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It’s time to post your OSHA forms

02/02/2010

Notice anything missing from your bulletin board? As of Feb. 1, most employers should have posted an official annual summary of their OSHA logs. If you haven’t done so, get cracking. With a nationwide OSHA audit looming, it’s more important than ever.

Sued? Consider impact of treating co-workers poorly

02/01/2010

One unhappy employee may not have much of an effect on your organization, even if she sues. But watch out! Handle the lawsuit poorly and you could see litigation grow as co-workers join in.

The inaccessible break room and the ADA

01/29/2010

Q. Our break/locker room is located upstairs. We have several employees (age 66 to 77) who are having trouble climbing the steep stairs due to advancing age. We’re afraid they’ll fall. They all say they’d crawl up the stairs before they quit.

Feds outlaw texting for commercial drivers

01/26/2010

The U.S. Department of Transportation recently announced a federal ban on texting by drivers of commercial vehicles such as large trucks and buses. Even if your employees don’t drive big rigs, you need a policy prohibiting texting while driving. We show you the basics to include.

HR Professionals Week — Free Podcasts

01/25/2010
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HR Record Retention Guidelines

01/25/2010
A records retention schedule ensures that an organization keeps the records it needs for operational, legal, fiscal or historical reasons, and then destroys them when they’re no longer useful. You may base your records retention schedule on your own experience and research of legal mandates or on what other companies are doing. Whatever your method, […]

Company Records: What to Keep, What to Dump

01/25/2010
A records retention schedule ensures that an organization keeps the records it needs for operational, legal, fiscal or historical reasons, and then destroys them when they’re no longer useful. You may base your records retention schedule on your own experience and research of legal mandates or on what other companies are doing. Whatever your method, […]

Drafting an auto-use policy? Here’s a crash course

01/25/2010

If your employees travel on company business, use company cars or rent cars for business, make sure you have an auto-use policy that makes it clear that zany antics, such as one employee’s 600-mile detour to Dixie, fall outside the scope of employment …

Communication is top benefit at Arizona American Water

01/25/2010

At Arizona American Water, HR goes “overboard” with employee communication, says Senior HR Manager Linda Stillman, sending electronic newsletters around the office, paper newsletters to employees’ homes and setting up teleconferences to share information.

Soft benefits fill in for small employer

01/22/2010

With just 135 employees, staffing agency Winter, Wyman in Boston is limited when it comes to employee benefits, says Michelle Roccia, senior VP of corporate organizational development. So it offers the standard medical and dental insurance, and then managers come up with “soft benefits” to keep employees happy and make the organization attractive to applicants.