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Can an Employer Make Employees Use Vacation Hours?
Q: Can an employer legally make their employees use their accumulated vacation hours? A: Yes. An employer can tell an employee that they need to take time off. However, that rarely bodes well for the morale of the employee if they don’t want to take the time off. Some...
Create an Engaging Workplace to Stand Out From the Rest
Most employees are not engaged at work—70% according to Gallup. This is no new trend. The combined number of unengaged and actively disengaged employees remains high from year to year. Poor engagement results in less productivity, less creativity, higher absenteeism,...
Payroll Check Theft and How to Guard Against it
Payroll check theft is on the rise. In June of 2017, two bookkeepers and nine of their family and friends were charged with stealing nearly $1 million from Zirkle Fruit Company in Washington State, after a payroll scheme that lasted a year. Also last June, a Louisiana...
