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The One HR Initiative to Improve Retention, Engagement, and Productivity

Posted May 1, 2019 by Chelsea Jensen, MBA, SHRM-SCP, Human Resource Services

Organizations spend lots of time, effort, and money recruiting and hiring new employees. Employee attraction, recruitment, hiring, and onboarding, coupled with experiences that take place...

The Cost of Abrasive Personalities

Posted May 1, 2019 by Debbie Stone, SPHR, SHRM-SCP

We’ve all worked with an office jerk. They interrupt others in meetings, make snide comments in the break room, and order others around even if...

Dynamics of Telecommuting

Posted May 1, 2019 by Bev Sinclair, Human Resource Services Consultant, MBA, SPHR-CA

The Net was a 1995 movie starring Sandra Bullock as a woman working out of her home in Los Angeles for a company located in...

Good News for Employer Retirement Plans

Posted May 1, 2019 by Peggy Hoyt-Hoch, Esq., Managing Attorney, ERISA and Benefits Consulting

The IRS issued new rules effective April 29, 2019. Revenue Procedure 2019-19 expands the use of the agency’s amnesty-type programs for employer plan sponsors. Employers...

Tenth Circuit: County Employee’s Testimony Not Protected by First Amendment

Posted May 1, 2019 by Lorrie Ray, Esq., SPHR, Director of Membership Development

The First Amendment protects a government employee’s speech made as a citizen on a matter of public concern if the employee’s right to speak outweighs...

Economic Perspective

Posted May 1, 2019 by Sue Wolf

Employers Council has prepared this Economic Perspective summary to assist the decision-makers of member organizations. The economic data contained in these charts represent a summary...

Summer is the Kick-Off of Industry Surveys Look for the following survey questionnaires in the coming months: Financial Services/Trust Compensation Housing Authority/Property Management Compensation Senior Services...

Recruiting Strategies that Work

Posted April 1, 2019 by Valorie Waldon, B.A., SPHR, SHRM-SCP Human Resource Services Consultant

All over the country, organizations are struggling to find the talent that they want and need. According to the 2018 Jobvite Recruiting Benchmark Report, record unemployment,...

Ball Corporation Leads the Way in Diversity and Inclusion

Posted April 1, 2019 by Bev Sinclair, Human Resource Services Consultant, MBA, SPHR-CA

Forbes has named Ball Corporation the number-one company for Diversity and Inclusion in its annual ranking of the best employers for diversity. I spoke with Ball Corporation’s Charles Johnson,...