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Generic or Specific Termination Letters: What’s in Your Company’s Best Interest?
Providing accurate and specific termination letters may be in the company's best interests because details of the situation serve to demonstrate that the termination was legitimate, consistent and based on…
Viewpoint: Time to Revisit the Electronic Distribution Rules for SPDs
For most employers, creating and distributing summary plan descriptions (SPDs) for each health plan option is viewed as a necessary evil. Complicating matters are the nearly 15-year-old Department of Labor…
Why HR Needs to Prepare for Increase in Ransomware Demands
Ransomware is cheap to produce and attacks—in which computers are infected with a virus that holds any files hostage until a ransom is paid—can be extremely profitable and will hound…
Report Reaffirms Generational Tendencies at Work
For the first time in history, many workplaces are experiencing up to five generations working together, creating situations that present opportunities and challenges for HR professionals
Marketplace Notice Forms’ ‘Expiration Date’ Isn’t Cause for Alarm
The Department of Labor’s model health insurance marketplace notice forms indicate that they will expire at the end of January 2017. This has caused some concern among employers over whether…
In Focus: On Trump’s First Days in Office, Regulations, Federal Hiring Frozen
President Donald Trump stopped new federal regulation and froze federal hiring soon after he took office
Is It Time to Ditch the Annual Employee Survey?
We need to double-down on measuring employee engagement. I recently fielded an employee engagement survey for my company; it was the first such assessment we had conducted since 2011
How Trump’s First Executive Order Could Affect Employer Health Plans
President Donald Trump's Jan. 20 executive order directing federal agencies that oversee the Affordable Care Act to waive or delay burdensome taxes, penalties and regulations could affect employer plans’ coverage…
Viewpoint: HR Systems of Record Have Evolved Considerably
We are in an amazing new time for technology: new tools like Slack, Workplace by Facebook, Microsoft Skype for Teams, HipChat and dozens of other innovative new tools are starting…