COMPANY SUCCESS: TIPS TO DEAL EFFECTIVELY WITH YOUR BOSS

Being successful in your job doesn’t only involve doing your job properly and timely, and managing the members in your team properly, in case you are a team manager or supervisor. It also means being able to manage your boss accurately. This will definitely help on overall company success. But what do we mean by [...]

2018-03-15T15:32:10+00:00March 15th, 2018|

EMPLOYEE HANDBOOK POLICIES THAT COMPANIES MAY NEED TO REVIEW

Richard Griffin, the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, conducted recently a report on employee handbook rules and regulations. According to the conclusions of this report, there are many policies that can be unlawful with the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Therefore, in order to be in full compliance with the NLRA, it would be [...]

2018-03-13T19:41:07+00:00March 13th, 2018|

EMPLOYEE RETENTION FOR SMALL BUSINESSES

This is an awesome time for small businesses, especially in Colorado where population keeps growing each month at a hectic pace. But this also means that, with such a big growth in the state's economy and such a big growth in the number of companies, the unemployment rates are so low that it is hard [...]

2018-03-06T14:31:07+00:00March 6th, 2018|

WORKPLACE SAFETY

All companies are obliged by law to offer a safe workplace to their employees. Both the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) and the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act) protect employees, so if any employee feels unsafe in their workplace, they have the right to refuse working, and can file a complaint with Occupational [...]

2018-03-02T17:34:39+00:00March 2nd, 2018|

INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS AND MISCLASSIFICATION

The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL) of the United States has required to the Congress an increase of $49 million on the funds for 2016. The main reason for this increase is the need of hiring 300 additional investigators. This requirement is specially based on what the WHD defines [...]

2018-02-22T15:14:34+00:00February 22nd, 2018|

ACA: EXCHANGE NOTICES

If you are an employer with over 50 employees, you have to be in compliance with the Employer Shared Responsibility terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). This means that you have to offer minimum value affordable healthcare to your employees. If any of your employees decide to seek subsidized healthcare through the Insurance Exchange [...]

2018-02-15T15:59:29+00:00February 15th, 2018|

PEO: WHY SHOULD BUSINESS OWNERS PARTNER WITH ONE?

Why should a small company owner hire a PEO (Professional Employer Organization)? Owners of small business many times were many hats inside their own company, even in one single day. And never mind how highly qualified this owner may be, he cannot perform as an expert in all these areas of the business, or not [...]

2018-02-06T15:25:17+00:00February 6th, 2018|

THE EMPLOYMENT APPLICATION: AN IMPORTANT CORING TOOL FOR SMALL COMPANIES

The employment application form is a very important tool for small businesses. Small business owners should never decide a new hire based exclusively on the resume, as more than half of resumes are inaccurate. So before making any hire, they should make the candidates fill in a employment application. Employment applications or job applications give [...]

2018-02-01T14:36:38+00:00February 1st, 2018|

EMPLOYEE RETENTION FOR THE NEW GENERATION

Employee retention and engagement is one of the main concerns of companies nowadays, and taking into account that the future of our workforce are millennials, Dale Carnegie decided to learn more from this generation of young professionals in order to understand their motivations and how to engage them. This study has shown the differences between [...]

2018-01-30T17:00:14+00:00January 30th, 2018|