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About one in four American adults suffer from a diagnosable mental disorder in any given year. Employers need to be aware of their obligations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and comparable state laws regarding their employees’ mental health.
In yesterday’s Advisor, we pondered the pitfalls of outsourcing; today, what you can do to avoid them.
From payroll to benefits, employers face complex compliance and management challenges. Is outsourcing a best-practice solution?
The survey, sent to a random sample of SHRM members, had 510 respondents, which was a 13% response rate. SHRM released the survey at its Annual Conference and Exposition, held recently in Orlando.
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released its 2014 Employee Benefits Survey at its recent Annual Conference and Exposition in Orlando. The findings are helpful for determining what benefits are commonly offered and which ones you might want to consider.
“There’s a lot of onboarding going on and not so much extensive assimilation coaching,” says Diane Egbers, president of Leadership Excelleration, Inc., (LEI Consulting) (www.leadershipexcelleration.com). She is also a coauthor of The Ascending Leader: Conquer the Seven Enemies of Success—A Strategic Guide for the Newly Promoted (Smart Business Network, 2013). Onboarding and orientation address the […]
According to Matt Tenney, author of Serve to Be Great: Leadership Lessons from a Prison, a Monastery, and a Boardroom (Wiley, May 2014), when managers develop both the aspiration and the ability to more effectively serve and care for the people on their teams, these managers can become leaders people actually want to follow. Let’s […]
Employee wellness plans have been gaining popularity in recent years, and with good reason: they can benefit both employees and employers. An employee wellness program is simply a program that intends to promote the health and well-being of employees. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, but the key is that the program […]
The topic of e-cigarettes is smoking in the media—with controversy. The Food and Drug Administration is looking at regulations, and states and municipalities are either banning the use of the electronic smoking devices where regular cigarettes are prohibited or exempting the products from tobacco-use laws.
There is a problem twice a year that could be worse for your employees than their 6-month performance reviews—and has them in physical danger! With workstations in cube farms often out of view of an outside window, you know that proper lighting is essential to productivity and wellness. However, what your employees go through when […]