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A question-and-answer newsletter addressing some of the most common and most obscure HR dilemmas.
Dear Workforce: How Should We Fill Vacancies: From Within or With External Candidates?
This is an important question that too few HR pros consider.
Dear Workforce: How Much Attrition Is Acceptable?
Your recruiters, trainers and managers all share responsibility for retention.
Dear Workforce: Quelling Anxiety About Job Evaluations
Here’s an explanation for employees: Job evaluation primarily is to ensure that people are appropriately paid for their responsibilities. Performance evaluations judge a person’s contributions to the job. The two share nothing in common.
Dear Workforce: How Does 1,000-Hour Rule Apply to Non-Retirement Benefits?
The 1,000-hour rule is best known in retirement circles but also applies to group welfare plans, with respect to nondiscrimination testing. Unfortunately, it is not applied on a consistent basis and does not apply to all benefits.
Dear Workforce: How Does the Stimulus Bill Change COBRA Provisions?
The most notable development: It provides a temporary subsidy that covers 65 percent of the COBRA premium charged to former employees for up to nine months if the employee was involuntarily terminated and the event occurred on or after September 1, 2008, and before December 31, 2009.
Dear Workforce: What Lessons Could We Learn From Other Companies About Holding On to Older Workers?
Encourage boomers to tap their unused talents, raise their competency level, explore professional development, prepare for future challenges and transfer skills/knowledge.
Dear Workforce: What Impact Does the Stimulus Bill Have on Payroll/Benefits Administration?
Among key changes: To comply with the stimulus-package provisions, employers must implement rebate/credit for their workers by April 1.
Dear Workforce: When Does the Income Limitation on a COBRA Subsidy Apply: Before or After Termination?
The limitation applies to the income a person received in the same taxable year in which the subsidy is received.
Dear Workforce: We Are Overwhelmed With the Task of Workforce Planning. What Does It Mean and How Should We Begin?
Workforce planning can dramatically “smooth out the pains” associated with volatility and ensure your organization’s talent capability and capacity are always aligned to drive performance.
Dear Workforce: How Do We Teach Our Managers to Become More Effective Communicators?
The fundamentals of active listening should help supervisors and managers emerge as respected, forceful and trusted leaders.
Dear Workforce: How Do I Counsel My Company’s Morale-Killing CEO (and Not Get Fired)?
Start by having a confab with the head of your company about this assignment. It’s critical that you obtain his unwavering support for this challenge.
Dear Workforce: How Do Professional Services Firms Tie Pay to Performance?
Done properly, this type of compensation can be designed to directly support the overall business goals of the firm, and can provide for appropriate and effective employee motivation.
Dear Workforce: How Do We Reverse a Trend of Tapping People as ‘Interim’ Leaders Who Are Not Adequately Prepared?
Take out any guesswork by creating a pool of individual contributors who show an interest in advancing to leadership roles. Build a complete success profile that includes a person’s knowledge, experience, competencies and personal characteristics. This process will move you from taking the easy and convenient route to one that is more sustainable.
Dear Workforce: How Do We Correct Misclassifications Under FLSA?
The statute-of-limitations period is normally two years but could be as long as three years.
Dear Workforce: How Do I Pre-empt a Workplace Affair?
Professionalism, performance, workplace environment, credibility and lack of judgment are five issues you must address head on.
Dear Workforce: How to Go Beyond a Pat on the Back
Use the 80/20 rule to determine levels of employee performance. This refers to the idea that 80 percent of employees are middle-of-the-pack performers.
Dear Workforce: Which Interview Questions Will Help Us Understand the Emotional Intelligence of Applicants?
If using an interview, be certain that it asks standardized, structured, behavioral questions relating to the work. If using a test, choose one that is documented to measure emotional intelligence.
Dear Workforce: How Do COBRA Changes Affect Companies That Fall Below the Employee Limit?
The COBRA subsidy applies to companies, but only if the there is a comparable state COBRA-type law and the plan is insured.
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