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impactnews: Keeping an eye on employee retention
Read more: impactnews: Keeping an eye on employee retentionLast September, impactHR’s impactnews reported that President Obama signed an Executive Order giving covered employees working on federal contracts the right to accrue up to seven days of paid sick leave each year. The order, which begins with new contracts issued in 2017, affects roughly 300,000 workers, each of whom will earn one hour of…
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impactnews: 5 Important HR Issues to Follow in 2016
Read more: impactnews: 5 Important HR Issues to Follow in 2016With the start of the new year, here’s an impactnews primer on five HR issues and topics that likely will loom large in 2016: the Affordable Care Act; marijuana and the workplace; proposed changes to overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act; state and city minimum wage increases; and the latest news around paid sick…
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impactnews: Letter from Kelly Mitchell, Principal of impactHR
Read more: impactnews: Letter from Kelly Mitchell, Principal of impactHRAs we head into the Holiday Season and the end of the year, I want to express my gratitude to all of our customers, partners and friends whom we’ve worked and collaborated closely with through 2015. To be sure, it’s been an exciting year at impactHR and in the field of human resources. With this…
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impactnews: ACA Health Insurance Forms Due to Employees by Feb. 1, 2016
Read more: impactnews: ACA Health Insurance Forms Due to Employees by Feb. 1, 2016Employers with more than 50 employees and those with fewer than 50 should start now to prepare filing for a set of key health insurance forms to the IRS as required under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The first deadline to note is Feb. 1, 2016, which is when employers need to provide copies of…
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impactnews: Federal contract employees given paid sick leave
Read more: impactnews: Federal contract employees given paid sick leavePresident Obama, earlier this month, signed an Executive Order giving all people working on federal contracts the ability to accrue up to seven days of paid sick leave each year. The order, which begins with new contracts issued in 2017, affects roughly 300,000 workers, each of whom will earn one hour of paid sick leave…
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impactnews: Understanding employer & employee rights and responsibilities
Read more: impactnews: Understanding employer & employee rights and responsibilitiesAre employer and employee relations essentially about conflict management or a balance of appropriate behavior? For Mary Davis, Senior Management Consultant at impactHR, it’s ideally the latter. To illustrate how, Davis shares a story from early in her HR career about a situation involving routine surgery in a Midwestern hospital’s operating room (OR). The nurse…
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impactnews: impactHR’s Karen Walsh Graduates from Leadership Howard County
Read more: impactnews: impactHR’s Karen Walsh Graduates from Leadership Howard CountyimpactHR Senior Consultant, Karen Walsh recently graduated from Leadership Howard County, MD’s (LHC) 2015 Premier Class. LHC builds two classes each of year comprised of senior-level leaders and professionals under 40. Participants immerse themselves in community programs and work in small learning groups to study policy issues affecting Howard County citizens. Through these active projects,…
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Worker Disengagement Remains High Despite Improving Economy
Read more: Worker Disengagement Remains High Despite Improving EconomyIs it possible that 67% of U.S. workers are “disengaged” or “actively disengaged” in their jobs? The answer is yes, according to a new Gallup poll.