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July 15
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Workforce News of the Week:
Labor Department Report Illuminates FMLA Challenges: While the report
says FMLA works well for leaves related to childbirth, adoption and acute
illnesses in families, employers have serious difficulties managing intermittent
leave and definitions of what constitutes a serious health condition.
Starbucks Awards HRO Deal to Convergys:
Analysts say Convergys won the deal because, unlike other HRO providers,
it’s willing to take on just some of the HR processes with the hopes of
adding on to the deal later.
Separate Paths for H-1B Policy, Verification?:
In the end, neither verification nor H-1B issues were formally debated. But an amendment that would have rewritten the verification part of the Senate legislation was called a ‘deal breaker.’.
HRO Competitors Join Forces to Craft Industry Standards:
The Human Resources Outsourcing Association, a consortium of about 300 HRO providers, advisors and buyers, has established a committee to set industry standards for the market.
Florida Allows Leave in Domestic Violence Cases
Automatic Retirement Savings Deductions Gain Broad Support
Harkin Bill Would Provide Incentives for Wellness Programs
At Least Say Thank You
Stressed-Out Employees Burning Up EAP Hotlines
Wellness Plans in Need of Checkup
The HR profession
Tomorrow’s human resources chiefs may not even work in HR today. Many employers are looking outside the function for up-and-comers and giving them experience throughout the organization—and across the globe—to prepare them for the ever-more strategic role.
Read more about how HR executives are playing new
roles in major corporations. >>>
Harassment at work
Bullying is blamed for unnecessarily creating
high costs of turnover, insurance claims and thwarted productivity. And
anti-bullying bills keep cropping up in state legislatures. But employer
attorneys say the way to deal with bullies at work is through existing harassment
policies and statutes, not by enacting new laws.
Free benchmark report
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in our ongoing benchmarking research aimed at assessing your organization's
effectiveness in developing talent (both learning and performance management),
training talent and counseling talent. Through this open standards research,
we provide you with the analysis needed to make improvements based on the
practices of top-performing organizations. The data being collected is vital
for assessing the management of processes such as employee orientation and
deployment, employee performance, employee relations, and the development
and training of employees.
Discussion
Posted in the General Forum:
Blog: The Business of Management The Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA, is both misunderstood and misinterpreted by nurses and other health care professionals. The result is that family and friends of patients frequently can’t get basic information they need and are stymied by a system that seems bent on emphasizing secrecy and confidentiality at all costs.
Read more of the Business of Management blog.
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Workplace violence
While some corporations have
addressed potential workplace violence with adequate preventive policies,
others have ignored the training needed for human resources professionals
and other managers to identify the early warning signs of a potentially
dangerous employee.
Read more about preventing workplace violence.
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