Are YOU Engaged as a Manager?

Managers, YOU can make a difference!

The relationship between the direct supervisor and the employee if the most critical. Well and frequently engaged managers can make a HUGE difference in the morale, productivity and life of your company. Learn how to be an Engaged Manager with these 8 steps: 

Managing Vacation Requests

“But it’s my Cousin’s Wedding”

It is often difficult to strike that perfect balance between allowing employees some degree of flexibility to take vacations, while ensuring adequate coverage in the workplace. Employers also find it difficult to juggle multiple vacation requests around popular vacation times. Below we have listed a few tips, suggestions and best practices to ensure the vacation plan works well for both the employer and its employees.

If your business is highly seasonal in nature, you may wish to enact a policy requiring employees to use all or a specific amount of vacation during the slow months.

Is Your Compass Set?

Navigating Your Business through the Affordable Care Act 

Coming soon to a Chamber of Commerce near you!
 

Join us with your local Chamber of Commerce for an informational session on ACA for the small business owner.  "Navigating Your Business through the Affordable Care Act" will focus on the rules, tax benefits currently available, and resources for the future.   

Is it Vacation or Paid Time Off?

Traditionally, employers offered separate paid time off benefits to employees, such as paid vacation, sick leave and personal days.  However, in the past decade, many companies have moved to a more flexible Paid Time Off or “PTO” benefit that incorporates all policies into one all-inclusive PTO plan.

The debate as to whether employers benefit from offering PTO  verses separate vacation, sick and personal leave plans is constantly being researched.  In an effort to assist employers in making an informed decision in this regard, below are some advantages and disadvantages of combining the company’s separate paid time off benefits into a single Paid Time-Off (PTO) plan.

Preventing Harassment

Quid Pro Quo Sexual Harassment

Asking an employee, directly or indirectly, to submit to a sexual advance in exchange for some benefit at work.

• A person feels that employment decisions depend on whether he or she submits to or rejects the conduct.

Hostile Work Environment Harassment

• Pervasive sexual or gender-based activity or comments
• Verbal or physical conduct that denigrates or shows hostility or aversion toward an individual because of that person's (or that person's relatives', friends', or associates') race, skin color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability or other protected class

To be considered harassment under the law, the conduct must:

New I-9 Form Now Available

The U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published the updated Form I-9 which all employers must use to verify the identify and employment authorization of new hires no later than May 7, 2013.

Questions? Ask your HR expert.

As you will see when you look over the new I-9 document, the entire form and instructions increased in length from five to nine pages. The additional length appears to be due to a lot more detail in the instructions for both employees and employers, which is good to see. The form itself also has a different look. The layout appears to be clearer with regard to what needs to be completed and by whom.

Get the New Form here.

Required Posting Update | Post by March 7, 2013

There have been a few changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) section of your required postings effective March 8, 2013. What changed? 

  

STEP 1 

Please print this temporary flier to stay compliant ASAP & tape to current poster.  

FMLA | EFF. 3/08/2013 

STEP 2

Cardinal will soon have new posters will the updated requirements available. Request a poster be mailed to you once available.

REQUEST POSTER 

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