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Care for your people: When life stressors and work collide

Insperity

It’s easy to say leave your problems at the door, but sometimes common life stressors can affect employees’ personal lives so much that it creeps into their professional life. Make no mistake, balancing everyday issues like competing family schedules, managing commutes or juggling child care can be challenging. Loss of a family member.

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Common life stressors and their impact on the workplace

Insperity

It’s easy to say leave your problems at the door, but sometime common life stressors can affect employees’ personal lives so much that it creeps into their professional life. Make no mistake, balancing everyday issues like competing family schedules, managing commutes or juggling child care can be challenging.

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Employee terminations 101: What to say and do when it happens

Insperity

This may vary depending on a specific company and its organizational structure and culture, but generally the following parties should be present when an employee is terminated: The employee’s direct supervisor or manager A third-party witness (for example, the manager’s manager or a human resources [HR] professional).

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HR manual versus employee handbook: What’s the difference?

Insperity

What, exactly, is the difference between an employee handbook and a human resources (HR) manual – and does your organization need both? A human resources manual, on the other hand, is written for the HR department, leadership and managers. Human resources guides can make the employee handbook more usable.

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Employment laws to watch in 2019

Insperity

A patchwork of state and federal laws was eventually replaced when Congress set minimum age requirements with the Fair Labor Standards Act in 1938. Here are a few major employment law trends sweeping the country: Sick and family leave. In 2018, a new sick leave or family leave law seemed to appear every week.

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Employee Benefit: A Strategic Investment for Attracting and Retaining Top Talent

Empuls

Fortune magazine's "100 Best Companies to Work For" list provides compelling evidence.   The never-ending disappearing act: where does your paycheck go?  Happy employees are more productive, engaged, and less likely to leave for another job.     We've all heard it: money comes and goes.

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Southwest Airlines’ Julie Weber on What It Means To Create a Purpose-Driven Culture

HR Digest

A desire to act with courage, persevere and innovate; the ability to put others first, and a fun-LUVing attitude – these are the values that Southwest Airlines, the World’s Most Loved Airline, looks for in its employees and fosters through its talent management. I believe that Human Resources is my calling.