Prevent Employee Heat Illness and Fatalities
By Don Dressler, Don Dressler Consulting It’s been a warm winter and promises to be a hot summer – are you prepared for preventing heat illness?
Tag: human resources
Cal/OSHA Inspections: How To Effectively Prepare For A Surprise Visit From Cal/OSHA
By Don Dressler, Don Dressler Consulting Are you ready for Cal/OSHA inspectors? Each year Cal/OSHA inspects between 9,000 and 10,000 employers in California, with 240 field personnel devoted to this task. If one of your employees has a serious injury (which must be reported to Cal/OSHA within 8 hours), that will likely trigger an inspection. […]
4 Practical Proactive Defenses to Workplace Harassment Claims
Although Herman Cain will not be the next U.S. president, he has the dubious honor of bringing sexual and workplace harassment back into the national spotlight. He may well have done you a favor.
40 Metrics—And Not a One Interesting to Management
There is no single set of metrics that fits all companies, Greene says. You need to step back and find out what management really needs. You’re looking for a few strategic, relevant metrics, he says. Greene is a member of the Ann Arbor, Michigan, office of the law firm Dykema Gossett, and is director of […]
‘Renewal Rodeo’ Helps Round Up Volunteers for HR Initiative
While donning cowboy hats, boots, and bandanas, and ringing cow bells and playing country music on boom boxes, managers walked through Benefitfocus® offices “rounding up” volunteers to provide support services during an upcoming Open Enrollment period. Business Objectives Met Benefitfocus (www.benefitfocus.com), a Charleston, South Carolina-based company that is the largest healthcare benefits software provider in […]
Are You Mismanaging Your Job Descriptions?
Job descriptions have traditionally suffered a poor reputation among managers and human resources professionals. In fact, job descriptions often end up being ignored – left at the bottom drawer of a file cabinet, neglected and rapidly becoming obsolete.
Employee Performance Evaluation: Holly Flax
Last night, my television was playing a marathon of “Office” repeats, leaving us without new catastrophes to dissect. So in an attempt to find something to share with you folks, I contacted my mole in Sabre’s corporate human resources department to see what’s new down in Tallahassee. As it turns out, I have a special treat for […]
The 5 Dumbest Management Concepts?
Author and blogger Geoffrey James puts a new spin on the old saying about nothing being certain in this world except death and taxes — he’d add “bad management” to the list, too.
Do Aggressive Decisions Save Money?
Many employers are now making the unhappy discovery that their finance and operations people made aggressive exempt-status and other wage and hour-related determinations that are coming back to haunt their organizations in the form of big wage and hour lawsuits and payouts. Attorney Kurt A. Franklin of the San Francisco office of Hanson Bridgett, LLP, […]
The Chronic Complainer: Must You Investigate?
Yesterday we shared a hypothetical posed by Denise Kay, SPHR, Esq. Kay is president of Employment Practices Solutions, Inc., in Lakewood, Colorado. She recently spoke at the Society for Human Resource Management Legal and Legislative Conference in Washington, DC.