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Handling Your HR Mistakes – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

When I explained my hire date was incorrect, I was told that I had been accruing Paid Time Off (PTO) at a lower rate. Looking back, there were times when I took time off, didn’t have enough PTO, and lost wages. Does the company owe me back PTO for the last few years? When I was told that I would receive 2.5

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Manager checklist — Are you a “good” manager?

Business Management Daily

I follow a formal onboarding program that ensures job duties, human resources paperwork, and the like are covered when someone starts a new job. __. Whether a mistake is mine or someone else’s, I treat it as a learning experience, focus on improvement, and move on. __. I give credit where it is due. __.

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Employees: You Need to Read This

HR Bartender

I bring up the challenges with employee handbook because a friend of mine recently shared the story of a human resources manager who was getting considerable pushback from senior management about the need to have new hires sign for both the employee handbook and a whole bunch of separate policies (i.e.

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Handling a Negative Sick Pay Balance – Ask #HR Bartender

HR Bartender

He’s helped us before with reader questions – this one is a favorite of mine. Last question, from your perspective, do situations like this make the case for paid time off (PTO) easier? I’ve always said that I never wanted to be the human resources director that banned Girl Scout cookies.

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100 SHRM Chapter Seminar Program Ideas

UpstartHR

Yours is bigger, but mine is better: how to succeed with a small team. Yours, Mine, Ours: how to integrate after a merger or acquisition. PTO, Vacation, and Employee Leave Best Practices. Personnel to Human Resources: How to be a strategic business asset. Nuke the paper: how to reduce clutter in your HR processes.

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