Learn everything you need to know as a human resource manager on labor law, including handling harassment cases, discrimination charges, unemployment benefits, compensation claims and more. Understand your rights as a business and the proper way to go about disciplining or firing employees.
Offering a seasonal internship is appealing to many companies. It’s a great way to gain new insight into your business, as well as get low-cost or even free work. But there is much more to an internship than free labor, and treating your interns that way could have some serious legal ramifications.
When hearing about gender discrimination, most people think about females, but it can happen to either sex. While women seem to get more press (think Wal-Mart), are there really some men out there fighting to keep their jobs despite their gender?
I’ll sue you for denying me a job because I’m a woman! I’ll sue you because you fired me because I’m over 40 years of age! These statements are so true today and employers and HR departments must be aware of workplace discrimination laws. How well do you know the laws? Test yourself here!
Are you up to date on your understanding of the provisions associated with FMLA? Regulations carefully outline acceptable and unacceptable business practices. Even so, there is ample room for misinterpretation. Take the quiz and fill knowledge gaps quickly.
Companies and employers who fail to keep the workplace safe can and will find themselves swimming in fines from OSHA or other federal or state agencies. How well do you understand workplace safety? Take our quiz and find out!
The Fair Labor Standards Act, also known as the Wages and Hours Bill is a Federal law that establishes minimum requirements for hours worked by employees, wages, premium overtime and payroll records. What the FLSA says about compensatory time has serious implications for businesses.
The Family and Medical Leave Act is a crucial bit of legislation that spells out employee rights and employer obligations. At the same time, it regulates the situations in which an employer may be exempt from compliance. Do you know the ins and outs of FMLA?
So your employee has been called to jury duty. Or, he or she wants to cause an upheaval in the political infrastructure by voting. Understanding your employee’s rights and responsibilities related to these civic duties, as well as your obligations and rights related to these processes, is vital.
Do you think you can recognize just about any instance of sexual harassment that walks down the corridor outside your office? Take this quiz and find out how many of the scenarios described constitute genuinely actionable incidents.
Depending on the circumstances of termination, some employees are eligible for unemployment insurance. If you’re an employer or HR professional you need to be well versed in all the ins and outs of unemployment insurance including how to fight unemployment appeals.
Learn more about how to compensate your employees to increase retention and job satisfaction. Discover how to write superior compensation plans and avoid compliance problems. Take the mystery out of employee benefits and compensation plans with this in-depth guide.
You don’t have to be an expert at creating your own tools to excel in human resources management. In this article you’ll find solid advice and examples as well as links to a dozen free templates you can use for evaluating and managing employee performance.
Afraid of employee lawsuits or fear an employee may get the upper hand by claiming you, as the employer, aren’t following employee labor laws? These situations happen all the time so fear no more and take our short quiz to test how well you understand these regulations.
All employers will at one time or another need to either layoff or terminate some employees. If you’re lost on how to go through this process with ease, this one-stop guide to both will assist you in decision-making. We invite you to bookmark this web page so you can visit it often for assistance.
The United States Labor and Employment laws are complicated and cover several areas, including the Family and Medical Leave Act and whistleblower cases.
Attention business owners and HR managers! Never again spend time seeking the right way to discipline employees, because here Bright Hub not only offers a one-stop guide on how to discipline but also provides 100 percent free forms you can download.
No one likes to think about workplace accidents, but they do happen. Making sure that you have a solid plan for both preventing and dealing with potential accidents on the job isn’t only smart, but it is both federal and state law. Check out these helpful tips to help with workplace safety.
COBRA allows employees and their dependents to avail continued coverage of health insurance for a limited period when they become ineligible for such benefits owing to loss of job or some other conditions. COBRA insurance for small business places some responsibilities on the employer.
COBRA allow employees and their dependents covered under the employer’s group health plan the option to continue subscribing to the plan for a limited period of time, when they go outside the coverage of such schemes. An employees COBRA eligibility, however, depends on many conditions.
In tough economic times employers try to cut wage costs, a significant expense. Some employers looking at alternative to layoffs opt for furloughs, or subjecting employees to temporary leave of absence. The challenge when adopting such measures is remaining on the right side of the law