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A recent settlement agreement between an employer and the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) serves as a reminder that employers must consider all of an employee’s hours—regardless of where the work was performed—for overtime purposes.
The U.S. hiring outlook for the next 5 months is expected to mirror the same period in 2015—but paychecks will likely become a little bigger—according to CareerBuilder’s Midyear Job Forecast. More than half of employers will raise wages for current employees while two in five will offer higher starting salaries on job offers in the […]
Conducted in May, BLR’s 2016-2017 Pay Budget Survey provides data from 555 participants on 2016 increase amounts for senior management, management, exempt non-management, hourly office, and hourly non-office employees, as well as the increase amounts being budgeted for next year and the most common increase amount by performance level.
Yesterday we looked at a CareerBuilder® report concerning the most critical jobs in America. Today we’ll look at the rest of the list.
In yesterday’s Advisor, we heard from senior legal editor at BLR®, Jennifer Carsen, JD, concerning how to handle tricky Affordable Care Act (ACA) situations. Today we present more on that topic.
By Denise Blasevick In yesterday’s Advisor, guest columnist Denise Blasevick discussed fostering a culture of open communication among employees and presented the first two of her five tips for doing so. Today Blasevick presents the rest of her tips.
By Jeffrey Phillips and Alex Verjovsky You’ve heard the saying “fighting the last war”. It refers to preparing to compete using familiar techniques, against competitors you’ve faced before, in the same markets or industries, only to discover that the rules have changed. Modern business competition is changing rapidly, and to compete effectively, you need to […]
Do you reach out to job applicants to gauge their candidate experience after an interview? If you don’t, you might want to start making that a habit! A new survey released by Future Workplace, in conjunction with CareerArc—a global HR technology provider— revealed that nearly 60% of job seekers have had a poor candidate experience.
While global leaders and companies understand in theory the importance of employee engagement, the percentage of engaged employees has barely budged since the beginning of the 2000s. And in the U.S., 70% of employees are not engaged in their jobs. With Millennials now comprising the largest proportion of the workforce—a generation for whom engagement in […]
By Doug Upchurch, learning innovation strategist, Insights Learning and Development Of the many ways leaders get results, coaching their employees can often be overlooked as the most efficient way to get from point A to point B.