This time of the year can be especially stressful for the HR Professional. Whether it is year-end craziness, finishing touches on a project that goes live on January 1st, wrapping up benefits open enrollment or preparing payroll data for that [...]
You know the drill—the open enrollment package arrives, you go online to sign up for benefits and your new insurance card arrives few weeks later. Seems simple right? A wave of the magical HR wand and everything is done. Sorry [...]
A little bit of this and a lot of that. Sound familiar? If so, you are probably a Human Resources Generalist or have been one in the past. Negotiating the company’s medical insurance renewal in the morning and then darting [...]
Human Resources can be a lonely post; especially in smaller organizations where the HR department may be made up of one or two people. We're either formally or informally supposed to keep employees at a healthy distance because we help our [...]
Employers have to readjust and comply with more changes than ever. On top of the multitude of employment law changes, the continued economic stresses and now employers are scrambling to remain or become compliant to the endless requirements set forth [...]
Right now, especially due to the healthcare reform, the national labor relations intrusion into non-union organizations and the continuation of economic struggles, employers need to focus more on improving their employee’s morale. For the past several years, many employers have [...]
It’s 8:00 a.m. on Wednesday morning and time for the meeting you’ve been dreading all week. Yes, on today’s meeting agenda you spot a topic called “Payroll Reporting Structure.” Ughh, yes—the never-ending debate on whether payroll should be under HR [...]
If you're like many HR professionals you may have, at one time or another, found yourself questioning the job title of a position that was being created or one that already existed. How do companies find themselves in these situations [...]
There's a reason that well over half of all small businesses and nearly all larger ones use a human resource information system (HRIS) of some kind. Few things can help benefit your organization quite like a HRIS. While most smaller organizations rely [...]
