April, 2021

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What Does the COVID-19 Vaccine Mean For Your Skilled Nursing Facility?

Hireology

At the time of this publication, the vaccine has not been mandated by the federal government , but that could become a requirement for any agencies that receive Medicare or Medicaid funding. It’s worth noting that an employer, or state or local government could create a mandate based upon specific societal needs for safety. For the time being, however, there’s no explicit requirement mandating the vaccine at the highest levels of government. .

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Organizations: Use Online Forms to Capture Valuable Data

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by JotForm , a full-featured online form builder that makes it easy to create forms and collect data. They’ve just launched a new product called JotForm Approvals that automates approval processes with ease , something every HR department loves to hear. Enjoy the article!). One of the keys to good decision making is having the right data and information.

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7 Healthy Habits To Achieve More Every Day

Take It Personel-ly

Lifestyle is all about the daily habits that contribute to your mental as well as physical health. If you’re leading a sedentary lifestyle, then it’s about time that you consider the healthy ways of living. You can transform your life through small changes in the daily routine. Also, try to incorporate a morning routine that […].

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5 Countries with the Best Employment Laws

Global People Strategist

Around the world, workers are given different rights. These range from the right to organize protests and participate in trade unions, to working in safe conditions and overtime pay. This article explores 5 countries that have the best employment laws from the perspective of the employee with top global rankings in terms of rights of workers, based on their labor traditions and violation of labor rights. 1.

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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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Manage up to your boss – your team will thank you for it

Insperity

Are you making the effort to manage up at work? No? Not sure what that means? We all have external and internal customers at work. Your external customers are, of course: Your company’s actual customers Vendors Partners Government Media. These are valuable relationships that require care and maintenance on your part to be successful at your job and represent your company well.

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Hire Your Best (Remote) Team

Hireology

COVID-19 has made remote work inevitable for a great portion of the population. But after the pandemic comes to an end, the flexibility associated with working remotely will likely stick around, making remote work desirable to a larger amount of employees. . Hiring remote employees doesn’t only benefit your staff — it also gives you access to the best talent without setting limitations on location.

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Workplace Vaccine Strategy for COVID-19

Best Money Moves

Workplace Vaccine Strategy for COVID-19. As COVID-19 vaccines become more widely available to Americans, workforces must decide how to handle vaccine strategies among their employees. As COVID-19 vaccines become more available, more and more employers are evaluating their role in the immunization program. Some organizations are incentivizing vaccinations, others are wrestling with vaccination mandates and still others are taking a more laissez faire approach.

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4 Quick Organization Tips When Your Office Is a Mess

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A disorganized office can lead to reduced productivity and low employee morale. That’s why it’s important to spend the time and money required to get your office perfectly organized. When considering the best way to keep your office organized, you have plenty of options available. To get well on the way toward great organization, here […].

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Important deadlines for health reimbursement arrangements

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When employers first set up a health reimbursement arrangement (HRA), they often wonder if there’s a required timeframe for reimbursing their employees’ health expenses. Likewise, employees want to know how long they have before they need to submit their health expenses for approval. As a rule of thumb, reimbursement deadlines are defined by the HRA plan documents you draft when you first set up the benefit.

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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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How will COVID-19 change the workplace permanently?

Insperity

There’s a light at the end of the tunnel – COVID-19 vaccinations are ramping up and the pandemic may be over in the foreseeable future. Undoubtedly, many aspects of how we traditionally carry out work had to change because of the risks of virus transmission. But the question remains, how will COVID-19 change the workplace for the long haul? Were the changes a temporary abnormal?

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How to resolve conflicts in office

HR Digest

All collaborative exercises need some rules to co-exist and resolve disputes. If there were no referees for games and no redressal forums, then life would undoubtedly get chaotic. The same applies to work-based conflict. Some rules and regulations need to be in place and avenues of redressal available for smooth functioning. Some form of disagreement will inevitably occur when several people collaborate on a project or work together as team members.

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Recruitment Strategies to Retain Your Team

Hireology

Retention issues are industry-agnostic, but the healthcare industry specifically deals with a great deal of turnover. Unfortunately the stakes are much higher than other professions, as your patient care hinges on the quality and longevity of your hires, so keeping your team around matters a lot. . In order to combat turnover, you have to look at all areas of your organization and see what’s causing individuals to jump ship.

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How to start the succession planning conversation you need to have

Business Management Daily

Succession planning is a critical element to ensuring your organization’s longevity, but it’s the conversation none of us want to have. Whether we don’t know how to start the discussion, or what to do with the list of successors once we do, it can be easy to delay having, or not have at all. However, succession management is a key piece of talent management.

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How to Build the Ideal HR Team

HR doesn’t exist in a vacuum. This work impacts everyone: from the C-Suite to your newest hire. It also drives results. Learn how to make it all happen in Paycor’s latest guide.

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How to Add Self-Care Into Your Busy Schedule

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Do you feel like you’re overly focused on work lately that you forget to address your own needs? Do you have the desire to slow down and take care of yourself more, but don’t know where to get started? If so, you came to the right place. Being busy and living with stress has become […].

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Bookmark This! The Hybrid Workforce Edition

HR Bartender

Estimated reading time: 3 minutes. I’ve heard a lot of talk lately about organizations wanting to plan for when employees return to the office and employees wanting to stay remote a while longer. This should not be a surprise to anyone. But I did see someone remark that “hybrid” workforces are starting to be a recruitment marketing tool. Organizations that are trying to recruit right now, might want to think about this.

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Bring company core values to life – from poster to practice

Insperity

Companies often spend a lot of time and effort creating their mission, vision and values. But too often they take all of that work, put words on a poster, place it in front of their employees – and miss the opportunity to put those values into practice. The last thing you want after working on your values is for the poster’s content to become meaningless, something employees ignore while they grab coffee or heat up their lunch in the breakroom.

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5 ways to foster motivation in employees

HR Digest

When you have a workforce that eagerly anticipates the end of Friday and rushing out the office door and sighs morosely on Mondays before entering the office, then you have a problem at hand. The key to running a good business is having motivated workers who push your product and services out there in the market for better returns. What are the steps you need to take for employee motivation?

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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3 Ways PTO Can Help Your Retention Efforts | BerniePortal

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While some degree of turnover is expected in most organizations, experts are predicting a wave of widespread turnover after vaccine efforts help workers feel more confident about making career moves. If this proves to be the case, retention efforts will need to be top of mind for employers going into this summer. Is your organization’s paid time off policy helping or hurting your retention efforts?

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Building An Organizational Strategy That’ll Withstand The Change Ahead

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If you’ve ever had to navigate a canoe down a winding, obstacle-heavy river, you know how important it is that the bow and the stern are synchronized. For a minute, I want you to close your eyes and imagine your business as a canoe and the river as the specific market or industry in which you operate. Think of the rower in the front of the boat (the bow) as your organization, providing power and forward motion to your business.

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6 Tips To Protect Your Business’s Finances

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Your business needs money to survive and thrive. So, it is important to take measures to protect your finances. However, this is often easier said than done. There are numerous threats that could compromise your financial state. Additionally, there are plenty of unforeseen circumstances that could upend the way you do business. The following six […].

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Employee calls in sick when denied vacation – what can you do?

Business Management Daily

Employers create paid time off (PTO) policies so that workers have flexibility to handle both planned and unexpected absences. Those policies likely also include rules for advance leave requests so you can schedule around planned absences. Sudden illnesses, of course, are an exception. However, these policies can also be abused. What happens when an employee is denied vacation, then suspiciously calls in sick for those days?

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6 Steps to a Better Compensation Strategy

Compensation is one of your biggest expenses as a business, but it is also your biggest investment in your people and your culture. A great compensation strategy can be an incredible asset that supports your business goals and lays a foundation of trust between your company and your employees. Whether you already have a compensation strategy in place or you’re building one from scratch, this guide will help you level up your approach through these 6 steps: 1.

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Gelling as a team – from strangers to squad in 7 steps

Insperity

From time to time, you may need to reorganize your teams, bringing in new members from a different part of your organization. To work cohesively and collaboratively, the people involved will have to first learn each other’s personalities and work styles. If handled poorly, these transitions can lead to conflict and slowed productivity. That’s why you need clear strategies for helping people gel as a team.

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Ireland to introduce new law that allows employees to request work from home

HR Digest

Ireland plans to introduce new legislation that allows employees to request remote work. . Tánaiste Leo Varadkar, the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, published Ireland’s first National Remote Work Strategy to mandate remote working a right for people. Under the new rules that will be introduced later this year, employees will have the right to disconnect from work – covering phone calls, emails and switch-off time after working hours, and whenever there are breaches the cases can

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Blue Cross Blue Shield Settlement Details | BerniePortal

BerniePortal

Members who were covered by certain Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance or administrative services plans between February 2008 and October 2020 might be eligible for a class action lawsuit settlement. Read on for more information.

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Changes to the Employment Law in the Maldives

Global People Strategist

In September 2020, the Parliament made several changes to the Employment Law in the Maldives. Initially, this was submitted to the government in 2019, but the Parliament has since made the changes in collaboration with the Maldives’ Social and Economic Affairs Committees. Here are some of the key changes made to the Employment Law in the Maldives: Employment Agreement.

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Bridging the Gap: The Intersection of DEI Initiatives and Employee Benefits

Speaker: Jaye Johnson, CBP

Unlock the secrets to transforming your organization’s employee benefits into a strategic tool for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). During this informative session, we will discuss common pitfalls in traditional benefits and then delve into the essence of DEI in employee-centric benefit offerings. This involves not only defining DEI in the workplace but also understanding the pivotal role that employee benefits play in fostering a diverse and inclusive environment.