I’ve read about HR people who handle employee relations. What does that encompass exactly? Employee Relations, whether it’s “done” by a specialist or a generalist, is always an HR function. In one company (large health care system) employee relation specialists interpret policies,...

An hourly employee has been having transportation problems. The manager has been bringing her to work and taking her home. The manager is not always on time, nor leaves on schedule (because of the responsibilities). It’s making another employee feel uncomfortable and believes there’s favortism...

Magazines and other subscription sites are notorious for selling your personal information to sites such as ZabaSearch. Do you want to avoid getting hit by those spammers? Guerrilla Mail offers temporary email accounts that last for only 15 minutes. So lets say that you go to a website and subscribe...

Tell BlogRovr what blogs you like, and it will fetch the posts from them about wherever you browse and shows you summaries that you can read right on the page. BlogRovr is ready to fetch posts from blogs you pick. When any blogs you have subscribed to have posts about the page you’re browsing,...

Under what grounds can you defend in the court a company’s policy disallowing “dating” relationships in the workplace or risk termination. At our company, we don’t disallow dating relationships, and there is no mention of “Conflicts of interest” in our handbook. We...

This article has an unsual twist on new hire training. I sure got alot of it. During the first break of the training session, when I happened to look up from my laptop, I noticed that one of the trainees was sitting there with her face beet-red. I asked her if she’d learned anything good and...

If you realize how potent social networks are to promoting your business, then your MySpace profile is one of the most important things for your business. Identify new customers and profitable niche markets Generate more traffic to all of your websites Build a targeted friends list and email list Increase...

Absolutely Not! I spend my time reading and critically commenting on other blogs. I basically look for blogs that have a high page, such as a PR 6. Generally, the higher the page rank the higher the traffic ranking in Alexa. The second criteria is that the blog needs to have interesting content for me...

With more than $351 billion dollars in revenue, the magazine ranks Wal-Mart slightly ahead of the energy giant. Wal-Mart is on top for the fifth time in six years. read more | digg story AKPC_IDS += "175,";Popularity: 5% [?]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Wal-Mart dethrones Exxon on Fortune 500 MegaSuperGiant...

A West Virginia metal manufacturer’s high rate of injuries and illnesses among employees prompted an OSHA inspection that revealed serious and potentially life-threatening hazards for the workers, the agency announced today. OSHA found 23 safety and health violations at the company’s Parkersburg...