Becoming complacent with the small HR tasks can leave your businesses vulnerable to state and federal penalties. Here is a list of ways to help you be pro-active to keeping your business HR complaint. 1. Check your poster wall Every employer is required to have a poster titled “Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law” that … Read more
Personal information about employees must be protected in a locked filing cabinet, but the security doesn’t stop there. Housing different information in different types of employee files will protect against managers, supervisors, or other authorized staff members accidentally gaining access to sensitive information. Below are the 6 types of files you should keep and a … Read more
Many small businesses sense a need to have an employee handbook, but for various reasons haven’t made it a priority to put one in place. Perhaps you own or help run one of these small businesses. To be honest, with the demands on most small businesses, both in terms of time and money, it is … Read more
The emotional effect of an employee’s departure may make it easy to overlook the many details that must be attended to, so it makes sense to create a checklist in advance. With this in mind, perhaps the first item to place on an employee departure checklist list is: if you don’t already have a checklist, … Read more
How many businesses do you know that say they have an open-door policy when it comes to listening to employees? How many of those businesses actually have an open door that employees feel comfortable walking through to speak their minds? Not many, right? That is an example of a company culture that can actually sap … Read more
Companies can run afoul of Title VII if they discriminate based on sex or religion.
On December 15, 2021, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced another four-month extension until April 30, 2022, of the policy allowing remote or virtual verification of the documentation required for a Form I-9 when a workforce is working remotely. It is unlikely that this extension will be … Read more
The U.S. Department of Justice has increased a variety of immigration-related fines/penalties, effective December 13, 2021. These increases were pursuant to the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 2015. Since that time, penalties have been adjusted yearly based on the rate of inflation, which for last year was 1.01182 percent. Below are the offenses … Read more
The Office of the Chief Administrative Hearing Officer (OCAHO) recently issued three decisions, United States v. Maverick Construction LLC, 15 OCAHO no. 1405 (Dec. 16, 2021), United States v. Bazan’s Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Taco Ole Mission, 15 OCAHO no. 1408 (Dec. 20, 2021), and United States v. Bazan’s Enterprises, Inc., d/b/a Taco Ole Edinburg, 15 … Read more
You have a legitimate reason to worry about the on-the-job damage that has left you in suffering. Lenders are calling at all hours of the day. Because of your injury, you may not be able to return to your previous job. Even if you do, how can you pay all of your expenses? Unfortunately, many … Read more