by Caroline | Jan 20, 2016 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, HRIS, Leadership, Management
In case you haven’t heard, the IRS deadlines for Affordable Care Act reporting requirements have been pushed back. For companies that are on the ball and scrambled to do whatever they had to do to make the deadlines, this is an annoyance. It’s like people who prepared...
by Caroline | Dec 30, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, Holiday Wishes!!, HRCompliance, HRIS, HRSafety, Labor Law, Management, People Evaluation, rewards, teamwork
2015 was, in a lot of ways, a big year of shifting. With a crazy battle for talent and everybody trying to figure out how to create a winning culture, there were many organizations wrestling to figure out how to flatten their hierarchies and what benefits would really...
by Caroline | Dec 16, 2015 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Recruiting
Not that you need reminding, but there are just two more weeks until we celebrate the end of 2015 and usher in a new year. Not to be downer but…new rules are about to kick in across the country in terms of 2016 employment law changes. I am sure most organizations are...
by Caroline | Oct 21, 2015 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR, People Evaluation, rewards
Every year, there is at least one book and a spate of articles about the evils of annual performance reviews. Basically it’s the same theme – Toss the reviews! Ban the process! These writers think performance reviews shouldn’t exist. They say managers hate them...
by Caroline | Oct 7, 2015 | HRCompliance, HRIS, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
I read a statistic recently that 77 percent of HR professionals say their departments have gone paperless. And I started thinking about the other 23 percent, having people come in and get a piece of paper and fill out all the boxes—oops, mistake? Scratch it out, or,...
by Caroline | Sep 30, 2015 | HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management
So here’s the fun thing about the fourth quarter: You’ve only got so much time to get stuff done before the holidays kick in, making everything merry…and complicated. One of those things you really need to make sure gets done is planning for your Affordable Care Act...
