Fri.Oct 08, 2021

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10 Math-Focused Jobs for Those Who Love Crunching Numbers

Take It Personel-ly

Math skills are in high demand and only set to increase in a wide range of American professions. The BLS predicts math employment will grow by almost 30 percent between now and 2030–a rate that’s much quicker than any other professional skill set. Of course, math is used in almost every job, but some professions demand a […].

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The ADA’s Impact on Returning to the Office

BerniePortal

With companies becoming more vaccinated, workplaces look to be gearing up to return to the office soon. With this in mind, employers need to make sure their employees are prepared to return. Many employees may be in need of assistance or accommodations as they make the transition back into an office. Companies will need to begin familiarizing themselves with the ADA's accommodation regulations in order to ensure compliance.

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Are You Worried about the Quality of Your Benefits Offerings Post-COVID?

CorpStrat

During the pandemic shutdown, many employers had to get creative with how they delivered benefits. For the first time ever companies had fully remote teams, made work/life balance top priority, and ensured ample tele-health and mental health resources were available to their teams. As we return to the office, employees are now expecting these benefits and perks and feel more empowered than ever to ask for them.

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What is an association health plan (AHP)?

PeopleKeep

As a small business owner, deciding what health insurance plan is the best for your business is key to recruiting and retaining employees. One option is an association health plan (AHP), which is a type of health insurance that’s customized for people with a “commonality of interest,” meaning plan members must share the same industry or profession. But what does that really mean for small employers?

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The Ultimate Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Is Overtime Calculated Daily or Weekly?

BerniePortal

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) protects non-exempt workers by requiring employers to pay these employees a higher wage rate for the hours they work over 40 hours in a workweek. However, some states have laws that calculate overtime on a daily basis. These laws and regulations are implemented in order to protect workers from being wrongfully taken advantage of when scheduling their working hours.

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Moving Into the Future: Modern Tools Real Estate Agents Use to Sell Your House

Take It Personel-ly

Real estate companies have moved into the 21st century and are using modern tools to sell homes. During the pandemic, many of these were highlighted as it became necessary to use online methods to sell homes. Today, real estate agents use a mixture of modern tools along with face-to-face meetings and open houses. The Role […].

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Is the future of payroll real-time payments?

LACE Partners

In a recent HR on the Offensive podcast we spoke to Ian Wheeler from Income Group about this emerging technology, the impact it is having on the payroll landscape and what the future might hold. . Real-time payments vs faster payments – what are they? . The term ‘faster payments’ is a generic industry term that has been used since mid-2008, introduced by clearing banks to describe the reduction in the transaction time from one bank to another – it is now only a matter of seconds.

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OSHA cites insurance agency for exposing workers to coronavirus

Workers' Compensation

A federal workplace health investigation found that an auto insurance company ignored coronavirus safety requirements and allowed others displaying symptoms to work at the exact Denver location where an employee died with COVID-19. In response to a complaint of unsafe working conditions and the employee’s death, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration initiated an investigation on April 21, 2021, and found Fred Loya Insurance Agency Inc. did not safely distan

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How to deal with difficult coworkers

Business Management Daily

Everyone has to deal with difficult coworkers — even your favorite team members can sometimes be a bit hard to work with. While you might not always be able to take a difficult coworker and make them your best friend, you can take actions to improve the relationship or at least to make the relationship more tolerable. In this BusinessManagementDaily.com article, we cover: Common types of difficult coworkers and how to deal with them.

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Want To Enhance Your Total Rewards To Achieve Organizational Success? Start Here.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your employee value proposition? Gallagher Better Works SM Insights has got you covered! Dive into the latest magazine issue and discover how flexibility, equity, recognition and strategically applied resources can improve your total rewards package. Download the PDF to learn more about: Building retirement benefits for a global and mobile workforce Promoting employee and organizational growth through succession planning Empowering women in leadership through

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California Gov. Newsom signs Silenced No More Act which bars restrictive NDAs in tech companies

HR Digest

California governor Gavin Newsom signed a historic bill on Thursday night – one of the most comprehensive protections in the country for workers who speak out about harassment and discrimination even if they’ve signed a non-disclosure agreement. The bill, known as the “Silenced No More Act” is authored by state senator Connie Levya (D-Chino) and is being celebrated as a massive win for tech workers who championed the proposal.

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COBRA Election and Payment Periods: Does One Year of “Tolling” Really Mean One Year?

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

Remember the DOL/Treasury relief that tolled the COBRA election and payment deadlines for up to one year due to the COVID-19 pandemic (referred to below as “Tolling Relief”)? If you have been wondering whether, under that relief, a qualified beneficiary may wait one year to elect COBRA and then wait another year to make their initial premium payment (assuming the COVID-19 “outbreak period” has not ended sooner), the IRS has finally answered your question.

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New Ways to Self-Correct Overpayments Under EPCRS

Snell & Wilmer Benefits

On July 16, 2021, IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2021-30 to update the Employee Plans Compliance Resolutions System (the “EPCRS”). The update in part expands the opportunities for plan sponsors to self-correct failures under the EPCRS by: (1) extending the self-correction period from two to three years; (2) expanding the ability for plan sponsors to correct operational failures using plan amendments; (3) extending the safe harbor correction method for certain elective deferral failures; and (4) ex