Employment laws deal with the rules and regulations concerned with both employees and employers in the workplace. They are made to ensure the protection of employees’ rights at workplace. They also help the employers to be aware of their obligations to their employees. A large number of litigation are seen every year with respect to [...]
Tag: Employee Relations
Certain Laws for Drug Testing at Workplace
Many employers have made it a necessity to perform employee drug tests. An employee drug test involves test performed on job applicants and current employees. However, it is a risky practice. Certain federal and state laws have been evolved for balancing employee privacy against the employer’s right for maintaining a drug-free workplace. Employee drug tests [...]
Employee Retention Techniques
Employees are a valuable asset to any organization. It is essential to protect this vital resource as talented and motivated employees play a crucial role in overall growth and success of the organization. Focusing on employee retention techniques can positively impact the organization as it increases employee productivity, performance, quality of work, profits, and reduces [...]
Impact Of Drug Abuse On Employer
As per the employer’s health plan the cost involved in substance abuse treatment might be less, but the drug and alcohol problems cost the United States approximately $276 billion per year. Most of these expenses are produced due to lost work productivity related to substance abuse (including absenteeism and poor job performance) and health care [...]
What if your employee is using Internet for his personal use?
As of now, in every organization there are computers and Internets. And if your employee is using internet for his personal use and you may not want your employees using company equipment for their own use but could be in a situation where you haven’t found a way to effectively manage this policy. If you [...]
Encouraging Disabled Employees
Everyone has sympathy towards disabled people and some organizations works for betterment of disabled person’s living standards. Different disability awareness programs are conducted for solving the misunderstandings of employers having in employing disabled but the perception of employers has not changed. Some special programs are created by some organizations for increasing the disability awareness. Lack [...]
How Effective Is Work Place Drug Testing?
Though employee drug testing has many benefits, the program has always been controversial between employers and employees. One of the more controversial employment practices is the testing of job applicants and employees. It might be the privacy issues or accuracy issues, but employee drug testing isn’t liked by many people, especially the employees. And this [...]
Mass Layoffs Increase Jobless Beneficiaries
The claims of unemployment benefits are reported to reach record numbers. The increase in mass layoffs and the decreased hiring in firms all over the country has peaked the number of people turning to the federal offices asserting the unemployment benefits. According to the Labor Department, the claims of unemployment insurance have reached the 4.78 [...]
Reasons and benefits For Employee Training and Development
In organizational development, the related field of Training and Development (T & D) deals with the design and delivery of learning to improve performance, skills, or knowledge within organizations. In some organizations the term Learning & Development is used instead of Training and Development in order to emphasize the importance of learning for the individual [...]