by Chris Schrader | Jul 7, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
We have all heard the happy talk since the July jobs report rolled out last week. Job growth beat expectations! (As if expectations have been even halfway right for the last six years). There were 288,000 new jobs created in June. Unemployment fell to its...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 5, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources
If you are similar to me, you probably start your day checking your voicemail and email and then responding to those in order of importance. This can take 10 minutes or an hour, but it is a ritual. Ron Friedman, Ph.D., the founder of ignite80 has a different...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog, In The News
The words of Thomas Jefferson found in the Declaration of Independence never fail to stir my heart. So perfect was his work that the Committee of Five (among them Ben Franklin and Sam Adams) changed only 2 words. Jefferson then had to sit through editing by members...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources
The short answer is “yes.” The “how” is the hard part. Most all managers have had the experience of supervising a poor performer. The typical response is to adopt a “wait and see” approach in the hope the individual will self-correct. This hardly ever...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 2, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
In its never ending quest to make the workplace virtually unmanageable, the Board has come out with another gem bound to vex human resources professionals. Naturally the decision applies to both non-union and unionized employers, throwing a wrench into...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 1, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, Human Resources, In The News
The Supreme Court issued two decisions yesterday. One has implications for state governments as employers, and the other has implications for the Affordable Care Act. Harris v. Quinn involved the complaint of Harris, mother of a disabled son who, as his...
by Chris Schrader | Jun 30, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
Judge Richard Young, a U.S. District Judge, found Indiana’s law forbidding same-sex marriage unconstitutional in a ruling issued on July 25. He joined a long line of jurists who have ruled similarly, most recently in Utah and Pennsylvania. What followed next was...
by Chris Schrader | Jan 28, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, Human Resources, In The News
Based on the contours established over the last four months we now have enough information on the ambitious launch of the Affordable Care Act to begin to understand the shape of things to come. The intended objective of the Act (The practical elimination of uninsured...
by Chris Schrader | Nov 29, 2013 | Blog, In The News
Shoppers at Wal-Mart today may be treated to chanting people circling in front of the store and criticizing their labor practices. The likelihood that one of those people is, or even was, an actual employee of Wal-Mart will be slim to none. But that’s cool with the...
by Chris Schrader | Nov 25, 2013 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, In The News
The Obama Administration announced changes last Friday in dates relevant to open enrollment in 2014; it also announced that 2013 enrollees will have until December 23rd to pay for insurance coverage beginning January 1, 2014 (the previous deadline was December 15)....
