Neelie from AIHR: Can you write an article for us?Me: Sure. Any topics?Neelie: Perhaps how in the ^*!&#$ HR is supposed to prepare for 2021? Ahh, this is such a good question. HR people have to plan – we have cyclical things we plan for. We know that
The Center for Disease Control reported that, as of late June, 40 percent of adults were struggling with mental health or substance abuse. Forty percent. Chances are a good number of your employees are in that 40 percent, and you may well be also. The pandemic and the damage caused
I have a problem with employees calling in to say they are not coming into work once they’ve reached 40 hours. We have a lot of overtime available, so it’s easy to have worked 40 hours by Thursday. People then call to say they are not coming in
You know how companies are responding to COVID-19 in your area, but this is a pandemic that affected the entire world. Well, apparently, there are island nations (like Tonga, Samoa, and the Pitcairn Islands) that have escaped the virus. But, the rest of the world had to battle this.
Just yesterday, I received an email nudging me gently to do something I could have sworn I had already done. I hadn’t. So, what made me think I had done it? It turns out that we can mistake an intention for an action. I meant to respond to that
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I’ve been out on FMLA helping my elderly parents. Dad had Covid. I recently returned to work. One day last week and 1 day this week. My employer was moving me to another unit, which I haven’t worked on in years. My permanent spot was a dementia unit.
Employment attorney Jeff Nowak works in Chicago–or, at least he did until the coronavirus hit. Now he works out of his suburban home. While his LinkedIn profile still says Chicago–since that’s where his office is located–LinkedIn recently asked him to change his location to the site of his suburban home office. At the
I have employees in three different school districts, and each district has different rules for attendance. Because of COVID-19, some of my employees have kids doing 100% remote learning, some are doing hybrid learning and the last school district lets employees choose. We have 200 employees, so we’re
October 1 might seem like a silly time to ask for more money. Lots of company’s do year end performance appraisals and year end raises, so it seems a bit early. It’s not. Here’s why. Budgets are made in advance. If your company does a year end raises,
