Archive for Human Resources
Insurance and the Employee Handbook
If you decide to purchase D&O insurance, you will need to provide employment practices information on your application. Most of the questions on the application will revolve around your employment handbook.
In general, the sections required for your insurance will be:
Legally Prohibited Discrimination
Sexual Harassment
Compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act
Compliance with the 1991 Civil Rights Act
Compliance [...]
Smart Business Practices Include an Employee Background Check
By Simon Skinner
As you hire new employees, you check resumes and references, you meet with them in person, and you work off those few minutes to hire one of the many candidates you interviewed that day or that week. With all that you do, are you sure you are checking the most important thing? An [...]
Why You Should Have an Employee Handbook
You are not required by law to have an employee handbook (except in CA, where they require a written policy prohibiting sexual harassment); however, that does not mean that you shouldn’t. There are theories that state if you have a handbook that you are making a contract with your employees and you could get your [...]
Employee Leasing, PEO, Or Payroll Leasing - What’s In A Name
By Timothy L. Russell
In a world where it is increasingly common for business owners to outsource their payroll, workers’ compensation insurance, and HR to guys like me, a more appropriate question is “why all the names?”, when all three of the terms in this title correctly describe exactly what we do.
That’s right. You can pick [...]
