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• Forget 100% Healed Policies In Order to Return to Work

  By Valentine HR Partners on June 14, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  ********************************************************** If your company has what is known as a “100% Healed” policy before you allow an employee to return to work, you have a policy that automatically violates the ADA. ********************************************************** Many companies have policies that require an employee… Read More ›

• They Heard It Through the Grapevine

  By Valentine HR Partners on June 13, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Posted on June 13, 2018 by Richard Lukesh Every organization, whether large or small, has an informal communication network typically known as “the grapevine.” Whether you like it or not, many employees get their information (both accurate and inaccurate) from the grapevine. In… Read More ›

• STOP Asking Candidates about Current Salary

  By Valentine HR Partners on May 17, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The following states have now passed some sort of equal pay legislation that either prohibits any questions about current or prior salary before an offer of employment or requires that the company not consider current or prior salary in make a salary offer to… Read More ›

• All’s Fair in Love and Rewards…or Maybe Not

  By Valentine HR Partners on May 16, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Each of us can answer the question, “Are you rewarded fairly?” But when asked to clarify why we answered as we did, it’s likely that our answers will be very different. From the furor over executive compensation excesses to the… Read More ›

• Issues with Standing Desks

  By Valentine HR Partners on May 10, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Employees who have to stand all day for their jobs would like the opportunity to sit. Now, employees who typicallysit all day want the option to stand. Sit-Stand or standing desks are becoming all the rage with various articles extolling the health benefits…. Read More ›

• USERRA Protects Military Personnel

  By Valentine HR Partners on May 3, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Here are HR legal and compliance issues you need to know: ********************************************************** Company pays over $350,000 to former employee because its  termination of the employee violated the legislation that  protects military personnel. ********************************************************** Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act … Read More ›

• Bench Strength

  By Valentine HR Partners on May 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  We’ve all heard the old adage, “May the best team win.” But what makes a team the “best?” Why does one team make it to the Super Bowl while another team does not? And how does this relate to your business? Winning… Read More ›

• Problems with PTO and Vacation Leave Donation Programs

  By Valentine HR Partners on April 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Here are HR legal and compliance issues you need to know: ********************************************************** Many times PTO and Vacation Leave Donation Programs create issues with employee rights under the ADA that go far beyond the morale issue of employees feeling coerced to… Read More ›

• Managers Must Drive Performance

  By Valentine HR Partners on April 11, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  According to research from the Corporate Executive Board (CEB), managers spend on average 21% of their time developing direct reports even though only 42% of the managers are effective at employee development. Additionally, the flattening of organizations has created an… Read More ›

• Is the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSMism) a Religion?

  By Valentine HR Partners on April 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  In today’s work world, companies cannot summarily reject  employees who present requests for religious  accommodations without a thorough investigation and then weighing the cost of such a rejection. Stephen Cavanaugh is a prisoner in the Nebraska State Penitentiary. Cavanaugh says… Read More ›

• The Value of Employee Wage & Benefit Statements

  By Valentine HR Partners on April 5, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  It’s that time of year again when companies begin thinking about providing employees with an easy-to-read document that shows the total value of compensation and benefits for the prior calendar year. Typically referred to as an Employee Wage & Benefit… Read More ›

• I-9 Forms and ICE Raids

  By Valentine HR Partners on April 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials raided over 120 businesses in the first 5 days of 2018 in their efforts to find undocumented workers.  Between 2/11/18 and 2/15/18, ICE agents visited 122 businesses. With the thousands of businesses in the… Read More ›

• Pay Equity Laws

  By Valentine HR Partners on April 2, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  As an FYI, our firm can conduct an audit of your pay practices, which is a critical first step in any equal pay compliance effort. First, we will review and help establish your compensation policies and systems to ensure your… Read More ›

• Defamation Lawsuits over References

  By Valentine HR Partners on March 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A defamation lawsuit will generally arise out of the administration of performance reviews, background checks, reference checks, workplace investigations, and comments about in-process litigation. A defamation lawsuit deals with one or both of the following: written defamation (libel) or oral defamation (slander) and will vary… Read More ›

• They Do What You Do, Not What You Say

  By Valentine HR Partners on July 4, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Posted on June 27, 2018 by Richard Lukesh After executives are finished handing out employee manuals and annual reports and are finished making speeches about corporate results and values, the factor that drives the culture and subsequently ethical behavior of a firm is… Read More ›

• Fired for Racial Slur, Employee Can Get UC Benefits

  By Valentine HR Partners on June 21, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  ********************************************************** A dissenting judge in a PA Unemployment Compensation (UC) case outlines how an employee fired for a racial slur could get UC. ********************************************************** Attorney Eric Meyer recently wrote about this case in his blog, “The Employer Handbook.” In the case, Stephen Kraft… Read More ›

• Sense of Humor in the Workplace

  By Valentine HR Partners on June 20, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  “A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower A few years ago, a survey was conducted using 1,400 executives who were asked whether an employee’s sense… Read More ›

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