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How employee resource groups can help employees and your business

Insperity

It’s a good idea to consult with your legal team as you define your policy on employee resource groups and work with active groups. Train your company’s leadership to understand employee resource groups and their purpose, as well as the company policy governing employee resource groups. What to watch out for.

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Furlough vs. layoff: What’s the difference, and what do employers need to know?

Insperity

And if exempt employees only work a partial week due to a government shutdown, you likely still need to pay them a full week’s salary. Other tips for avoiding issues as an employer: Check with your legal counsel to understand if a furlough would affect your employees’ full-time status under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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This is one thing AI cannot do (and what managers can do about it)

Work Life

The algorithm was instructed to optimize cost-efficiency, and it was more expensive to advertise to younger female applicants because they were considered a prized demographic. Skipping this step could lead to unfair hiring practices going unnoticed and soon legal consequences.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

It’s important to pay attention to the business matters at hand along with their legal aspects and personalities, he adds. When I started as a government contract consultant in 2005, I would accept all kinds of consulting: sales and marketing, certification, business development and contracts. Win-win-win.

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3 leadership red flags Elizabeth Holmes should have raised—and how you can spot them yourself

Work Life

He wrote to Holmes that “samples should have never run on Edisons to begin with” and that he was “extremely irritated and frustrated by folks with no legal background taking legal positions and interpretations on these matters.” Whatever the legal culpability of Elizabeth Holmes, this much is clear.

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Employee or Independent Contractor? How to Properly Classify Your Workers and Ensure Compliance

Insperity

Since companies pay less in payroll taxes for independent contractors versus employees, the government is determined and quick to identify mislabeled workers. Note: Classifying workers as independent contractors or employees is a complex legal and tax issue. per hour level. Classification: employee or independent contractor?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 15: Withdrawal of Psychiatric Drugs

Mad in America

He has worked with drug addicts for decades, and, like other psychiatrists who have experience with both legal and illegal drugs, 135 he says that it is generally much easier to stop heroin than to stop a benzodiazepine or an SSRI because the abstinence symptoms with heroin disappear rather quickly.