3 P’s of Performance: P is for Employee Participation
The 3 P’s of Performance These next three postings, we at executive advantage want to share some ideas of how a business owner might enhance the performance of his/her organization. Now, the traditional way of doing that is to throw money at the situation, but, as a rule, money doesn’t improve performance. Money merely reduces employee dissatisfaction with the working conditions, and may end up creating a “what have you done for me lately” mentality. First P – Participation Some benefits of employee participation include: Helps...
read moreHR. 1406 The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013
One of the newer bills before the U.S. House of Representatives is HR. 1406, The Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013. This site below has links to the bill in its entirety as well as commentary of organizations (by default) are for it: http://edworkforce.house.gov/yourtime/ Those opposed to the bill appear to be exclusively viewing all employers as large corporations with inherently greater flexible staffing capabilities. executive advantage works with small to medium sized employers who need all the leverage they can get both to...
read moreNew I-9 Forms & Audits
It’s an interesting world we live in. The more employer and labor laws, the more regulations, the more HR work in your inbox. Let me add one more item to it. 1. If you’ve not done so already, download the newest I-9 form. (It’ll have an expiration date of 2016 in the upper right corner). 2. Make certain you are filling it out completely! I-9 audits are UP from a handful in 2004 to over 3000 in 2012 due to the changed focus of Obama administration from going after the illegal workers to those going after those hiring...
read moreObamaCare 101: Summary of Benefits and Coverage
As part of the new health care regulations (otherwise known as ObamaCare), all employers are required to provide Summary of Benefits and Coverage (SBC) documents to each employee in their organizations, whether or not the employer covers the cost, or the employee does. Furthermore the document must be in simple understandable language, 4 pages or less in specified font, and it must be accompanied by a Universal Glossary. There are two ways of handling this. 1) Request the SBC from your insurance provider. While insurance companies providing...
read moreADA and Reasonable Accomodation
Our executive advantage business family is important to us and we always want to share information that may prove troublesome. Laws like the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008 are always changing. In the original act much of the emphasis was placed on the employer to analyze the situation and make a determination of whether the individual actually had a covered disability or not. Business owners and HR Managers were left with the responsibility of making decisions they were probably not qualified to make. Questions like...
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