Invest in Your Employees Through Coaching

Invest in Your Employees Through Coaching

The performance of your company is directly tied to the performance of your employees, so one of the best ways to develop your company is to develop the people who work for you. While you can motivate your employees by rewarding success and disciplining failure, these...
The Pros and Cons of PTO

The Pros and Cons of PTO

These days, many of us are just an email, text, or click away from work. So it’s more important than ever to make sure you and your employees are getting time away to recharge. Increasingly, that’s coming in the form of PTO or Paid Time Off, an integrated system that...
Best Practices for Classifying Employees

Best Practices for Classifying Employees

Did you know that just because you are paying an employee on a salary basis, it does not immediately make that employee ineligible for overtime? The crucial distinction is whether the employee is exempt or non-exempt from wage regulations that cover overtime. The...
Making a New Employee Feel Welcome

Making a New Employee Feel Welcome

Congratulations!  The hard part is over—you’ve finally hired someone. You now have a new “employee.”  That means you need to give the person the tools to be the best worker he or she can be, and the process of making a new employee feel welcome starts on Day One....
New Test for Unpaid Interns from the DOL

New Test for Unpaid Interns from the DOL

Last Friday the Department of Labor (DOL) adopted a new test for unpaid interns. Employers should use this test—called the primary beneficiary test—when determining if a worker can be properly classified as an unpaid intern or if they need to be classified as an...
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