An increasing number of employers is benefiting from external recruitment firms and resume databases when it comes to finding the best candidates for specific jobs. The result of this development has given... Read more »

Often frustrated employees can place negative comments about your company on major social media platforms. It can create a negative outcome for the employer and the employee. Employees that read the negative... Read more »

The EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) remained active in 2011 as issues such as domestic violence, LGBT rights, and social media passwords were investigated. HR and benefits professionals will have to keep... Read more »

While conducting a health care reform webinar recently, we received questions that suggested the need to remind employers sponsoring group health care plans about their self-reporting obligations, and significant potential exposure to... Read more »

As you may have heard, the U.S Supreme Court denied Hobby Lobby an injunction against the PPACA contraceptive coverage mandate. Employers who maintain health care plans are required to pay excise taxes... Read more »

While audits of qualified retirement plans have become commonplace, audits of health and welfare plans have historically been much less common. Only a select group of ?lucky? employers was subjected to health... Read more »

Workplace conflict has become endemic and is costly to business. In fact, one scholar has noted that ?[u]nresolved conflict represents the largest reducible cost in many businesses, yet it remains largely unrecognized.?... Read more »

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) might release its updated version of Form I9, this fall. The updated form will most likely be eighty percent larger than before and will increase from... Read more »

Human beings have no hand to control the whims of nature. The recent disturbances in weather, including the cyclones that constantly hit the coastal states, the blizzards, and the snow storms hitting... Read more »