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Eric Swenson's Letter to Leaders
Eric's "Letter to Leaders" covers current leadership and workforce topics.
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Aug 21, 20071 min read
Sexual Harassment Training Does Not Invite Lawsuits
A fear of some business owners is that the teaching of sexual harassment training to employees is an invitation to encourage lawsuits....
Aug 15, 20072 min read
The "No-Match" Letter
From our friends at Allen Matkins… Significant Changes Announced To Employer’s Obligations Upon Receipt of No-Match Letter The Department...
Aug 3, 20071 min read
AB 1825 Regulations Now In Force
The Office of Administrative Law has adopted the Fair Employment and Housing Commissions regulations for AB 1825 Sexual Harassment...
Jul 27, 20071 min read
Don’t Get Scammed – Get your labor poster for free!
Today’s Modesto Bee illustrates a popular scam, one we see every year. You should place the updated poster in your workplace, but don’t...
Jul 18, 20072 min read
The Biggest Hiring Mistakes
From our friends at Gevity: 1. Offering candidates uncompetitive compensation. Offering prospective hires a competitive compensation...
Jul 13, 20071 min read
Re-Hiring Of Employees
Should you re-hire a former employee? Theories vary. Lew Wasserman re-hired just one employee in his 60 years at Universal (Frank...
May 14, 20071 min read
Recommended Reading
The Tallahasee Democrat poses a question – why is sexual harrasment is prevelent? (Answer is – because there’s still ignorant people out...
May 2, 20071 min read
The Risks of E-mails
E-mail is a positive and negative. What’s surprising is how many businesses have not taken steps to adopt a policy regarding e-mails. ...
Apr 26, 20071 min read
"Love Contracts" are a bad idea
Despite the growing popularity of so-called ‘love contracts’, they’re a really bad practice. While any manager would strongly prefer to...
Apr 12, 20071 min read
Policies on Blogging
In the never-ending world of revising your Employee Handbook, here’s the latest need for an additional policy – blogging at work. Don’t...
Apr 11, 20071 min read
What Are You Doing To Retain Your Employees?
Wow. 75% of all employees are looking to change jobs before the end of the year. The cost to interview, train, and manage an new...
Apr 5, 20071 min read
The Pitfalls of Layoffs
If you need to layoff employees, make sure the criteria you use is both consistent and business-related. There is a huge potential for...
Mar 23, 20071 min read
E-Mail Etiquette in the Workplace
There’s way too much overuse of e-mail in the workplace. And many managers are using e-mail for the ultimate no-no: reprimanding...
Mar 13, 20071 min read
Harassment – Same Sex
The EEOC reports that there’s a sharp increase in men filing sexual harassment charges. Harassment of the same sex is prohibited; make...
Mar 9, 20071 min read
Stupid Managers – Part 85
The tragedy of this story is that it’s likely the business owner – the one who had to write a check for $85,000 (plus attorney’s fees)...
Mar 1, 20071 min read
HR Checklist
This is by no means a comprehensive audit checklist, but it’s well written and focuses on the major issues California businesses needs to...
Feb 26, 20071 min read
Grievance Procedures
Every Employee Handbook should include a defined grievance procedure, which outlines the steps an employee must take when he/she has a...
Feb 22, 20071 min read
Employee E-Mail Policy
The number of harassment cases involving the e-mails of employees is on the rise. Make sure you have an air-tight, written policy...
Feb 9, 20071 min read
Document!
Any competent HR professional or consultant will tell management the first rule of good human resources practices is to document,...
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