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Hiring and Social Networking Sites Audio Conference--April 30
During this 90-minute audio conference, our expert will give you the legal pros and cons of relying on online data when you screen potential and current employees - with a special emphasis on information found via Google, Facebook, MySpace, and other "social networking" sites. You'll learn when you can use these sites for HR purposes, how to gauge whether what you learn about your workers is true or false, and the types of online material you should never search for.
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NJ Passes Paid Family Leave Legislation
Lawmakers in New Jersey have approved legislation that will establish a paid family leave program in the state, joining California and Washington in requiring paid family leave.
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3 Business Practices that Can 'Buy' Loyalty as Effectively as Pay
The results of a new survey conducted among CEOs suggests that employer attempts to boost employee retention shouldn't simply consist of giving out raises. In fact, the survey suggests that offering employees more money to earn their loyalty may be less effective than the improvement of three simple business practices.
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This Week's Poll
Will the economic downturn impact your hiring of college graduates this year?
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Last Week's Poll
The vast majority of you report that your company requires employees to gain preapproval for overtime, but not all of you put this rule in writing.
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Thousands of Jobs with National, State, Local Salary Data at Your Fingertips
Get reliable salary survey data for national, state, and metro areas in just seconds. Whether you need pay rates for an individual job in your state, or pay scales for an entire industry, Compensation.BLR.com can help.
This online compensation resource gives you current, reliable information on thousands of job titles and hundreds of industries. You can be confident using these data to benchmark salaries in your organization. Pair the salary information with BLR's rate ranges, and you have a complete compensation system.
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Job Site: 'Top Employers' to Increase Master's Hiring in 2008
A new survey finds that "Top Master's Employers" plan to increase their hiring of college graduates with master's degrees by 22% this year.
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Poll: Job Market Doesn't Favor HR Pros
The majority of HR professionals believe that the current supply of and demand for those in their profession does not work in their favor, according to a recent Compensation.BLR.com poll.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the last 90 days.
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Law Firm Helps Parents Meet Needs of Work and Family
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While a 70+-hour workweek may be less common than it once was, the legal profession is intense and demanding. Women (and men) who are in the early stages of climbing the ladder in their chosen field are also often at the point in life when they want to start a family. These two aspirations collide, and women may decide to quit the field entirely. What can law firms do to address these issues?
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
Due to budget constraints, we will need to eliminate five positions within our organization. However, two of these positions are held by key personnel that we would like to retain on the books IF we can reduce their salary. What are our options for keeping these two employees, but at a lesser salary?
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HR Challenge®: USERRA
An employee knowingly provides written notice of intent not to return to the position of employment after service in the uniformed services. Under the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) of 1994, to what rights and benefits is the employee NOT entitled?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Absences and Privacy
An HR Forum subscriber wants to know if a workplace policy of posting a calendar that displays which employees are absent raises any issues that could put the company at risk.
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