Job benefits: All the grass you can eat
Businesses all over the world are looking for ways to cut costs. Turin, Italy, has figured out that it’s cheaper to hire sheep rather than people to take care of lawn maintenance in city parks.
Compensation
What would you do? They think they're getting shortchanged after seeing Web salary 'estimates'
Periodically, we ask three HR managers how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: Employees are surfing the Web and finding their salaries are too far below the Web “estimates” for their jobs.
Skip these illegal interview questions
You need a lot of information before deciding to hire someone. But there are some things you just can’t ask in an interview.
What new grads want: deja vu all over again
The National Association of Colleges and Employers asked 19,000 new graduates what they were looking from their employers. The answers were surprising.
Employment contracts: When they're good, when they're not
It’s a rare business that needs an employment contract for every employee. But it can save you time, money and legal aggravation if you know which employees should be under contract and which shouldn’t.
Are they still exempt if they get an overtime bonus?
Our team of experts fields real-life, everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s question: Are they still exempt if they get a bonus for working overtime?
Update: Another state enacts guns-in-the-workplace law
The question, once again, is whether employees have the right to keep guns locked in their cars while at work. Another state has legislated the matter.
Study shows federal employee sick leave abuse
How many employees will call out sick the day after Memorial Day? A new study quantifies this type of sick leave abuse at one federal agency, and a U.S. Representative has an idea on how to limit it.
The legal traps that lurk in job descriptions
The good news about job descriptions is that they lay out exactly what the person should be doing. The bad news is that an error in a job description can turn into evidence in a courtroom.
