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Hospitality Workers’ Compensation Insurance Costs and Solutions

by Todd Seiders in Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention. Posted May 19, 2014

The worst kind of pain is self-inflicted pain. Workers’ comp insurance rates have skyrocketed in the past 18 months. The higher rates are due to increased medical costs, the unknown factors of Obamacare, and employees making more claims due to the recession and their fear of being laid off or losing hours. Many companies have ...

Globally Auditing Human Resources Compliance

by Don Dowling in Human Resources. Posted May 13, 2014

Globalization pushes multinationals to align more and more aspects of human resources across borders. Multinationals now routinely globalize many of their HR programs, policies, benefits and other “offerings” that, back in the old days, would have been purely local. But globalizing HR offerings causes ripple effects; a big ripple is that headquarters has to watch ...

Gender Expression in the Workplace: A Primer for Employers

by Victoria Slade in Human Resources. Posted May 12, 2014

As you may know, discrimination based on gender identity is unlawful in several states and many cities. This includes both the State of Washington and the City of Seattle. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has also taken the position that gender identity is protected under Title VII’s prohibition against discrimination based on sex. While the antidiscrimination laws that protect ...

In Flight Cameras Would Assist in Accident Reconstruction, Crew Training and Enhanced Passenger Safety

by Steve Cocco in Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Safety & Security, Travel. Posted May 8, 2014

With the final chapter on Malaysian Air flight #370 still unwritten, many aviation and security analysts seem to have attributed the tragedy to a sinister event, perhaps on the part of the pilot in command or the first officer. Some have speculated that another crew member might have been responsible or even a passenger or ...

I Did Not Care About Yoga Until It Changed My Life

by San San Lee in Human Resources. Posted May 4, 2014

Yoga Kicking up to a handstand at age 50? Five years ago, I would never have believed it. For years, while I provided lip service to the notion that I am able to learn at any age, I was in truth resigned to my then-current state of existence, with no real intention to acquire new knowledge ...

Global Employee Handbooks

by Don Dowling in Human Resources, Legal. Posted April 15, 2014

Most every major American employer has issued an employee handbook explaining to its US staff how its US workplace works. It has been said that “[a] well written, lawful [US domestic] employee handbook has no downsides; it provides…all the flexibility necessary to address innumerable possibilities when it comes to employee actions and inactions.” (J.B. Sandburg, “Creating ...

Common Accident Causes are Frequently Linked to Poor Employee Discipline

by Jesse Denton in Human Resources, Safety & Security. Posted March 27, 2014

Did you know that over 80 out of every 100 accidents are the fault of the person involved in the incident? It’s true. Unsafe acts cause four times as many accidents as unsafe conditions. Accidents occur for many reasons. In many situations, people tend to look for “things” or reasons to blame when an accident ...

State of the Unions – New Tactics Target Unorganized Workers

by Matthew Korn in Human Resources. Posted March 6, 2014

If you’ve been following the news, you probably realize that it has been a busy year for organized labor. The percentage of unionized workers in the private sector has fallen to historic lows, leaving unions with fewer dues-paying members, and motivating them to adopt new tactics to stem the decline. Exploiting a more favorable environment created by recent ...

International Dismissal Toolkit: Individual Employment Terminations

by Don Dowling in Human Resources. Posted January 26, 2014

International Dismissal Toolkit: Individual Employment Terminations Firing an employee in the United States can be a challenge. Group firings — reductions-in-force — can be an even bigger challenge. And from the point of view of a multinational headquartered in the United States, overseas individual dismissals and “collective redundancies” can be an intractable challenge. We often ...

NLRB Finally Punts on Rule Requiring Posting of Right to Unionize Notice

by Bennett Pine in Human Resources. Posted January 20, 2014

In several prior issues of the Employment Law Insider Alert, we have reported on the ups and downs of the efforts of the National Labor Relations (“NLRB” or “Board”) to require almost all private sector employers to post an 11-inch by 17-inch notice in the workplace advising employees of their right to form and join a ...

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