by Caroline | Apr 15, 2015 | Company Culture, Culture, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR
The blurry controversy over public vs. private in the workplace just keeps growing. There are questions like whether your employees can rag about you on Facebook, and whether you can root around in candidates’ social media to find people who have the inside dirt on...
by Caroline | Apr 1, 2015 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management, Non profit HR
When I was in college, I worked at a women’s clothing boutique. One of the girls I worked with also had a part-time job at the shoe store down the street and offered everyone at the clothing boutique her employee discount from the shoe store. We were thrilled, until...
by Caroline | Jan 28, 2015 | Compensation and Benefits, Hiring, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management, Non profit HR
House Republicans have filed suit over the Affordable Care Act last week, the most recent of many filed against the ACA by opponents of the law. Meanwhile, the dates and numbers for various ACA compliance issues keep changing and it just seems like it would be easier...
by Caroline | Jan 7, 2015 | Company Culture, Compensation and Benefits, HRCompliance, Labor Law, Management
From an HR perspective, 2015 is The Year of Employment Regulations. Consider this: a bunch of states and cities have raised their minimum wage this year and many others plan to raise it again over the next few years. Many places are implementing Ban the Box...
by Caroline | Dec 3, 2014 | Hiring, HRCompliance, Management, Recruiting
In the brouhaha about four people suing LinkedIn for allegedly violating the Fair Credit Reporting Act, people seem to be lining up either on the side of the plaintiffs–that LinkedIn has to be more careful of members’ privacy–or on the side of LinkedIn,...
by Caroline | Sep 3, 2014 | Company Culture, HRCompliance, Management, teamwork, Training
So, here are some things HR shouldn’t be asked to do. It’s not HR’s job to stand by the time clock and discipline people who show up late. It’s not HR’s job to figure out whether to hand out coffee cups or baseball caps to buck up a company’s crumbling morale. (Answer...
