As companies continue to find their footing in this slippery and unpredictable economy, you shouldn’t lose sight of the importance of solid HR practices in your company. Despite the desire to cut costs – and perhaps cut corners – solid HR is critical in protecting your company against lawsuits, and in weathering the economic storm. [...]
Earlier this month, a troubled employee fatally shot nine people (including himself) and wounded eight others when he arrived to the warehouse where he worked for the last two years. He was there to meet his manager for a disciplinary hearing. This tragic case is reflective of the startling statistic that homicide is the second [...]
In our last post we discussed vacation policies, from both the best-practices and legal standpoints. In today’s post we take a quick look at Sick Pay. What is required by law? Like vacation, sick pay is not required under Federal or State statutes. However, there are a number of localities passing measures requiring employers to [...]
As the tight economy continues with no foreseeable end in sight, employers are challenged to find ways to compensate, motivate and reward employees while adding minimal costs to their bottom line. As health insurance premiums continue to skyrocket, many employers are utilizing paid time off (PTO) as a recruiting tool to entice qualified applicants to [...]
For the second consecutive year, we are proud to announce that CPEhr was named one of the ‘Best Places to Work” by the Los Angeles Business Journal. Thousands of businesses participate in the annal “Best Places to Work” competition. Employees working for Los Angeles organizations were surveyed anonymously early this spring by the LA Business [...]
In 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt passed the Fair Labor Standards Act (commonly referred to as the “FLSA”). The purpose of the Depression era legislation was to protect the individual employee against abusive employers and to ensure a minimum standard of living to the American worker. FLSA guarantees workers a federal minimum wage and overtime [...]
