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Make Your Supervisors the Front Line of Defense Against Employee Lawsuits
BLR's new and improved Easy Trainer: Hiring, Discipline & Termination gives you customizable, easy-to-use training sessions on key employment topics such as hiring, discipline, interviewing, grounds for termination, and many more.
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25 Fastest-Growing Occupations
The Occupational Information Network (O*NET) identifies the occupations that are growing "much faster than average" across all industries and predicts which occupations will grow the most.
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Employees Will Put Off Retirement in Order to Maintain Health Coverage
A new analysis finds that employees without access to health care coverage other than their employer's plan are more likely to defer retirement in order to retain coverage. It further found that employees with defined benefit plans are more likely to retire in any given year than their counterparts with defined contribution plans.
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This Week's Poll
Has an employee left your company because of rising gas prices in the past 12 months?
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Last Week's Poll
Most of you who report that you offer flexible work arrangements say that you don't measure their effectiveness.
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A-Z Wage and Hour Compliance Help for Your State
...And salary data too!
Arranged alphabetically by topic, Employee Compensation in [Your State] explains in plain-English all key state and federal wage and hour laws--from minimum wage to overtime classification.
Meanwhile, BLR's exclusive wage and salary survey data ensures your pay rates are right for any job in your state and region.
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How Much Will Seasonal Workers Be Paid This Summer?
A recent survey has found that two-thirds (66%) of employers hiring seasonal workers this summer will consider these employees for permanent placement/positions with their company. What can these workers expect from their paychecks?
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Poll: Marked Increase in Number of Employees Voicing Financial Woes
A large majority of HR professionals report that they have witnessed an increase in the number of employees expressing concern over their finances, 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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Featured Article
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Onsite Clinics: Key Element to Reining In Healthcare Costs?
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Healthcare costs are an increasing burden to individuals and to companies, and it is obvious to most Americans that the system is broken. Stuart Clark, executive vice president of Comprehensive Health Services, says many of the strategies tried in the past to rein in costs have had disappointing results. Impatient with waiting for solutions, businesses have recently begun pursuing solutions on their own.
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
We have a construction business that requires all workers to congregate to go through the security gate together to report to the worksite. Do the workers need to be paid from the time they must show up (15 minutes) before they go through the gate?
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HR Challenge®: GINA
On May 21, 2008, President Bush signed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) into law. GINA prohibits employers from discriminating against employees or applicants on the basis of genetic information. To whom does the law apply?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Wage Garnishment for Unpaid Loan
An HR Forum subscriber who works for a bank says that an employee is overdue on a loan payment from the bank. The subscriber wants to know if the employer-bank is legally allowed to take part of the employee's disposable earnings.
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Best Practices in Compensation & Benefits Newsletter
This monthly newsletter will ensure that you are on top of the latest compensation and benefits news.
SmartJobs
We've compiled over 500 carefully selected examples of written job descriptions in this powerful CD-ROM tool to make your job easier.
EZ IT Job Descriptions
Writing job descriptions for those hard-to-describe computer jobs just got easier. One hundred different IT and computer job positions are all available in Word, and have been carefully reviewed by BLR editors for quality and legal pitfalls.
FLSA: Wage and Hour Self-Audit Guide--Download
Download this guide to easily determine whether you are in an industry or employ the type of worker who is most typically at risk. It will help you quickly determine the most cost-effective method of compliance with the revised Fair Labor Standards Act.
FMLA: What You Need to Know
Here's the easy way to educate your employees about their rights and responsibilities under the Family and Medical Leave Act.
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