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The HR Checklist: How would your practices stand up in court?

2/3/2012
If you’re ever hauled into court to testify in an employment lawsuit against your organization, what you say—and how you say it—can sink your defense … or help you win. Prepare yourself for any lawsuit by asking yourself these 10 questions:
Employee Relations

Communicating benefits: 3+3 strategy works best

2/3/2012
Giving em­­ployees at least three weeks to review benefit information and providing that information in at least three different formats is the key to benefits training that sticks, says new research from benefits provider Unum.
Compensation & Benefits

Forget a late or early spring--February is W-2 time

2/2/2012
Darn that groundhog! If it knew what payroll administrators know about looming W-2 deadlines, it would never come out of its den. Paper W-2s are due to the Social Security Administration by the end of the month; e-filed forms are due by April 2.
Employment Law

New FMLA status: pet-abuse protection

2/2/2012
Florida’s version of the FMLA allows workers to take up to three days of leave if the employee or a family member is the victim of domestic violence. Now a state senator, Mike Fasano, has proposed an amendment that would extend that protection to pet abuse.
Terminations

Need to conduct a layoff? Use same criteria you use for hiring

1/25/2012
Sometimes, layoffs are inevitable … and they’re always a legal minefield. Get it wrong and your attorneys’ fees can easily exceed the labor costs you hoped to save. Decide who should go in much the same way you decide who to hire. Look at the jobs that will survive and select the employees who best fit those jobs.
Hiring

Sears aims to hire more military veterans in 2012

1/19/2012
Sears Holdings has publicly vowed to increase its hiring of veterans by 10% over the next year. Sears’ senior VP of human resources is a Navy veteran, who says as more military members return from active duty, U.S. employers have an obligation to support them, especially by offering jobs.
Article Archives

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Remind managers to steer clear of discrimination by association

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Team dysfunction: Why it happens and how to fix it

Staff Twitter accounts: Who 'owns' the followers?

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Flex drives customer satisfaction, record profits

Step by step: Becoming a great manager, the Google way

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It's OK to discipline employees for stonewalling HR investigations