Category Archives: Human Resources
What We’re Reading: All Florida Employers Must Use E-Verify as of July 1, 2023
The use of E-Verify has been mandatory in Florida for public employers and for private employers who contract with state and local governments or receive state incentive dollars. A new Florida law, however, will require all private employers with at … Read Full Post
Termination for Poor Performance is Often a Management Failure – Part 2
We started this two-part blog series about performance issues by looking at the aspects of work-life that perhaps make us too busy to devote the time to remediate staff behaviors that miss the mark. In this part, we’ll answer the … Read Full Post
Termination for Poor Performance is Often a Management Failure – Part 1
Supervising an employee’s work and coaching improvement are hard to accomplish on a consistent basis, but they’re critical to an organization’s operations and even its survival. And frankly, we owe it to our staff members to periodically assess their work … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – As inflation hits 40-year high, how is it changing employer strategy?
We certainly don’t need to watch the news to know that inflation is ravaging our country’s economy. The price of just about everything has risen and paychecks fall short. As managers, what can we do when our company’s budget is … Read Full Post
EEOC Makes COVID Policy Changes
In the last two years, COVID-19 has become a regular part of our lives, and perhaps, in order to re-establish some normalcy, we’ve accepted it and moved on. The EEOC, however, has re-evaluated its COVID-19 testing stance for employers and … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading: Problem People & Employee Discipline
“The reality is that most employers don’t like terminations.” This statement from a valuable whitepaper about “problem people” set the tone for some valuable suggestions when an employee just isn’t cutting it. To begin, the author – who is an … Read Full Post
PHE Extended but Experts Urge Planning for the End
After some speculation about the end on April 16th to the public health emergency enacted since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Health and Human Services just extended the PHE for another 90 days. However, experts have … Read Full Post
What We’re Reading – Top 7 Takeaways from EEOC’s COVID-19 & Vaccine Webinar for Employers
Fisher & Phillips has always been one of our top sources for employment law issues and we’re always happy to pass along their important insights. F&P’s summary of a recent the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) webinar regarding COVID-19 vaccines … Read Full Post
The Personnel File
Given that labor is generally the largest expense in any business – especially a service business like health care – personnel files are integral. These days, they can be paper-based, purely electronic or a combination of both. Personnel files can … Read Full Post
Three Reasons Why Relatives Are Not Your Ideal Employee Source
Over the years we’ve worked with countless start-up and small healthcare businesses and one common thread is usually the employment of family and friends. This is certainly understandable, especially when launching a new company, since funds are usually tight and … Read Full Post