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      <title>Diversity in the workplace – Training Ideas</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Diversity in the Workplace is a current, and growing, topic of conversation for HR departments. Providing training for staff has many potential benefits for your company:

    Increasing productivity by lowering intra-staff tensions.
    Potentially increasing the company’s creative ability to solve issues through the increasing variety of employees and their varying backgrounds.
    Providing documentation of diversity training to help prevent potential discrimination claims.

No matter what kinds of training you bring in-house, the follow-up is very important. Trainees of any kind of training typically forget over 80% of the lessons within 30 days. Here are a couple tips for what the follow-up should look like after the training to add diversity in the workplace:
Leadership must help to illustrate how important diversity is to  the company. 

When subordinates return from training, leadership should make it a point to ask them about the training and how it could apply to their daily routines. ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:21:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Here’s a short new-hire training checklist.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Your new-hire training is a great opportunity to help save time and confusion down the road. It’s a chance to systematically layout all most of the aspects of being an employee at your company. The new hire training is the first important step to retaining your employees and all the experience and skills they will acquire during their time with you. As the marketplace improves, the rates of employee retentions are projected to trend downward. 
Most new hire training programs will include:

    Opening remarks from a company leader – This helps to establish that the newly hired employees are seen as a valuable part of the company.
    Personal introductions by all meeting attendees, to help with making friends at the company. Having friends at the company is one of the most powerful aspects to retention.
    Pay Policies and Procedures
    Benefits Overview with lists of resources for more information.
    Safety Briefing. Instructions on what to do in safety emergencies, like exit ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:57:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FMLA leave request leads to lost lawsuit. How to avoid this situation.</title>
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      <link>http://mbahro.com/News/tabid/110/entryid/520/FMLA-leave-request-leads-to-lost-lawsuit-How-to-avoid-this-situation.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A recent court decision adds insight to how Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave requests should be NOT be handled by your company.
You know those employees that are falling short on the job? A recent lawsuit brought by an employee illustrates the need for documentation about job performance, before terminating an employee. 
The Broward County Sheriff’s office, in Florida, fired an employee after her alleged ongoing poor performance.  The trouble was, the sheriff’s office didn’t document enough of her performance to back up a termination. 
The employee requested FMLA leave to get regular treatments for an ongoing infection. The sheriff’s office didn’t give her the FMLA paperwork. After the sheriff’s office fired her a week later, she filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) and then immediately sued the sheriff’s office in federal court, claiming interference with her right to FMLA leave. 
The sheriff’s office contested on two fronts. F ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 19:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Global business trends in 2012 can help you on the local level</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A recent study by Bersin & Associates, an HR research and consulting firm, shed light on some global employer trends.
Social Networking for recruiting

Companies are mining the online social networks to present their brands, spread news about job openings and to target candidates. Candidates are using the social networks to learn about companies and what they are like to work for. They can connect and communicate directly with current, and former, employees to ask questions about your workplace. They see how adept your company is with utilizing social media. They may “follow” your social media news feeds. This effect is dramatically changing the process for recruiting for the best talent.
Performance Management will utilize shorter time cycles
The way of the annual goal review is going away. The report noted a 30% greater impact derived from performance management processes when company goals were reviewed on a quarterly basis. This goes contrary to the traditional practice of creating an ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 22:47:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>FLSA Travel Time Pay for employees. Be aware of the complexities.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Trying to figure out how to pay your employees for travel time is, unfortunately, a complex issue for many companies. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) travel time pay guidelines have been a popular topic with employers since their inception. Do you know the legal answer the the following?:

    My hourly employee is attending a business convention out of town this weekend. Do I have to pay her for travel time? What about the weekend time that she’s away from her family? If she were an exempt employee, would the answer be the same?
    My employee drives from client to client each day. Do I have to pay him for travel time from his home to the first client? What about the time from one client to another?
    My employee was called in to work over the weekend, do I have to include her travel time to work as part of her overtime pay?
    I have to ask my employee to attend a tradeshow event on a Saturday night, is this overtime pay?

As a business owner, these kinds of questions can be endless. Yo ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Using online tools to screen candidates, be careful about legal complications.</title>
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      <link>http://mbahro.com/News/tabid/110/entryid/513/Using-online-tools-to-screen-candidates-be-careful-about-legal-complications.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[With the proliferation of all kinds of ways to research job candidates available through the Internet, the use of these tool is on the rise. But, it’s not always obvious that these tools can expose you to unnecessary risk to lawsuits from rejected candidates.
eBossWatch.com has recently received some media attention because of the research tools it has on its website. The site, founded in 2010, is used by both job candidates and employers. The website has two main tools:


    A tool for employees to rate their supervisors on communication skill and general “niceness”.
    A look-up screen to a self proclaimed “National Sexual Harassment Registry”.

The website owner states all of the information on the site is either submitted by visitors, or attained through public sources. The site software also utilized a news monitoring tool called Google Alerts to cull information from many sources around the internet.
From the employee point of view, the site proposes to help ident ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:33:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>New Media tool are invading Corporate Communications. The end of the employee newsletter?</title>
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      <link>http://mbahro.com/News/tabid/110/entryid/510/New-Media-tool-are-invading-Corporate-Communications-The-end-of-the-employee-newsletter.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[A recent survey, conducted by Towers Watson, indicates that the majority of companies around the world are becoming savvier with the use of social media tools to communicate with their own employees. Over half of the companies responding to the survey indicated they will use more social media tools over 2012.
These tools are being used extensively by both communication and change professionals to meet the demands of the workforce, which is anticipating the use of new media tools as they form a more diverse and globalized workforce.
As a business owner, it’s important to understand that the survey notes that the largest communication programs in companies result in improving the ability of leadership and managers to effectively get their ideas across. And, the best communication programs use the same tools to gather feedback from the employees. That kind of feedback is used to monitor the effectiveness of the communications program.
Yet, finding the return on the investment (ROI) in these tools can be ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:38:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Is your lean company having trouble getting injured employees back to work? </title>
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      <link>http://mbahro.com/News/tabid/110/entryid/511/Is-your-lean-company-having-trouble-getting-injured-employees-back-to-work.aspx</link>
      <description><![CDATA[As the economy recovers, it doesn’t mean business won’t want to keep lean. With companies trying to hold down expenses, in many cases it has become harder to help injured workers get back to work.
The Workers Compensation Research Institute (WCRI) recently offered the results of a survey that indicated a number of factors affecting injured employees trying to get back to work.
Cost associated with creating a position entailing light-duty, transitional or modified duties
Many companies used to create special positions with duties customized to help an injured employee return to the workforce. Many times, the positions required some investment to create, and were not designed for the company to get the normal return based on the salary. For an employee with limitations due to a physical injury, companies by have moved the employee’s workspace to a non-optimal location on a lower floor, or in another building. Companies may have installed accessibility hardware, or purchased special office f ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2012 21:19:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Tips for surrounding yourself with the correct HR people to succeed</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Whether you hire in-house staff, or utilize outsources to handle your HR needs, having the right resources at your disposal is key to succeeding and hitting your company goals.
Business Savvy, well rounded
Today’s HR departments, from top to bottom, need to understand the company’s business model and the needs of the hiring managers. They need to be able to work with your leadership staff to draw out the criteria needed in ideal candidates.
They should be great communicators
Working with hiring supervisors and management can be a communication challenge. The HR employee should be able to listen and ask questions in a way to have a back-and-forth conversation with other staff. This comes as a very valuable asset when a tricky employee situation arises. The HR employee should already have a working relationship with the manager.
They need to be educators
Working with employees and supervisors usually entails a significant amount of education. The HR personnel should be able to share tactics ab ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 02 Jan 2012 23:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Connect the dots for employees to achieve your company strategy</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Recent research reports indicate world-wide employee satisfaction remains at a four-year low point. Employees feel the organization hasn’t effectively demonstrated how the individual worker’s effort contributes to the organization goals.
There’s a strong correlation between the level of employee engagement and the company’s financial performance. 
From the employee’s point of view, what have your leadership and HR departments done in the last twelve months to exemplify how their work ties to the bottom line and overall company success in the marketplace?
Here are a few ideas you might use at your company:

    Train your supervisors to engage their direct reports and talk about how the work relates to the “bigger picture”.  Arm your supervisors with talking points and handouts to help the conversation.
    Take the time to develop communication plans that help explain the company strategy. It’s often best to explain the value of an employee’s work wh ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Florida farmers nervous about threats to their labor force</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Florida farmers are nervous about multiple legislative attempts to keep them from maintaining a workforce. Farmers claim recent proposed legislation threatens to take their ability away to hire undocumented workers, which account for up to 75 percent of their workforce.
It’s not uncommon for undocumented workers to purchase false Social Security cards and use them upon being hired. There is currently no legal requirement for farmers to check that the cards are legitimate. Most farms file the numbers away and start paying the new employees for their work.
Up on Capitol Hill, the proposed Legal Workforce Act (H.R. 2885) would require all farmers (indeed, all employers) to use a federal database to confirm the numbers. This system is the E-Verify database. Farmers would then be mandated to not hire undocumented workers. The proposed law is sponsored by House Judiciary Committee Chairman Lamar Smith, R-Texas.
Proponents of the bill talk about how these jobs should be given to legal workers, like American ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 27 Dec 2011 01:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Human Resource Consulting in St. Petersburg Expected to Continue Increase</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Over the next several years, human resource consulting services for companies in St. Petersburg and beyond are expected to continue to increase as the demand for HR and payroll software continues to rise. IBISWorld estimates that over the next five years, revenue for the HR and Payroll Software industry will increase at an average annual rate of 5 percent to $4 billion. IBISWorld, the nation’s largest publisher of industry market research, says while some companies will go back to outsourcing administrative tasks, others are expected to continue to invest money in HR and payroll software as the economy continues to recover. 

IBISWorld says as corporate profits increase, more and more businesses are expected to continue to branch out and use human resource consulting services. The company expects industry revenue will increase 1.1 percent this year. For example, in St. Petersburg, as we wait for the tourism levels to rebound, keeping your company lean through the use of outsources can be a big advanta ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:18:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Not hiring right now? You're not alone, especially in the manufacturing sector.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[In September of 2012 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the manufacturing sector accounted for 25 percent of all mass layoffs. Mass layoffs is defined as 50 employees or more per event.

A general U.S. hiring drought is predicted to extend into 2012. It seems companies will continue to be wary of taking on expense during this unpredictable economy. Unemployment is hovering around 9 percent as most companies just are not hiring, yet.

Yet, at the same time, many company HR directors are complaining that they can't find the specialized talent they are seeking to hire.

Recent surveys are giving some insight into the situation. Many jobs are disappearing as companies invest in processes and automation, leaving a smaller number of employees. The positions left average to be more highly skilled. This produces the situation we're seeing where the unemployment rate is still high in the lower skilled arenas, while there's a shortage of applications in the higher skilled areas.

This situation d ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 23:23:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Granting longer leaves for maternity can add dangerous complications</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Granting longer leaves for maternity or disability can add dangerous complications for your employees and your HR staff responsible for communications with employees.
The key is to understand the FMLA timelines. Under FMLA, employees are eligible to take 12 weeks of maternity leave. If your company offers a leave period longer than those 12 weeks, it creates a dangerous time gap.
If your company health plan is self-funded, you probably have a reinsurance policy in place to limit your company risk. The reinsurer’s policies are most likely modeled around the 12 week maternity leave time limits. So, if your employee takes more leave and amasses more medical bills outside of that 12 week FMLA window, but inside your company’s longer leave policy, then the issue of insurance coverage for those medical bills arises. This happens if the employee gets to the end of the 12 week FMLA coverage window and then takes short-term disability. The reinsurer may reject the notion that it has obligation to those m ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 02:52:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Providing pre-tax dollars for employee commutes can be a great benefit</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[
25 years ago, commuter benefits began to immerge in legislation and tax codes. The general goal of these changes was  to reduce the number of single occupancy vehicles commuting every day. The 2010 Commuter Benefit Impact Survey reports that companies that avoid offering tax-free commuter benefits have half as many nonsingle-occupancy-vehicle commuters as companies that do offer the benefit. This indicates that offering tax-free benefits to employees does work to encourage the use of public transportation and carpooling.

The survey goes on to state that 75 percent of companies thing they should support the use of public transportation. The key factor in this directive is to ease an employee’s commute costs. In addition, the companies state these kinds of benefits enhance their overall benefits packages, which helps with recruiting and retention.
The Revenue Code, commonly called “commuter benefits”, allows youremployees to spend up to $230 per month in pretax dollars for transit and va ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:10:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Human Resource Consulting - Tampa Working Relationship Tips </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[When you’re working with a human resource consulting company in Tampa, there are many things you can do to help make the working relationship as effective as possible. First of all, regular communication is key. Here are some other tips for working with human resource consulting companies in Tampa:

    Make time for regular conversation. You should set up regular conference calls with everyone involved. The calls should be weekly or bi-weekly. Of course, if you are working on a specific situation or issue, the calls would be more regular. In addition, make sure to have the occasional face-to-face meeting to keep your relationship with your point people secure. This level of relationship can help on those occasions when tough employee situations develop and you want to be on a first-name basis with your HR outsource.
    A local Tampa human resource consulting firm should understand your local issues. Ask about how partnering with a local HR outsource is good for you. The consulting firm should be ab ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 17 Dec 2011 22:28:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>When training can get you sued</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There are reasonable limits to making training realistic. A recent lawsuit in Las Vegas' Clark County District Court on November 7th documents an allegation that a hospital hired an off duty police officer to pose as an irate visitor to the intensive care unit of the St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson, Nevada. The documentation states the officer displayed a real gun and held multiple staff members hostage for a period of time before declaring that the event was a drill. The plaintiff was one of those "held hostage" and claims multiple aspects of legal damages ranging from emotional trauma, assault and false imprisonment. The plaintiff in the Clark County lawsuit is seeking over $50,000 in damages.

Now, being a fan of employee training is one thing, but we think this alleged event was clearly taking training too far. Some industries have a need for very intensive and life-like training. But, the closest most businesses come to intensive training comes when you try to tackle security issues. In today' ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 23:20:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Human Resources Tampa – How Should You Reward your Employees?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to the U.S. Labor Statistics (who specialize in issues related to human resources), Tampa is number one in job growth out of all major metro areas. That means there are many employees in Tampa who are looking for their human resources department to throw a little holiday cheer their way this year. And according to a new survey by placement firm CareerBuilder, workers can, in fact, expect some holiday cheer in the workplace this year. The survey found companies are offering more bonuses, parties and gifts than last year. 
The survey, which was conducted in August, included responses from 2,696 human resources professionals and hiring managers and 4,086 full-time non-government workers. 
Data from the survey uncovered the following:
Parties: The survey found 58 percent of employees plan to throw a holiday party for their workers. This is up from only 52 percent last year. In addition, 36 percent of workers say they plan to attend their company holiday party.
Gifts: Thirty percent of workers say th ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:24:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Info about Insurance Coverage from COBRA in Tampa </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If your Tampa employees who want to know more about COBRA continuation health coverage, you can direct them to the resources the United States Department of Labor has laid. With Tampa’s unemployment rate still at 10.3% (as of Oct. 2011), this may still be a timely issue for your company.
Back in 1986, Congress passed the Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) health benefit.  The law amends the Internal Revenue Code, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and the Public Health Service Act to give continuation of group health coverage that otherwise might be terminated. 
If you’re wondering who in Tampa (and everywhere in the U.S.) COBRA helps, it’s gives certain former employees, retirees, spouses, former spouses and dependent children the right to a temporary continuation of health coverage at group rates. Please note: COBRA is only available when coverage is lost due to certain events. In addition, health coverage for people who take part in COBRA usually costs more  ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 20:49:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>An HRO in Tampa - Tips for Finding One</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[If you’re looking to hire Human Resource Outsourcing in Tampa, here are some tips and tricks to help make your decision making easy. 
With regulations, worker’s compensation, payroll and a ton of other headaches, the role of human resource professionals has grown immensely over the past several years. For many companies in Tampa and beyond, they have decided Human Resource Outsourcing (HRO) is the way to go. Many agree HRO is the most cost effective and productive way to handle HR functions today. By outsourcing your payroll, the company you choose can handle benefits, payroll, work safety compliance and other regulatory concerns.
What are some of the major benefits to HRO?

    Cost Savings for You – By using an HRO, you can save money on hiring an HR staff. According to the United States Office of Personnel Management, the U.S. Transportation Security Administration saved between 20 and 25 percent in operating costs by outsourcing tasks. Outsourcing certain tasks such as payroll proces ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 20:55:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Human Resources St. Petersburg – Handle Checking up on Job Candidates with Care</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to the St. Petersburg Area Chamber of Commerce, the City of St. Petersburg has a workforce of more than 1.2 million people. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate in St. Petersburg is 10.5 percent. Many residents in the area most likely have Facebook and other social media accounts they check and post to regularly. But when staff at companies that deal with human resources in St. Petersburg are looking to hire new talent, how much checking and clicking on the Web is too much? 
With so much information being constantly posted on social media sites, this gives you many ways to elevate your level of background checking. However, this has also increased concerns over both legality and privacy issues. Human resource experts say sites such as Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook play an important role in today’s hiring process. Those experts also say you should be careful about what information you choose to use to influence your decisions and how you handle those media backgr ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 10 Dec 2011 23:31:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Printable w9 form in Tampa? Find one here.</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Scroll down for a printable W9 form resource
If you live in Tampa and would like to find a printable W-9 form, you should be sure you first know when a W-9 form is appropriate. The IRS offers some invaluable information on this form. 
According to the IRS, the Form W-9 is used to request the taxpayer identification number (TIN) of a “U.S. person” and to request claims for exemption and certain certifications. For federal purposes, a “U.S. person” is defined as follows:

    A person who is either a U.S. citizen or U.S. resident alien
    Any estate (not including a foreign estate)
    A domestic trust
    A corporation, company, partnership or association created or organized in the United States (or under the laws of the U.S.). Please note: a partnership might require a signed W-9 form from its U.S. partners. 

The W-9 form may be submitted electronically, including by fax. The IRS defines a requester as anyone who is required to file an information return. A payee is de ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 22:43:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Group Encourages Paid Leave for Employees who Donate an Organ</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The American Society of Transplantation (AST) encourages companies of all sizes to create and implement a paid leave program for living organ donation. At least 30 states have policies in place to give paid leave to organ donors and many others have legislation in the works. California mandated paid leave for organ donors or bone marrow donation this past January.  
According to the AST, the federal government has had a paid leave policy in place since 1999. At least 40 companies across the United States have similar paid leave policies in place for organ donors. Barnes-Jewish Hospital in St. Louis reportedly offers up to six weeks of paid leave for employees who donate an organ. Employees agree it’s a great benefit in the event they need to use it. 
The AST says paid leave could help ease the shortage of organs in the U.S. Each month, 3,700 new patients are added to the transplant waiting list and 18 patients pass away each day waiting for transplants. In addition, living donors (who are often family ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:54:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Ten Years of Growth - Human Resource Outsourcing - Tampa </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[There are many companies in Tampa that find human resource outsourcing invaluable. The trend of human resource outsourcing has grown tremendously over the past 10 years. When you look for a human resource outsourcing company in Tampa Bay, you should know workplace experts say successful outsourcing starts with internal processes (such as HR transformation, gap analysis, change management and pragmatic scoping). 
As companies in Tampa enter into a second decade of human resource outsourcing, it’s clear they are here to stay. They have also become a cost-effective delivery strategy. Workplace experts say as this trend continues, challenges can be addressed and operational effectiveness can be improved. 
History of Human Resource Outsourcing
Even though the modern version of human resource outsourcing began in 1999 when British Petroleum agreed to outsource most of its human resource processes to Exult, human resource outsourcing was not new. Companies had previously outsourced payroll and benefits admi ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:14:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>How can you Build a Top Notch Sales Team?</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Workplace experts say when you’re looking to build a top notch sales team, you should first look at the candidate’s appearance and pay close attention to your first reaction. You should consider the whole package during the interview. Your first reaction will be how others will react to them. Therefore, you should want to do business with them. If they are hired, you can train them for your needs. People like to hire others who they trust.  You can have a great product, but if the person on the other end of the phone or table doesn’t trust or like them, your product won’t get sold. 
Sales success requires more than just being persuasive. It also involves having skill, strategy and a clear understanding of the company’s future. You should look for candidates who represent the culture of your company. Maybe for your company, that means dressing up every day. The right candidate should look the part and act professional. 
Job experts say candidates should also make strong eye cont ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:50:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>2012 Won’t bring big changes in Salaries. Tips for employee retention.</title>
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According to forecasters, the average salary increases expected for 2012 are about 3 percent, about the same as 2011. This news comes as some Americans were hoping for increases in pay to accompany the recovering marketplace. 

At the same time, a Scottsdale, AZ organization that focuses on human resources issues, WorldatWork, noted that for a recent 12-month period, inflation rose faster than base pay for the first time since 1980.

These kinds of industry effects can hurt your company’s ability to retain employees. Each company is different; make sure your policies and processes for compensating employees reflect your company’s mission and culture. Here are a few tips that you can take into consideration during your next meeting with your leadership staff.

To retain your employees and help motivate them, consider:

As a business owner trying to keep costs down, you might consider going with the trend to ramp up your bonus system, rather than base pay. A bottom line increase can fund ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Employees want Strong Benefits Plan</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[For companies looking to strengthen their workforce, it’s no secret that having a strong and well-rounded compensation plan will only help your cause. According to the Benefits USA 2011/2012 survey, in an effort to keep workers happy, employers are offering employees a wide variety of benefits. For example, according to the survey, dental insurance is offered by 98.2 percent of companies and vision insurance is offered by 84.5 percent of them. 
Ninety-nine percent of survey respondents reported offering retirement plans to workers. In addition, short-term disability is offered by 87.5 percent of companies and long-term disability is offered by 94.3 percent. Close to half offer accident insurance. 
The survey found almost 98 percent of employers offer life insurance. In addition, 70 percent use multiples of an employee’s pay to figure out the maximum death benefit that beneficiaries would receive. And more than 43 percent of companies that use that process set death benefits at one full year of a ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 30 Nov 2011 17:27:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>Watch out for Social Media Information when Hiring</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Experts say the use of social media when looking to hire job candidates should be handled with caution. During a recent panel discussion during the 24th annual Professional Liability Underwriting Society conference, company executives explored this topic. Experts said companies should make sure they are consistent and fair when using social media in the hiring process. For instance, if you use a social media site to check one candidate, you should be sure to use it for all candidates.  
Panelists in "EPLI Litigation: One Degree of Separation Between Employees' Use of Social Networking and Employers Exposures?" also advised companies to filter out certain information.  Sarah K. Goldstein, a partner with law firm Kaufman Dolowich Voluck & Gonzo L.L.P. in Los Angeles, said today, there is such an abundance of information that's available, that the employer must be sure to filter out the information to be sure it does not learn about issues it should not know about, such as religion and politics.
Experts al ...]]></description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 17:25:00 GMT</pubDate>
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      <title>State Aims to Reduce Painkiller Prescriptions Resulting from Workplace Injuries</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Due to drug addictions and overdoses from people with worker’s comp injuries, the state of Washington has developed guidelines for painkiller prescriptions.  The state guidelines recommend that doctors curb prescribing large doses of the opioid painkillers. The federal government is blaming them for a nationwide public health epidemic of deaths (from overdoses) and addiction. Research shows there is an apparent correlation with an increase in deaths and an increase in painkiller prescriptions. 
Medical experts believe Washington’s guidelines could serve as an example for other states aiming to reduce the number of deaths and addiction among workers’ comp claims (as well as the general population). Washington officials say guidelines are necessary because many people with relatively minor workplace injuries are ending up addicted or dying. 
The guidelines include recommendations for doctors to not increase opioid doses beyond an average daily morphine equivalent of 120 milligrams when a pat ...]]></description>
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      <title>Research Shows Overweight Workers are Costly </title>
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      <description><![CDATA[According to a study that was recently released by the Washington-based Gallup organization, overweight workers miss millions more days work than those who are not. In addition, missed work ends up costing about $153 billion a year in lost productivity. The Gallup poll shows full-time workers in the United States who are overweight, obese or have other chronic health problems, miss 450 million more days of work a year than their healthy and normal weight counterparts. 
During its telephone survey of 109,875 workers during a nine-month period (from January to October of this year), Gallup found that only 13.9 percent of full-time workers have a normal body weight and do not suffer from any chronic health problems. 
According to a statement from Gallup, "The high percentages of full-time U.S. workers who have less-than-ideal health are a significant drain on productivity for U.S. businesses. However, employees and employers have the opportunity to potentially increase productivity if they address the health i ...]]></description>
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