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Could Your Company’s Unpaid Internship Program Land It in Legal Trouble?

By / March 24, 2015 / Uncategorized No Comments

Summer is fast approaching and with it prime internship season. If your company has an internship program in place, is planning to start one or just wants to test the waters by hiring one intern for the summer, now is the time to review or make plans for managing your interns and ensuring their time with your organization is mutually […]

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The Information Every Employer Should Keep in Its Personnel Files

By / March 17, 2015 / Uncategorized No Comments

It takes a lot of paperwork to hire employees, provide them with benefits and track their work history with your company. Not only do you need to collect this information from employees, but you also need to store it properly for future reference. And in many cases, it’s not enough to simply have the required documents on file. If they […]

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Employee Handbooks: 7 Potentially Costly Mistakes

By / August 12, 2014 / Uncategorized No Comments

Employee handbooks are important, but when not properly executed, they can pose, rather than prevent, costly issues for an employer. When you put an employee handbook together, you need to ensure that you’re not setting your company up for legal problems down the road. Consider these seven common employee handbook mistakes you should work to avoid. Omitting Essential Policies It […]

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Tales From Chicago

By / July 30, 2013 / Uncategorized No Comments

Each year the nationally acclaimed Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) hosts a human resource conference. The event is host to hundreds of vendors of HR products and services and also provides continuing education seminars for 15,000+ HR professionals.  This year the SHRM national conference was held in Chicago, and I had the opportunity to attend the event that was […]

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She Wore Flowers (and pink streaks and feathers) In Her Hair

By / April 10, 2013 / Uncategorized No Comments

She Wore Flowers (and pink streaks and feathers) In Her Hair…. When was the last time you walked into a company you considered to be a professional environment only to be greeted by a smiling individual sporting technicolor hair or large, graphic body art? Did this encounter leave you wondering if this company had a dress code? It doesn’t seem […]

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