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How to Increase Diversity in Your Recruiting and Hiring Process
How to Add Diversity when Hiring New Employees The recruiting and hiring process is supposed to select the best candidates while deterring unqualified job seekers from applying or advancing. All too often, however, the process creates obstacles or disadvantages for qualified candidates due to their membership in a protected class. [...]
Payroll Tax Deferral Executive Order: What it Means for Your Business
Payroll Tax Deferral Executive Order There has been a lot of talk around what would be the next economic stimulus package to get approved. While many initiatives seem to be stalled on the floor, President Trump took matters into his own hands over the weekend. President Trump signed an Executive [...]
How to Create A More Engaging Workplace
Increasing Employee Engagement Most employees are not engaged at work—70% according to Gallup. This is no new trend. The combined number of unengaged and actively disengaged employees remains high from year to year, especially this year with COVID-19. Poor engagement results in less productivity, less creativity, higher absenteeism, and higher [...]
Virtual Learning: How Employers Can Accommodate Employees with Children
COVID-19 School Decisions Impacting Working Parents - What Employers Can Do Many employees are going to have to deal with the challenges of children not being able to go to school in the fall or deciding not to allow them back into the school. Either way, this creates unprecedented challenges [...]
New South Carolina Lactation Law
South Carolina Requires Lactation Breaks The South Carolina Lactation Support Act, effective July 25, 2020, requires employers to provide employees with reasonable lactation breaks and prohibits discrimination against employees for taking lactation breaks. Employers are also required to make reasonable efforts to provide a private space, other than a bathroom, [...]
What do we do if an Employee is Diagnosed with COVID-19?
Steps to Take When an Employee Tested Positive for COVID-19 First, notify other employees of potential exposure, if any, in the workplace. You should tell them that someone was diagnosed with the illness, but you should not identify which employee is sick, even if employees ask so they can gauge [...]
