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2 July 2012 at 18 : 07 PM
How the Affordable Care Act Will Affect Your Company
The Littler Mendelson law firm released an overview of the Supreme Court's monumental ruling on the Affordable Care Act last Thursday. An excerpt from the publication is below, explaining how employers will need to alter the plans they offer employees: Plans must provide dependent coverage for children up to age 26 (effective in 2011; until 2014, ...
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20 March 2012 at 16 : 51 PM
Why Wage & Hour Violations Could Land You in Jail
When it comes to wage and hour violations, the stakes are rising higher than ever. In three recent court cases, the government has cracked down on company owners, imposing stiff fines and even jail time for violators. Malcom et al. v. Franklin Drywall For example, in Minnesota, Phillip Franklin, the president of a sheetrock company, was sentenced ...
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27 February 2012 at 20 : 27 PM
What’s Trending in HR?
The following is a short summary of this Houston Business Journal article from John W. Allen. Here’s what HR experts are talking about in 2012: • How to cope with an HR crisis. Case in point: the scandal at PennState. HR must act quickly to address situations where an employee’s misconduct threatens the reputation of the company. There ...
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6 February 2012 at 09 : 00 AM
Houston Companies Pay the Price for Illegal Employees
When US immigration officials audited Advanced Containment Systems Inc, last year, it discovered that 44% of the company's workforce comprised of illegal immigrants. They found ID cards supposedly issued by the "Texas Department of Safety", which had misspelled words like "identification" and "department". One even said "novelty item" on the back. The ...
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30 January 2012 at 17 : 07 PM
Big Picture Benefits
As with any new year, 2012 has brought the expected trappings: Times Square ball drop, ad nauseum repetition of weight loss commercials, and of course… the lists. For most people, I’m referring to lists like “Top Ten Stocks to Watch in 2012” or perhaps “Top 50 Brangelina Breakups”. However, HR nerds like me have rung in 2012 with a ...
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9 January 2012 at 16 : 04 PM
Unusual Ways to Spot Exceptional Talent
A pristine resume doesn’t always translate into amazing performance on the job. Author George Anders has developed some unusual strategies for spotting your next top performer. Do They Bounce Back Quickly? In our results and reputation-driven culture, there is often the impulse to appear invincible. But people who have overcome obstacles and ...
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12 December 2011 at 16 : 51 PM
Strategies to Strengthen Your HR Infrastructure: Week 3
Continuing Blog Series from G&A Partners: 5 Strategies to Strengthen your HR infrastructure. In this five week series, we are analyzing the different ways in which you can strengthen the human resources organization of your organization. Each week, this blog is discussing one strategy in-depth. Previous posts can be found HERE. Strategy #3: ...
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26 September 2011 at 21 : 25 PM
$3 Million Settlement in 3M Age Discrimination Lawsuit
3M, the company that made Post-It Notes famous, has recently settled a discrimination case with the EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) for three million dollars. The company agreed to pay the sum to 290 employees who claimed they were victims of age discrimination from 2003-2006, when 3M laid off hundreds of employees older than age ...
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13 September 2011 at 19 : 47 PM
How the “Million Dollar Employee” Demonstrates G&A Partners’ Value Proposition
For someone unfamiliar with how a PEO works (or what PEO even stands for), understanding the concept at first can be confusing. G&A Partners recently introduced a new spokesman for the company that makes it easier for others to quickly grasp what a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) is all about. The “Million Dollar Employee” has over 15 ...
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1 August 2011 at 16 : 33 PM
Are Americans Working Themselves to Death?
With the current state of the US economy, it is no surprise that most discussion about jobs is related to unemployment; how many people don’t have jobs, how many people want jobs, and how those people can find jobs.But how has the downturn in the economy affected the 90% of Americans who are employed? Unfortunately, these people often expected to do the ...
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