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Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?
11/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: Do Employers “Like” Social Media?
Social media has gone to work to stay and many companies are still trying to figure out what to do about it. Some forward-looking industries are embracing social media. Others are at least starting to put policies in place to make sure the use of social media by employees remains appropriate. A smaller group hopes […]
Continue reading …Two Reports Show Influence Of Social Media & The Internet On The Workplace
11/10/2012 Comments Off on Two Reports Show Influence Of Social Media & The Internet On The Workplace
Two new reports show the growing influence of social media and the Internet on the workplace. In the U.S., 75% of employees access social media at least once a day from their personal mobile devices while at work. More than half of U.S. companies do not block access to the Internet. These are some of […]
Continue reading …Infographic: What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee?
10/10/2012 Comments Off on Infographic: What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee?
What Does It Take To Recruit A New Employee? This infographic is really selling the merits of interviewing job candidates by video. However, it does give an interesting and informative view of the employees recruiting process and and its costs. To repare the inforgraphic the HR Tech Blog partnered with Video Interviewing Provider Wowzer. They surveyed hundreds […]
Continue reading …Open Enrollment: Do Your Homework Before Choosing Health Care Benefits
10/10/2012 Comments Off on Open Enrollment: Do Your Homework Before Choosing Health Care Benefits
Employees in the U.S. soon will be asked to make decisions about their 2013 health care benefits during what most companies call open enrollment season. According to Aon Hewitt, Aon’s global human resources division, the benefits offered to employees next year may be affected by a number of factors, including rising health care costs, the […]
Continue reading …Nevada Hospital Official Says She Was Fired For Questioning Allegedly Inflated Medicare Bills
09/10/2012 Comments Off on Nevada Hospital Official Says She Was Fired For Questioning Allegedly Inflated Medicare Bills
By FRED SCHULTE, Center for Public Integrity– Paula Sellers suspected the small Nevada hospital where she worked was overcharging Medicare and other health insurers for some emergency room services. Sellers ran Boulder City Hospital’s health information department, which helped apply the complex series of Medicare billing codes doctors and hospitals must use to get paid […]
Continue reading …How To Detect & Prevent Workplace Bullying, A Chronic Corporate Disease
08/10/2012 Comments Off on How To Detect & Prevent Workplace Bullying, A Chronic Corporate Disease
By RAKESH MALHOTRA— Stories of workplace bullying are commonplace throughout the United States. Some real-life examples: Mavis: “When I started there, I was told that someone had been acting in the position and had expected to get the job. This person continually undermined me and turned other staff against me. I endured 12 months of […]
Continue reading …Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
06/10/2012 Comments Off on Bad Jobs Rising: 24% Of American Workers Stuck In Low-Paying Bad Jobs
Feel like you and a lot of people you know are stuck in bad jobs? If you’re employed in the United States, chances are about one-in-four that you have a bad job, according to a new study. If misery loves company then people with bad jobs have plenty. Almost one-fourth of U.S. workers are in […]
Continue reading …Is HR Right For You? 10 Traits Of Human Resources Professionals
05/10/2012 Comments Off on Is HR Right For You? 10 Traits Of Human Resources Professionals
From Paul Smith’s Welcome to the Occupation blog- Is HR right for you? This was the title and subject of a small article in the Metro newspaper. (Click here for the online article.) Despite my skepticism, the article offered some realistic, albeit general, advice that I concurred. “Solid analytic and math skills“, “strong sense of ethics […]
Continue reading …ECOMP- E-nnovating Federal Workers’ Compensation Claims and Benefits
03/10/2012 Comments Off on ECOMP- E-nnovating Federal Workers’ Compensation Claims and Benefits
By GARY STEINBERG, U.S. DOL– When a worker is injured on the job, the last thing they need is a towering headache of paperwork. Employers also want to resolve claims efficiently and get their injured employees back to work. Making this process more efficient has been a top business goal for operations across the country. […]
Continue reading …25 Qualities Of Leadership In A Happy, Profitable Workplace
26/09/2012 Comments Off on 25 Qualities Of Leadership In A Happy, Profitable Workplace
By Amy Frost from the Delivering Happiness at Work blog— We are all leaders in our workplace and wherever we are in our world. We DO make a difference if we choose to lead from where we are. We are stepping into a new age of leadership. The age of living the SPIRIT of leadership, where […]
Continue reading …- Celebrating the Resilience of Low-Income Women
- CEOs Get to Retire Comfortably. Workers Like Me Deserve the Same.
- Jobs Increased 339,000 In May, Unemployment Up 0.3% To 3.7%
- The decline of job creation at new establishments
- Contractor faces 2 serious citations after US Department of Labor finds safety failures led to welder’s death at Bonner Bridge demolition project
- Investigation into worker’s severe arm injury finds Cusseta auto parts manufacturer, supplier willfully ignored safety precautions
- ‘It’s a sweat factory’: Instacart workers ready to strike for pay and conditions
- Ships backed up outside US ports pumping out pollutants as they idle
- Privacy fears as Moscow metro rolls out facial recognition pay system
- ‘We are not machines’: Hollywood workers poised to strike for better conditions
- Boeing pilot indicted for allegedly deceiving US regulators over 737 Max
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Ipswich apprentice butcher encourages others to consider industry
- Over 10,000 John Deere workers strike over ‘years’ of poor treatment
- Corporations are pledging to be ‘water positive’. What does that mean?
- US Department of Labor investigation of crane collapse, double fatality on Interstate 10 finds Lufkin company failed to assemble crane properly
- For the 6th time in 7 years, federal inspectors find Illinois contractor putting construction workers at risk of industry’s deadliest hazard
- US Department of Labor proposes $83K in fines to healthcare facility for failing to protect workers from coronavirus hazards
- Facebook says it will do more to prevent online hate, harassment
- As U.S. prepares to reopen border, some urge Canada to relax testing requirement
- Biden orders companies to ease supply chain bottlenecks or he’ll ‘call them out’
- What is the ‘new model’ the EU is proposing for Northern Ireland?
- Apple to make 10 million fewer iPhones due to microchip shortage
- US Department of Labor, Mexican Consulate in Boston enter alliance to promote workplace safety, health among New England’s workers
- US Department of Labor sues Austin luxury car dealer that retaliated against employee who raised concerns of coronavirus hazards
- Vaccine hesitant New Yorkers consider leaving the city as mandates take effect
- Carbon emissions ‘will drop just 40% by 2050 with countries’ current pledges’
- House passes bill to raise US debt ceiling through early December
- ‘The stakes couldn’t be higher’: GE urged to invest in green US jobs
- Zellers returns — kind of — but the lowest price isn't quite the law
- Cement makers across world pledge large cut in emissions by 2030
- India faces electricity crisis as coal supplies run critically low
- California justice department to investigate enormous oil spill