Employers intuitively understand the consequences of an unsafe workplace. Our customers tell us there’s a lot at stake: employee injury or fatality, decreased productivity, disappointed customers, loss of profits, and loss of business top a long list.
Allowing your employees to schedule and receive their training online, from basic to ultra-specific needs, can reduce administrative time, increase timely attendance, and allow instructors visibility into their schedules.
Organizations that care about their employees care about safety and will go to great lengths to communicate the importance of working safely. Regular safety meetings, creative safety contests, safety Web sites, sharing lessons learned—safety communicators tend to use a variety of methods to distribute procedures and critical safety information to help employees plan and perform work.
HR practitioners must actively seek key areas for improvement for themselves, their roles, and the company, taking action to defend their role where possible.
What makes the best in HR really the best? Human resources is a complex,multifaceted field that requires professionals to have the ability to juggle priorities and excel at a number of tasks, from the sometimes tedious to the often strategic.
"Workers who fear retaliation are far less likely to report discrimination. Congress understood as much when it passed laws prohibiting employment discrimination based on race and age," said Steven R. Shapiro, the ACLU's national legal director.
A study published May 25 "suggests a new target for the development of medications to decrease the risk of relapse in abstinent cocaine abusers," says NIDA Director Dr. Nora Volkow.
"The idea that customers produce lifetime value to a company has been studied intensively over the past few years. The potential value of employees to their employers, however, is just now being quantified," says IMA Executive Director Karen Renk, CAE.
U.S. Rep. Lynn Woolsey, the California Democrat who says the Labor Department should have cracked down on the practice, is a co-sponsor of the bill, which was filed May 21.
Popular amenity options found by the new study, based on a survey of 1,032 facility professionals from across North America, include exercise parks, cot rooms, and nursing/lactation areas.
Comparing industries, sales workers (50 percent) lead the industries surveyed in the number of workers planning to check in while away on vacation, followed by 37 percent of both financial services workers and IT workers.
According to EEOC, the department provided lesser benefits to female corrections officers who gave birth while on worker's compensation leave.
President Bush signed H.R. 493 Wednesday in a ceremony in which he noted that Sen. Ted Kennedy, one of the bill's major supporters, had gone home from the hospital.
"A woman who spends years in medical school emerges to take her place alongside a panoply of male physicians--who, on average, make 38 percent more than she does. Female attorneys fare better--they make 30 percent less than their male counterparts," writes Tula Connell on the federation's blog.
The California congressman who chairs the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said DoD's system for awarding comp insurance contracts has cost taxpayers millions.
Eighteen women, including teens, were abused, EEOC said.
Fewer than 4 percent of the nation's firefighters are women, and more than half of paid fire departments have never hired a female firefighter, a new report states.
Three-fifths of mutual-fund owning households invest in funds through an employer-based retirement plan such as a 401(k), and 57 percent of the households purchased their first fund through an employer-sponsored retirement plan, according to the 2008 Investment Company Fact Book.