A Step-by-Step Guide to On-Boarding New-Hires

Many organizations struggle to on-board and engage new employees effectively which poses challenges in setting them up for success in their new roles. As a result, we’ve compiled a step-by-step guide to help you successfully on-board and engage your new-hires.

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3 Reasons You’re Losing Employees Because of Pay

In this article, we explore three current and critical compensation problems that cause employers to lose talented employees. These issues include low salary increases, lack of differentiation in pay by performance, and difficulties finding the actual “going rate” for jobs.

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The 5 Most Common Pitfalls of Performance Reviews

Performance reviews are important tools that managers can use to boost employee performance and productivity to higher levels, but often fall prey to some common mistakes. As your organization prepares to review employee performance in the coming months, we recommend avoiding these 5 pitfalls.

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5 Measurements to Evaluate Salaries

6 Tools to Evaluate Salaries

Does your organization know the health of its base salary program? The health of your base salary practices can easily fly under the radar if you aren’t paying attention to certain important numbers. It may result in overpaying or underpaying employees, employees being paid outside of pay ranges, an uncompetitive mix of pay forms, or a low revenue return on your costly investments.

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What is ADA?

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), enacted in 1990 and amended in 2008, prohibits private employers with 15 or more employees, state and local governments, employment agencies, and labor unions from discriminating against qualified individuals with disabilities in employment activities. Such activities include hiring, termination, training, promotion, compensation, and other terms and conditions of employment.

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What is Discrimination?

Discrimination in the workplace refers to when an individual or group of individuals are treated less favorably than others solely because of their race, sex, pregnancy or marital status, age, disability, religion, sexual preference, trade union activity, or other class or characteristic protected under federal or state legislation. It is illegal for employers to discriminate against individuals from protected classes in the workplace if they are current or prospective employees, such as job candidates.

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Job Descriptions: An Essential How-To Guide

Employers often face challenges in creating new job descriptions for positions that they do not currently employ, identifying essential job functions, and keeping job descriptions updated. For these reasons, members often request sample job descriptions from ERC and consult with us to develop or update their job descriptions.

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3 Frequently Asked Questions about FLSA

Employers usually have a number of questions about the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which governs wage and hour rules – when and how employers are obligated to pay employees for time worked or not worked under law. Here are answers to 3 frequently asked questions about issues related to FLSA.

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How to Manage FMLA Intermittent Leave: 7 Strategies

How to Better Manage FMLA Intermittent Leave: 7 Strategies

There is probably no task more cumbersome for HR professionals than managing intermittent leave under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Intermittent leave allows qualified employees to take FMLA leave in small blocks of time (such as one hour) versus one block of 12 weeks.

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