Know When to Pay for Travel Time: Rules for Travel
Carol Kardas shares insights into the FLSA rules regarding employee travel. Know when you need to pay for your employees' time and when you don't!
Making the Right Hiring Decisions – Tips for Hiring Right
If you follow these helpful tips from Carol Kardas when hiring an employee, you will lessen your chances of being sued for wrongdoing in the hiring process.
Bonuses & Overtime: Rules and Calculations
Carol Kardas explains the special rules for calculating overtime to include the dollar amount of the bonus paid.
Five Itsy-Bitsy HR Spiders That Can Bite Your Small Business
Carol Kardas shares the five little HR "spiders" lurking out in the "small business wilderness" that can "bite" you if you don't handle them correctly.
Can I Dock an Exempt Employee’s Pay? – When is it Legal?
Carol Kardas is often asked, "Can I dock an exempt employee's pay?" The simple answer is "yes", but there are only five times when it is legal to do so.
Incivility in the Workplace
Carol Kardas shares tips to create a positive and productive work environment that is free from incivility and harassment.
Tips for Crafting a Workplace Dress Code Policy
As an organization, you may see employees dressing more casually and their grooming efforts waning. Some of the outfits or piercings may be out of place, in your opinion, but without a viable Grooming or Workplace Dress Code Policy, it may be difficult to enforce an employee's attire.
Inclement Weather – How Do I Pay My Staff?
A well-written weather policy should be explicit and tell the employees what time you will pay for and will not pay for when absent due to the weather/disasters. Carol Kardas shares several scenarios that employers should be aware of.
Record Retention Guidelines
Carol Kardas offers some record retention guidelines to follow regarding particular files you may be keeping in the Human Resource File.
6 Frequent Human Resources Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Carol Kardas reveals common mistakes made regarding Handbooks, Hiring Decisions, Misclassifying Employees, Termination, and Regulatory Compliance.