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Webinar: How to Avoid Growing Pains in the Federal Market, Feb. 7
Read more: Webinar: How to Avoid Growing Pains in the Federal Market, Feb. 7Doing business as a government contractor is rewarding work, helping agencies conduct their complex missions at home and abroad. It can also be a hard road to travel. Being a federal contractor means, among other things, adhering to a complex array of rules and regulations. So, how can you position your company for profitable growth…
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impactnews: Letter from Kelly Mitchell, Principal with impactHR
Read more: impactnews: Letter from Kelly Mitchell, Principal with impactHRWith the joy and brightness of the Holiday Season upon us, I hope you and your family have time, in the days ahead, to relax and re-charge for the coming new year. It’s hard to believe how fast this year has gone by. With this in mind, please allow me to take this moment to…
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impactnews: PORTAL CFO Consulting’s Manny Skevofilax Talks about Strategies for Business Growth
Read more: impactnews: PORTAL CFO Consulting’s Manny Skevofilax Talks about Strategies for Business GrowthManny Skevofilax, principal of Baltimore-based PORTAL CFO Consulting, has a philosophy pertinent to C-level executives: “I always try to do things simply in business because everyone has to buy in – and in my experience if you go to people and tell them overly complicated things, they’re not going to buy in and then you’ll…
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impactnews: Special interview with Nancy Hammer, Esq., Senior Government Affairs Policy Counsel, with SHRM
Read more: impactnews: Special interview with Nancy Hammer, Esq., Senior Government Affairs Policy Counsel, with SHRMWith the new administration having completed the better part of its first year in office, where is HR headed going into 2018? To help answer this, we’re delighted to present an impactInterview with Nancy Hammer, Esq., Senior Government Affairs Policy Counsel with SHRM. Based in SHRM’s Alexandria, VA headquarters, Nancy works closely with a broad…
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impactnews: OMB Suspends Changes to EEO-1 Form for Employers with 100+ Employees
Read more: impactnews: OMB Suspends Changes to EEO-1 Form for Employers with 100+ EmployeesThe U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) yesterday announced it is suspending planned reporting changes – on summary employee pay data – in the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) standard EE0-1 form. As it stands now, according to OMB, employers with 100 or more employees must still complete, by March 31, 2018, the…
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impactnews: One-on-One with Kelly Mitchell on the State of HR at Mid-Year
Read more: impactnews: One-on-One with Kelly Mitchell on the State of HR at Mid-YearWith mid-year upon us and fall looming ahead, impactnews takes a summertime look at a number of newly evolving trends emerging in HR. With an eye toward helping you optimize strategic decision-making for your company or organization, we’re pleased to present an impactInterview with Kelly Mitchell, Principal at impactHR. impactnews: What is the general “state…
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impactnews: Minimum Wage Levels to Increase in MD, VA, DC on July 1
Read more: impactnews: Minimum Wage Levels to Increase in MD, VA, DC on July 1Beginning July 1, 2017, the minimum wage in Maryland increases from $8.75 per hour to $9.25 per hour. (The rate increases further to $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2018.) Also in Maryland, the minimum wage in Montgomery County increases from $10.75 to $11.50 this July 1 and the minimum wage in Prince George’s County…
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impactnews: impactHR’s Kelly Mitchell Elected to the Howard County (MD) Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors
Read more: impactnews: impactHR’s Kelly Mitchell Elected to the Howard County (MD) Chamber of Commerce Board of DirectorsimpactHR’s Kelly Mitchell has been elected to serve on the Howard County (MD) Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors. Mitchell, who begins three two-year terms of service, was elected to the Board at the Chamber’s 48th Annual Meeting at Turf Valley, May 18, along with M&T Bank’s Charles Camp; The Mall in Columbia’s Barbara Nicklas…
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impactnews: Karen Walsh Publishes Column in the BBJ on Harassment in the Workplace
Read more: impactnews: Karen Walsh Publishes Column in the BBJ on Harassment in the WorkplaceimpactHR’s Karen Walsh, in a column published last week in the Baltimore Business Journal, says it’s no easy task to understand fully why harassment continues to be prevalent in the workplace today. Yet, Walsh writes, there are a number of practical steps that can be taken by both employers and employees to improve this dynamic…
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impactnews: How To Make Your HR Function a “Force for Good”
Read more: impactnews: How To Make Your HR Function a “Force for Good”Fred Wilson, managing partner with Union Square Ventures, a NYC-based venture capital firm, recently wrote in Inc. magazine that a “well designed and implemented human resources organization can help. A messed up human resources organization will hurt.” Wilson, considered one of the more influential investors in (and bloggers on) fast-growing tech companies, put this idea…