Tag Archives: safety

4 Ways to Ease Your HR Burden

Running your own business is not easy and more often than not you’ll feel like you’re being pulled in all kinds of directions and asked to wear more hats than you ever dreamed of. There is a solution – outsourcing employee benefit management services to a Professional Employer Organization (PEO) that can help with the less […]

3 Things HR Needs to Know for Sexual Harassment Training

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, a number of states – including New Jersey, New York, and California – have ushered in laws that seek to not only mandate sexual harassment training, but have also put rules in place for what the training must include, who is to be trained and how long the […]

Workplace Hazards and Safety Impact Bottom Line

When it comes to safety, sometimes it just feels like “just one more thing to worry about and do,” and thus gets pushed to the bottom of the to-do list, where it languishes until someone falls off that ladder/tips over a filing cabinet/takes a nasty fall and you enter into crisis mode. Disabling workplace injuries […]

Conquer that Mountain of Paperwork with an HR Expert

One of the main chores any small business owner faces is the mountain of paperwork that goes with human resources functions. From payroll and compliance reporting, the benefits selection process, timekeeping and workplace safety. We are adding a section to our A-Z guide about HR forms, including what they are, why they are important, and why […]

HR Worry: Workplace Bullying in the Workplace

When we think of bullying, we typically think of school children and teens with endless articles written about the impact on the nation’s youth, not about human resources and professional business people. Yet, 19 percent of Americans endured “abusive conduct” in the workplace, with nearly one in 10 reporting that they have been bullied in […]

How to Manage an Employee with a Mental Health Issue

Nearly 45 million adults in the United States suffered from a mental health issue in 2016. This represents about one in five adults, according to the latest data from the National Institute of Mental Health. However, less than half (19.1 million) received mental health treatment in the same year, suggesting that some of those who […]

The Opioid Crisis and its Impact on Your Business

Employee health and medication use are grey, tricky areas for employers. Employee medical conditions are protected under health care privacy laws, but the effects of their illness, particularly side effects of their medications, are a concern for your business and liability. One of the biggest concerns is the ongoing opioid epidemic that is gripping the […]