People who are right out of school need a different type of orientation than someone who’s walking in the door with 10 years’ experience elsewhere. Specifically, the rookies need help with three major employment issues.

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Tags: 401(k), health insurance, medicare, orientation, retirement, social security, taxes, w-4

When someone gets promoted into management and turns out to be a nightmare, HR often asks, “Why didn’t we see this coming?” All the signs probably were there, but maybe no one was looking for them.

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Tags: candidates, management

You can twist yourself in knots trying to dodge a lawsuit, but it really comes down to the avoiding the Big Six Mistakes.

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Tags: at will, eeoc, equal employment opportunity commission, investigations, Moody & Warner, performance

With budgets getting tighter and tighter, you’ll probably need to prove that training to prevent sexual harassment actually works. Some numbers that tie training to complaints could help.

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Tags: California, eeoc, Sexual harrassment, Training, washington

In most instances, if nonexempt employees take training that pushes them over 40 hours a week, your company is on the hook for overtime pay - with one exception.

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Tags: department of labor, dol, fair labor standards act, ged, overtime

Periodically, we ask three HR managers how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: a boss who says anti-discrimination training is great for all supervisors, but won’t participate in the training himself.

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Tags: discrimination, lawsuits, Training

A top business institute asked 779 executives what they wanted from an HR manager. And they had answers. Boy, did they have answers.

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Tags: hr technology, human capital institute, leadership, performance

The U.S. has some 1,500 franchise companies operating about 320,000 outlets. If you’re not one of them, how do you compete with them for entry-level talent?

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Tags: applicants, franchise, summer, Training, turnover

HR exec Susan Gary was spending money on training for employees but not getting the results she wanted – until she changed her company’s approach  (part of an ongoing series).

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Tags: error rates, Money, Training

HR manager Marilyn Weixel found that no matter how much training she did for her new managers, they still made crucial mistakes in key tasks, such as giving performance appraisals or interviewing candidates. Here’s how she fixed the problem.

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Tags: Managers, supervisor, Training