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Under 50 Employees? Think you are safe from the ACA? Maybe not!

by Michael Haberman May 21, 2013

Tweet The Affordable Care Act (also known as the PPACA or Obama Care) goes “live” on January 1, 2014, although aspects of it are effective now. The law requires that “large” employers with 50 or more employees must provide health coverage or pay a penalty. This has been described as “Play or Pay”. (BTW, this [...]

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Three Great Tips to Make Others Feel More Important

by Michael Haberman May 19, 2013

Tweet As a manager or an HR professional it is often important to connect with employees as well as you can. Making people feel important is one good way to make that connection. Here are three great tips for making others feel important. Tip #1Take Notes These tips come from 7 Tips for Making Other [...]

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Mind Power: The Employee Skill of the Future

by Michael Haberman May 17, 2013

Tweet With the change in the nature of the economy “thinking” has become a much bigger issue. Rote, mindless work is now being taken over by robots and that will do nothing but increase. In this post I am not really talking about just the act of thinking. I am actually talking about the [...]

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That Food Benefit May Become Taxable Income

by Michael Haberman May 16, 2013

Tweet One of the benefits often mentioned for companies considered “great places to work” is the free food and drinks made available to the employees. This even gets used as a recruitment incentive to convince an employee they want to work for you. Well I have some potentially bad news for you, that free [...]

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The US DOL Fights Child Labor Violations IN OTHER COUNTRIES!

by Michael Haberman May 15, 2013

Tweet I have great news! Apparently all child labor violations in the US have been solved. We have eliminated child labor violations in the our country so now the United States Department of Labor is fighting child labor violations in other countries. US DOL International Division? Did you know that the United States Department [...]

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Two Ways to Enhance Your Power in HR

by Michael Haberman May 14, 2013

Tweet There is an ongoing struggle for respect in HR. We read about it, we hear about it, we talk about it amongst ourselves and we envy those that we perceive have it. We often wonder what we can do ourselves to get that respect. Here are two ways to enhance your power in [...]

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Take that NLRB Poster Down!

by Michael Haberman May 13, 2013

Tweet Last year the U.S. Court of Appeals delayed the implementation of the NLRB’s poster on employee rights that the NLRB was trying to require all employers to post. If you made the mistake of posting it on your bulletin board then take that NLRB poster down! It is a matter of freedom of speech [...]

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Future Friday: Technology and Employee Fitness

by Michael Haberman May 10, 2013

Tweet I was reading an interesting post on technology that started with the words “I’m writing these words at 2.5 miles per hour.” Well it was obvious this was not someone riding either a train or bus to work. Even in bad traffic 2.5 mph is a bit slow. Delving into the article revealed [...]

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May Carnival of HR

by Michael Haberman May 9, 2013

Tweet The most recent version of the Carnival of HR is posted at Robert Tanner’s Management is a Journey. Robert divided this Carnival into two sections. One is called The World of HR and includes Naomi Bloom, Steve Browne, Karin Hurt, Prasad Kurian, Anita Lettnik, Mark McCarty, Ian Welsh and yours truly. The second section [...]

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