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What Fantasy Football Can Teach Us About Hiring As the beginning of autumn draws closer and the NFL preseason begins, fantasy football managers across the country begin their comprehensive draft preparation. It’s common practice at this point to begin scouring through hundreds of player profiles and projections, engaging in several mock drafts, and exhausting every resource possible to get an edge on your competition. There’s a method to the madness of forming an all-star roster, and there are many strategies here that employers can adopt when hiring best-fit talent for their companies. Below, I’ve listed a few of the most integral parts of the process, just in time for the season. Build a Great Scouting Department Successful hiring begins with prioritizing the importance of the roles you are trying to fill.Read on. 5 ways to Grow a More Human Workplace Trust is most easily defined as reliance on another person’s integrity. Psychologically, the need for trust arises from our interdependence with others. The presence of trust implies respect, cooperation, and honesty. But it also implies risk. Trust is abstract and intangible. It can be very fragile and, once lost, it is not easily reestablished. When we spend the majority of our time at work, it is imperative that we trust those around us. And yet, most of us have probably worked in jobs where trust either had never been established or was completely lost during the course of our employment. When trust deteriorates, low morale becomes widespread, employees become less engaged, and turnover increases dramatically. Read on.FMLA and Benefits Question: I have an employee out on FMLA. They were paying for their portion of the health premium, but for the last month, they did not. Should I cancel their health insurance? Answer: According to the Department of Labor (DOL), a covered employer is required to maintain group health insurance coverage, including family coverage, for an employee on FMLA leave on the same terms as if the employee continued to work.
Read on. Final Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Rule The Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council) and the US Department of Labor (DOL) simultaneously released, on August 24, a final rule and accompanying guidance implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order signed by President Obama in July 2014. The final rule requires that companies bidding on federal contracts or subcontracts of at least $500,000 disclose violations of labor laws, to be taken into account by contracting officers in making their contract awards. After issuing the proposed rule in May 2015, the FAR Council and the DOL received over 12,500 comments from a wide range of businesses and federal contractors, industry associations, and labor union and advocacy groups. While the final rule makes several noteworthy changes to the proposed version that will lessen the compliance burden on contractors, it still imposes substantial compliance obligations on all potential federal contractors. Read more.OSHA Post-Accident Drug Testing On August 10, 2016, OSHA's final rules on electronic reporting of workplace injuries went into effect. The new rules require employers to implement "a reasonable procedure" for employees to report workplace injuries that does not deter or discourage employees from making such reports. Interestingly, the new OSHA rules may impact many employers' drug testing policies. It is not uncommon for employers to have a drug/alcohol testing policy that mandates testing following a workplace accident or injury. But according to the commentary accompanying the new rules, OSHA views mandatory post-accident drug/alcohol testing as a possible deterrent to the reporting of workplace safety incidents. As such, an employer must be wary of continued reliance on such "automatic" testing policies and procedures. |
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