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The Top 10 Steps for Making Compliant Job Descriptions
When was the last time your small business audited your job descriptions for legal compliance? As a part of your standard HR practices, you should regularly update your job descriptions. Each job should have its own job description. These descriptions are the...
The Top 10 Steps for Making Compliant Job Descriptions
When was the last time your small business audited your job descriptions for legal compliance? As a part of your standard HR practices, you should regularly update your job descriptions. Each job should have its own job description. These descriptions are the...
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What Does It Take to Make Your Job Postings Legally Compliant?
Are you confident your company’s job postings are legally compliant? As a small business, the right HR practices can make or break your company. Beyond ensuring legal compliance, your HR team helps you find highly qualified, productive workers. Your job postings...
How to Build Your HR Budget for 2019
Can you demonstrate a return on HR programs? It’s the last quarter of the calendar year—a busy time for most HR departments. The odds are good that you are in the middle of open enrollment and trying to complete an HR departmental budget for 2019.In this digital age,...
Pros and Cons of a Pet-Friendly Workspace
In today’s competitive labor market, employers are definitely looking for perks, especially inexpensive ones, that will appeal to younger generations of workers. In the US and Canada, pet ownership has been on the rise over the past decade. Nearly 75% of Millennials...
How the Mid-Term Elections Will Impact Employers
This week in the US, it’s pretty much impossible to escape the pending mid-term elections, in which 435 seats in the House of Representatives, 35 seats in the Senate and 39 state or territorial governorships are to be contested, in addition to other state and local...
The Form I-9: From Immigration Document to Critical Employment Form
Any business owner knows the importance of paying attention to detail in order to thrive. At Payroll Specialties Northwest, we realize how crucial it is for businesses to spend more time growing than worrying about complex details. Our country is built largely on...
Taking the Pulse of Talent a Decade After the Great Recession
The fourth business quarter of 2018 marks the ten-year anniversary of some of the more notable events of the Great Recession, including record drops in the stock market, the enactment of TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), and the federal bailouts of AIG, Chrysler,...
Austin Job Growth is Up and Unemployment is Low. Finding and Retaining Talent is Harder than Ever
According to Austin's Chamber of Commerce, Austin added 30,000 net new jobs over the last year and, Austin's unemployment is hovering around 2.8%. This means that top talent is working and most likely not looking for a job. More and more companies that we talk to...
New York Paid Family Leave Update for 2019
Effective January 1, 2019, the number of weeks that eligible employees can take to bond with a new child, care for a sick family member, or assist loved ones when a family member is deployed abroad on active military service increases to 10 weeks. The number of weeks...
New Sexual Harassment Prevention Law Applies to ALL New York State Employers
New York State Sexual Harassment Prevention Requirements Finalized The New York State Department of Labor (NYDOL) has released a finalized sexual harassment prevention policy, poster, complaint form, training materials, and minimum training standards. As anticipated,...
How Lighting Design Ignites Performance
Today, office design trends are increasingly focused on the health and well-being of workers. Standing desks and adjustable workstations have become very popular as healthier workplace amenities that appeal to many employees, millennials in particular. These options...
New Ways to Approach Paid Leave for Employees
Paid leave is unquestionably one of the most highly-valued employee benefits. In fact, 43% of employees survey stated that paid leave was the single benefit that made them feel most loved by their employer. In the past few decades employee leave programs have shifted...
The Three Biggest Barriers to Top Performance
There can be many reasons for mediocre performance in the workplace.Some unfortunately is due to a lack of desire to perform at a top level, butmore often there can be other obstacles or challenges preventing anemployee from performing successfully. The cost of a...
Austin HR Gives Back — Announcing Summer/Fall Session of Career Transitions
Austin HR's Cofounder, David Hughen, is hosting the 9th year of Career Transitions - a free to the public five week session, designed to help Austin area professionals who are considering their 'next'. This program is made available as a gift to the community. Anyone...
Do employees feel their work experiences are better if their managers take a personal interest in them?
Personalizing the employee experience makes sense, whether it's during an on-boarding process or even an interview but, the day-to-day interactions between managers and employees are crucial in this realm. If a manager can personalize their communications so that...
How long should we keep employee timecards?
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, you are required to keep such records for at least three years from time of creation. However, we recommend that personnel records, including payroll records and timecards, be kept for seven years from the date the record is made or...
The Consumerization of HR and the Employee Experience
As individuals, employees are increasingly accustomed to personalized experiences in their daily life, from the recommendations offered up by Amazon and Netflix, to the instant gratification of services such as UberEats and the ease of working around traffic delays...
Making Molehills Out of Mountains: A Climber Turned Payroll Provider Discovers the Joy of Outsourcing Payroll Taxes
As a guy who has scaled mountains as a rescue climber, you wouldn’t think there would be much that could keep Malcolm Frost up at night.But for a long time, it was this: Handling payroll tax compliance for hundreds of his payroll, human resources and benefits...
Should you offer cyber security and identity theft management as an employee benefit?
Cyber security and identity theft management are increasingly becoming part of employee benefit plans. Employers who consider adding these benefits are smart to doso for several reasons. First, employees are understandably concerned about identity theft, which reached...
Why Meetings Can Be Detrimental to Creatives
Three ways to improve the scheduling and quality of your meeting time Business meetings have a way of creeping into the daily schedule of managers and employees alike. There are 25 million meetings per day in the U.S. alone which ties up 15% of your organization’s...
Adapt Your Performance Reviews to Better Manage Millennials
Four ways to improve your process for younger workers Millennials aren’t afraid of criticism. In fact, they welcome feedback in the workplace—and lots of it. Studies show that despite being well-educated and confident, Millennials crave transparency and frequent,...
Watch Out for Deadlines and Document Traps in Benefits Enrollment and Administration
Employers face all kinds of timelines and deadlines when employees are hired or terminate. Benefits administration adds another set of complications. Wanda Bishop All benefit plans – health, dental, vision, life, disability – specify a waiting period for eligibility....
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