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The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) enables eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave during a 12-month period for qualifying family and medical reasons. While the FMLA provides a federal baseline for covered employers and eligible employees, some states have adopted their own state-mandated family and medical leave programs. These state programs may differ from federal FMLA requirements. For example, unlike the federal FMLA, the N

At the time of hire, employers must complete Form I-9, which is an employment eligibility verification. Many employers have utilized E-Verify to accomplish this easier. E-Verify is an online system that compares any information obtained by Form I-9 with government records, confirming an employee’s identity and authorization to work in the United States. First and foremost, it’s important to have a certain degree of understanding of the requirements of Form I-9. Instructions o

Recruitment can be a time consuming and costly process, which incentivizes business owners to make data-driven hiring decisions that can be defended. Looking for a licensed dental hygienist? A professional licensure check is just one click away. That’s the easy part to vet. More challenging is making determinations about more subjective factors. To that end, though both skill-based and culture-based factors are important to investigate during the candidacy process, hiri

Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) refers to the outsourcing of certain business tasks to a third-party provider. BPO serves a wide range of industries, though its inception began in manufacturing. The most significant reason businesses utilize BPO is the freedom it offers your workforce to focus on activities that build your competitive advantage. Rather than expend your efforts on managing facets of your business that do not directly result in customer sales and revenue gen

Partnerships with insurance brokers can sometimes expose small business owners to terminology they’ve not heard before. In this blog, we’ll be sharing some of the most common business insurance terms, together with a brief introduction to what they refer to, so you can be better equipped going into your next meeting with your business insurance broker. Mod: Your company’s experience modification rating (EMR) is sometimes referred to as a mod. This value will tell you how y

Two of the top concerns for employers should be creating a secure work environment and protecting the privacy of company and customer/client information. To that end, some employers choose to ban the use of personal phone mobile devices by employees while they are at work. However, it’s important to understand the limitations of such policies. Invasion of Privacy is a common law tort that protects individuals’ privacy from intrusions or unwanted breaches of privacy. Similarly

The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, and youth employment standards. All employees in the private sector and federal, state, and local governments must comply with these standards. Correct employee classification of exempt versus nonexempt employee status is important to all employers. Employers cannot arbitrarily assign their employees to one classification or the other based upon employee requests or ease of payroll processing. Instead, the FLSA offers clea

Throughout history, companies have utilized mergers and acquisitions (M&A) to consolidate their businesses for a number of reasons. Whether it’s an opportunity to gain new product lines, customer bases, human capital, or even just to absorb some of the competition, M&As have been carried out for decades. In 2022 alone, over 18,000 M&A deals closed in the United States. Yet according to a recent report by Harvard Business Review, between 70-90% of M&A transactions fail. Why?

It is imperative that all employers provide a productive work environment that is free from discrimination. Discrimination refers to employment decisions that are motivated by a protected characteristic. Employment decisions may include, for example: hiring, firing, transferring, promoting, demoting, benefits, compensation, and other conditions of employment. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is responsible for enforcing federal laws that make it u

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In recent years, there’s been increased attention on the importance of a best-in-class Customer Experience (CX). According to Zandesk’s 2022 CX Trends Report, 61% of respondents would switch to a competitor after just one bad interaction or experience with a company. Yet, many leadership teams and managers struggle to assess the value and success of their customer service. Luckily, with the help of a few key metrics, employers can create actionable plans to improve the qual

Whatever you want to call it, companies across the country are faced with a dilemma. How can they attract, hire, and retain employees? In February 2021, Anthony Klotz, a management professor at Texas A&M University, started using the term Great Resignation to describe the large numbers of people quitting their jobs. In April 2021, close to 4 million Americans had quit their job. This trend has not stopped. The Job Openings and Labor Turnover Survey reported that in the eight

Fitness classes. Nutrition challenges. Team building exercises. All of these are great examples of workplace wellness programs designed to help support both the physical and mental wellbeing of employees. Effective wellness programs not only help employees, but they also improve engagement, increase overall productivity, and can help with recruitment and retention efforts. But there is a new wellness challenge for today’s employers. FlexJobs reports that that remote work has

Regardless of the industry, businesses today cannot risk business continuity due to the loss of a key contributor. Monica Siciliano, Partner at De Novo HRC, notes “When you lose an employee, either through resignation or retirement, the company loses the institutional knowledge the employee takes with them. The company also incurs costs to recruit, hire, and train a replacement.” Of course, not every disruption is permanent, some are temporary, such as sick vacation leave.

With summer quickly approaching, there is an increased risk of heat illness for employees who are exposed to working conditions in high temperatures. Heat illness refers to any serious ailment caused by too much heat. This includes heat exhaustion, cramps, and heat strokes. Both employers and employees need to be (a) aware of the dangers and early signs of heat illness, (b) knowledgeable about how to prevent it, (c) aware of helpful OSHA tools, and (d) prepared to take action

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The competition for employees is at an all-time high, making employee retention a priority for all small and mid-sized business owners. As a business owner or member of an executive team, you’ve spent a lot of time hiring and training your staff; but have you spent enough time proactively creating a strong and positive culture that results in an engaged workforce with high retention rates? Three actions that are needed to create an engaged workforce are: Hire, Train, and Re

When it comes to employee performance reviews, even the most prepared managers can succumb to certain pitfalls. These mistakes can potentially lead to lower employee morale and engagement and the next thing you know, you are looking for a replacement. This is time-consuming and costly anytime, but with the Great Reshuffle and the intense competition for talent, it becomes even more important to nurture the employees you have, and effective performance reviews can help. So, to

Now that the darkest days of the pandemic are behind us, business owners may finally feel like they can breathe again. That’s not to say that the pandemic didn’t create lasting changes to how we conduct and manage business. One of the biggest changes was the rise in distributed teams: employees working remotely in different physical locations versus a common workplace. Distributed workforces rely upon virtual communication and collaboration to replace in-person interactions