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HR Compliance: Not Life or Death, Until It Is …
How I was affected by the events of 9-11 is the reason that I am an HR Compliance evangelist. In 2001, I was the nothing-special HR Manager at a nothing-special company that provided airport auxiliary staff to airlines at Boston Logan Airport. Our employees were the...
The Top 4 Reasons to Update Your Employee Handbook Right Now
When I was newly hired as a Human Resources Director, I spent my first day reviewing the company’s policies, new hire paperwork, and performance management documents. Their Employee Handbook was a mess. I started a To-Do list, and wrote “Update Employee Handbook” at...
Five Tips to Conduct Interviews with Substance
Do you remember your first job interview? Not the one where you were the one being interviewed – the interview that you did when you were hiring someone else. Even if you’re not in human resources, a small business owner, or an official Hiring Manager, you’ve...
Firing is Easy; Layoffs are Hard
Without diminishing the miserable effects for victims of mass layoffs, I’d like to give a shout out of support to all the #hrprofessionals who’ve had to engineer those layoffs. Firing employees is easy. Laying off employees is one of the most difficult things an HR...
Should Very Small Businesses Have an Employee Handbook?
Should Very Small Businesses Have an Employee Handbook? As a human resources consultant for small businesses I get asked a lot about employee handbooks. Actually, I get told a lot about employee handbooks. Small business owners tell me that they think handbooks are...
Top 3 Human Resources Functions You Can’t Afford to Neglect
How many times has your Human Resources department been understaffed? How about when your HR department is fully staffed but there’s still not enough time to handle all the issues that come your way every day? The non-stop issues that come across your desk often need...