Know More About The Employment Laws
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If you are an employer with 1 or more employees, you might need to brush up on your local and national employment laws. Legal employment laws are complicated, strict and change often. Employment laws protect the employee most of the time. Hardly ever is the Employer given the benefit of the doubt [...]
Learn About the Benefits an Employee Assistance Program Can Offer
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These programs are usually prepaid by the employer for confidential use by all employees, and in many cases the plan includes employee family members. In most cases, a program would be offered in addition to health care benefits provided to employees. The employee assistance program addresses problems with health or concerns outside of [...]
Protect Your Company: Employee Background Checks
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There are a lot of things that employers need to keep in mind when hiring new employees. They need to look over resumes, schedule interviews, check references, and discuss salaries. Most of the information provided to employers by job applicants is accepted on good faith. Bosses usually assume that an applicant has a degree from [...]
FRCA: Legal Limitations On Background Checks
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Employee background checks are a vital tool to help employers decide who will represent their business. They can help determine if a candidate has told the truth about his job history, criminal record, and other important facts. However, there are laws in place that govern how background checks may be conducted and what kind of [...]
The ABCs Of Child Care Background Checks
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Children are our most precious resource; at one time or another, all parents must leave their charges in someone else’s hands. There are many child care options to choose from, from nannies to an in-home facility, to a professionally run day care center with many employees.
Everyone has seen the “horror stories” on the news [...]
Bitten By The Staff Retention Bug
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It has been widely acknowledged off late, that staff retention in the UK has become an area of serious purview and discussion in the economic and business circles. It is indeed becoming ever more apparent that we, as individuals, are never a part of some loose knit society of a bygone era, but standing on [...]
Does The UK Have The Worst Record For Staff Absenteeism?
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Staff absenteeism among the UK work force is the scourge of our times.
We all tend to believe that is our moral right to go on leave if the situation so demands. This is to a great extent true if one were to consider human values among employees and their rights on and off their duty [...]
Why Employee Assistance Programs Work
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While many enterprises are concerned about the costs of such programs, they may not be aware that studies show an actual cost savings from creating a working employee assistance program.
One major positive result of an employee assistance program is a competitive advantage in the marketplace. A workforce that is enduring chronic stress [...]
How to Prevent Absenteeism in Your Enterprise
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The cost for UK industry is staggering 11.5 billion was paid in wages to absent employees, or paid for temporary staff or overtime for absent employees, in 2002.
There are many ways of preventing absenteeism. Of the forty million days each year lost to absenteeism, over thirteen million are caused by common mental health issues, [...]
Employee Assistance Programs - The Truth
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Many people who are, in ordinary circumstances, excellent workers may encounter a period in their lives where they struggle with the responsibilities of their work and their outside lives.
Without assistance, such employees may end up being terminated or leaving the job voluntarily, costing the enterprise in recruiting, hiring, and training costs. Any [...]