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This number is anticipated to rise in 2009 and the job market is not expected to recover until 2011, according to Challenger Gray & Christmas, a Chicago-based outplacement firm. These odds are not in your favor, but you can ... more >>Law: MGLC.93H; Res. 201 CMR 17:00 et seq. Alfred B. Fowler, Attorney at Law Effective March 1, 2010 employers (with employees residing in Massachusetts) who own, license, store, or maintain personal information about an employee who is a Massachusetts resident, regardless of the employer’s business location must institute special security measures. For purposes of the regulation, personal information includes first and last name (first initial plus last name) in combination with a social security number, driver’s license, or state I.D. number (?) or a number to an account held in a financial institution (bank, brokerage, savings, etc.) or a credit/debit card number (with or without PIN number) which would allow someone access to the account. Employers with this kind of information in their records, whether on paper or held electronically, are subject to the following rules: 1. Encryption. ...more >> I have written here fairly often about the research by Harvard Business School's Boris Groysberg on the virtues and limits of star employees. I believe my last post described has delightful research that shows -- I especially love his research showing that firms should steal superstar women, not men. It turns out that when star men move to another firm, they tend to a lot worse in the new setting. In contrast, star woemn tend to sustain their performance when they go to another firm. Groysberg suggests this difference is explained because women are more skilled at establishing new relationships and less likely to engage in dysfunctional internal competition in their new firms. Boris's new research is equally fascinating, a while back, he sent me an article ...more >>
It is amazing how similar many conversations I have every day with brokers are to these stages. Denial is not a river and I have had some funny ones here often being accused of making up the rules that are required. In fact I had one women who did not believe my description of breaches and reporting and told me to “Prove it!”. ... more >> So much discussion and passion around the recent "Best of" lists that have been floating around the HR Blogosphere. HR Examiner's John Sumser has definitely touched on a hot topic within the HR Space with his lists: Top 100 HR Influencers,Top 25 Most Influential Online Recruiters, etc. Also, check out 25 Best HR Experts, Blogs and Influencers to Track in 2010 (seems Steve Levy didn't make this one either, must be a conspiracy...). The FOT hosted the weekly HR Talk Show - The HR Happy Hour, this past week just to discuss this topic (check out the archive - here). I tend to think of all of these lists as just that - lists. You come up with something you want to measure - let's say Jessica Lee's Top 10 HR People She Wouldn't Mind Never Seeing Again - then you pick the 10. Should I feel overly excited or sad that I made JLee's list - probably not - but then again, I'm not sure who might be reading the list and think of me differently because I'm on it. ...
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I have written several posts on what it means to be strategic in your approach to any communication effort, whether it’s social or traditional, internal or external. Others have taken up the cause, most recently Shannon Paul who elegantly reinforced my insistence that being strategic means you align your efforts with your organization’s (or client’s) business ...more >>
There is a great resource on the IIABA website on this and other technology issues specifically for agents, ...more >> Let's play a word game: ... more >>"The [Federal Healthcare Service] is inching closer to doing something it's discussed for years -- ending Saturday [health care] delivery." The Post Office is a quasi-government service tasked with delivering the mail, and "[n]either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their A study suggests that an experimental drug may modestly extend the lives of men with advanced prostate cancer who are no longer responding to other treatments. more >>
WASHINGTON, March 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on President Obama's remarks at the White House on health insurance reform legislation, which... more >>
The American Cancer Society revised its guidelines for prostate cancer screening on Wednesday. more >>
...end. Okay, that doesn't mean that it should be sub-divided into three groups. But so it goes -- MetLife released its Boomers in the Middle... more >>
say they are entitled to schedule changes, access to windows and other modifications. Recent legal rulings are prompting human-resources experts to warn about the need to take the depression seriously. 'Some people brush you off, saying you're just in a more >>
Continuous Screening May Create Issues for Employers Workforce Management Mary Massad, director of recruiting for Administaff, a professional employer organization , does not advocate infinity screening for client companies. ... Special Report on Background Checking—Burden of Proof Workforce Management ... more >>
Sebelius, who scuffled successfully with the industry years ago as a state insurance commissioner, is taking aim at rising premium rates as she joins President Barack Obama's push for an overhaul of... more >>
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In his letter to congressional leadership on Tuesday, President Obama-under fire from the GOP for not better addressing tort reform in current healthcare legislation-called for funding alternative demonstration projects, such as health courts, for resolving medical malpractice disputes. Health courts, virtually unknown in the U.S. but used in other countries, could provide an alternative to jury trials in current medical malpractice cases. more >>
Mashable (blog) 7 Essential Online HR Resources for Your Small Business Mashable (blog) There are several well-written human resources blogs that offer pertinent, common-sense advice. Two of my favorites are Ask a Manager and Evil HR Lady. ... more >>
CLAYMONT, Del.----CIGNA International, a world leader in expatriate benefits, now offers employers an international health assessment for their globally mobile workforce. The health assessment is a preventive tool that helps identify expatriate employees’ health risks early before they can lead to illness and potentially jeopardize an employee’s assignment. more >>
I'm here today on a mission of mercy. From Downtown. From Mitch and Murray. I'm here to talk about the Manager Pass-Through. Don't know what the Manager Pass-Through is? Put that coffee down, you'll recognize it soon enough. The Manager Pass-Through is what managers of people do when they don't want to own tough or difficult news with employees. It's been alive and well in every organization I've ever been a part of, and it's alive and well in your company. Rather than owning bad news or a difficult conversation with an employee, managers look for an easier out. You explain deflective reasons why the action you're requesting is necessary. God forbid, you end up using terms like "them" and "we" to describe what's going on. "Them" and "we" (and words that mean the same thing) are at the core of the manager pass-through. Rather than explaining to your team member why a particular course of ...
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Below you will see a total catalog of every single tag that has been generated in good times and bad, scandal, recession, recovery, slow days, crazy days, the more >> I read an article that highlighted the correlation between unemployment and cheating men. As unemployment numbers rise so do the percentage of men who cheat on their significant other. I know you are shocked. Too be fair, stats on women are the same. If you don’t believe me, check out exhibits A and B. So this got me wondering about the entire concept of cheating during this economic slump, especially in the workplace. Then I have to ask, is it bad or even wrong? OK--Cheating on your Wife/Husband...whole 'nuther league. I'm not a fan of it and don't endorse it (it makes me quite sad actually). But before you say, “I have never nor will I ever cheat my company”, as an HR pro ask yourself these questions: Have I helped a coworker with a resume? Have I ever not told supervisors when their employees came to me asking to review their non-compete? Have I encouraged coworkers to join professional networking organizations? Have I advised employees who have topped ...
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more >> Earthtimes (press release) Boss tweeting a no-no, many women say Boston Globe That's one finding from a new national survey released today by Liberty Mutual Group, a Boston-based global insurance company. Specifically, the survey is ... Liberty Mutual Releases First-Ever Comprehensive Survey of Online Behaviors ... Business Wire (press release) all 7 news articles » more >>
The convention for creating financial opportunities is evolving and changing the way we seed prospects, promote our expertise and prowess, and connect with those who can help us learn and advance through the facilitation of strategic and mutually beneficial alliances. Digital capitalization is laying a foundation for expanding the need to cultivate and participate, not only in the real world, but also in the online networks and communities that can benefit us personally and professionally. In an era of democratized publishing and equalized influence, it can be said that engagement and participation are a new, powerful and effective form of “un” marketing. At the very least, this is an epoch of empathy. Social capital is a strong ally, an elite catalyst ...more >> Sally Johnstone Sally Johnstone of the US is a big fan of medical tourism. She feels that prices for many procedures in the US are prohibitively expensive.
21, 2010, the SEC asserts Assurant used improper accounting methods to record payments that the company received. The SEC charges Assurant with... more >>
improve the time it took to respond to customers, Beavers says. Additionally, the tool has been useful for onboarding new associates, helping them make contacts more quickly and catch up on company news by searching through past conversations, Beaver
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I knew it wouldn’t take long for an enterprising broker who was compliant to take a major account away from a competitor!!
Two weeks after the HITECH law took affect if you are asking “What Risk Assessment?”, then you really are still asleep at the wheel on your obligations until HIPAA HITECH.
Two seemingly evergreen threads have converged in my mind: First, is social media measurable? And second, the notion that soon, there will be no use for social media directors (or managers or coordinators) in organizations.
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