www.thinkhr.com A whopping 46% of new hires fail and are let go within 18 months of being hired. The blame doesn’t always fall on employees. In fact, more often than not, it probably points to employers, which means there’s risk of a wrongful termination lawsuit. Check out a few tips to help set up your … Continued
Marvin H. Feldman, CLU, ChFC, RFC, President and CEO of Life Happens www.lifehappens.org The kiddie tax is a tax rule that is levied on unearned income (interest, dividends and capital gains) earned by children under the age of 19 and full-time college students under the age of 24. For 2016, all of the child’s unearned … Continued
www.thinkhr.com Minimum Wage Increase for Employees of the Commonwealth and Organizations Receiving State Contracts On March 7, 2016, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf signed Executive Order 2016-2, which increases the minimum wage for employees of the Commonwealth to $10.15 per hour, effective immediately, and provides for annual increases based on inflation beginning in January of 2017. … Continued
www.hr360.com Every supervisor and HR pro knows that managing employee time off is a fact of life in the modern workplace. Whether it’s a well-deserved vacation, personal time to attend to family or private business, or sick leave, accommodating an employee’s need for time away from the office is widely accepted as good business practice … Continued
www.hr360.com In the modern workplace, we are fortunate to embrace diversity in many forms. In all likelihood, your company or organization employs individuals of many different backgrounds and abilities. At times, these differences may require what is known as an accommodation–a change in the work environment (or in the way things are usually done) that … Continued
www.lifehappens.org Question: “Will my sport cause me problems in purchasing new life insurance?” Answer: in most cases no, but there are some hobbies that may be a problem for the underwriters in the insurance company. Here is a list of seven high-risk sports that are problematic when it comes to getting life insurance. 1. Ice … Continued
www.livestrong.com The many fees associated with medical insurance can be confusing. Premiums are the fees paid for medical coverage for a specific benefit period. In addition to premiums, other out-of-pocket expenses include co-payments and deductibles, all of which vary with the insurance you have. Medical Insurance Premiums As with car insurance or home insurance, a … Continued
Abridged from WWW.CDC.GOV About 1 in 5 (21%) adults meet the 2008 Physical Activity Guidelines. Less than 3 in 10 high school students get at least 60 minutes of physical activity every day. Physical activity can improve health. People who are physically active tend to live longer and have lower risk for heart disease, stroke, … Continued
Stephen Miller, CEBE, Online Editor/Manager www.shrm.org To hang on to top talent, HR practitioners also will roll out new, creative and customized voluntary benefits. Student loan assistance, anyone? Here’s how benefit experts tell SHRM Online how they plan to do it: Taking Consumerism Up a Notch This often means promoting health care consumerism by shifting … Continued
WWW.HR360.COM “Meet me in my office. There’s something we need to discuss.” Hearing those words can strike dread in the hearts of employees, which is why so many managers and supervisors are so reluctant to say them. However, the ability to have difficult conversations, and to make those conversations both effective and productive, is an … Continued
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