Year-end can come with holiday presents, parties, and year-end bonuses. It’s also quite normal to do annual pay increases effective at the first of the new year. These things are all good, but it may impact what the great resignation looks like at your office. If year-end bonuses and
Disney World just said they would no longer require staff (cast members) to be vaccinated against Covid-19. While Disney said earlier that they believed mandatory vaccination was the right path and that “more than 90% of active Florida-based Cast Members have already verified that they are fully vaccinated,” they decided
Former police lieutenant William Kelly is asking for his job back after the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal. Norfolk, Virginia, police fired Kelly in April after he made an anonymous donation to a defense fund for Rittenhouse. Hackers outed what Kelly had wanted to be an anonymous donation, and the Norfolk police department
Join Suzanne and Brenda as we discuss HR leader, Heidi Pancake’s, nanny. Seriously, it’s what you need. Plus, here what Suzanne did when there was a naked guy in her pool. (Don’t worry, the show is safe for work and for families!)
On November 4, 2021, OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) announced the details of the Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) for Covid regulations in businesses of 100 employees or more. Two weeks later, after a court ruling by the 5th Circuit rejecting the ETS, OSHA announced that they would not be enforcing
If a new law meant you could never hire anyone new, would that affect how you approached performance improvement plans (PIPs)? You’d probably look at performance improvement plans as tools to help employees be happy, engaged, and productive, and not as documentation for an upcoming termination. They can
My employees say they are underpaid, and the thing is, they are right. Salaries are rising, and I cannot keep up. (I’m not one of those CEOs making millions — my take-home pay is less than my vice president’s pay.) Pre-pandemic, their salaries were at market rate, and the
I (along with my brilliant jobshare partner) ran layoffs for a Fortune 100 company for several years. Our names and contact numbers went out on every single severance package, which means we handled hundreds and hundreds of calls with questions about this, that, or the other regarding the
