Editor’s Note

While everyone was busy enjoying their last week of summer vacation, the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB/Board) on August 27 made a decision and ruling that has energized “labor” and shaken up “business.” Mere 73 workers at one relatively small contract service organization brought about a historical change in NLRB joint employer and collective bargaining law!!!

Who’s Your Daddy? I Mean Your Employer: The Mouse That Roared

Recent regulatory ruling could impact every organization that utilizes outsourced contract labor or contracted services!!! This likely includes your organization!

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Employee Time And Attendance Shortages: Managerial nightmares

Take a second. Lean back. And relax. The big fish you’ve been trying to take on as clients have finally relented. All your sacrifices in the past year have been validated – your trust in your team justified.

Implementing Global Absence Management System: Four top recommendations

Absence Management enables organizations to automate the processes for planning and compensating paid and unpaid time off for a multinational workforce

9 Tips To Manage Difficult Employees: Use a positive outlook and be a better manager

Staff Management Whether just managing staff, their rota, their shifts or scheduling them, there are always those members of staff that are difficult to manage. Some are just BAD EGGS and it doesn't matter what we do, they will always be difficult.

Pareto's Revenge And Workforce Planning: The need to include measures of productivity in team models

In many of our organizations, the staffing dynamic has fundamentally changed. The restructuring, reductions in force, "less with more" and other focus points that organizations have had over the past 7+ years have decreased the stability (and consequently the predictability) of the workforce.

Do You Take All Your Leaves Each Year?: One million employees don’t!

More than a million workers will fail to take their full entitlement of leave this year, according to a report. It found workers will give up a total of 6.2 million days of annual leave, with the average of unused holiday standing at five days. This equates to a potential £500 million of ‘free’ work for their employers, which, according to an economist will boost the output of the economy by about two per cent.

‘Sharing Economy’ vis-à-vis Labor Laws: HR solutions need to adapt to them

“In the new wave of ‘SHARING ECONOMY’, how much liberty you can take if you have a new business model that may not come under existing LABOR LAWS? Can a start-up play with fundamental HR principals?” We recently discovered an important HR LESSON that can be found in the lawsuits against Uber and Lyft.

Is Time and Attendance Software A Necessity?: 5 reasons why you need it

If you're still having employees punch a time clock, you may find yourself being targeted by companies touting time and attendance software as the best thing since sliced bread. However, if your system works, why change?