
by Dan Oswald Have you ever seen a sign that says something like “lack of planning on your part doesn’t constitute an emergency on mine” hanging in someone’s office or retail establishment? If you think about it for a minute, it’s surprising how often an unplanned or unanticipated event for one person turns into an […]
Do the new proposed overtime regulations submitted in July have your HR department aflutter? BLR’s Senior Legal Editor, Susan Schoenfeld, got the scoop at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) conference from an expert speaker and helps to calm HR’s nerves with some solid insight.
Whether you want to reward performance, time, knowledge, skills, or competencies, determining pay grades is the first step to creating an equitable, competitive compensation system. Without accurate pay grade determination, it won’t matter how valid the pay survey data you acquire are—your internal compensation will likely be too high or too low.