By logging on to
a company Web site, employees can look up company policies, sign up for health
care providers, make changes to their benefit elections, and check on the status
of their pension plans.
Wouldn’t it be nice to have someone in HR who was able to keep
up with all the latest news about benefits and compensation, as well as all the
legal issues involved with those topics?
If you can measure the value of a corporate benefit with "warm fuzzies," this one’s a winner. If you’d rather measure in terms of dollars and cents, you’ll still like it.
Don’t be brave. Going to work sick endangers the health of co-workers and can even impact businesses' bottom lines, researchers and physicians tell the Hearald-Sun of Durham, N.C.
Bruce Katcher, an industrial and organizational psychologist, has identified what he calls the seven universal complaints of employees. So, if Katcher can put his finger on employee dissatisfaction so easily, why can't corporate leaders?
The case of Thompson v. Tracor Flight Sys., Inc. illustrates how an individual who quits because of intolerable conditions may have a legitimate constructive discharge claim.
