We are because it isn't.
For those of you who do not live in Chicago, Malört* is a wormwood-based schnapps. Yum, right?
Same with discussing politics in the workplace – it can leave a nasty taste in your mouth**.
Robin Shea lays out nine tips for keeping workplace political discussion under control.
* Full disclosure – I had Malört ice cream this past weekend at Black Dog Gelato.
** “Malört tastes like a baby aspirin wrapped in a grapefruit peel, bound with rubber bands and then soaked in well gin.” — Sam Mechling, marketing director for Jeppson’s Malört, to Inked magazine.
NATURAL DISASTER FAQs for EMPLOYERS (emphasis mine). Forty-four pages, 15,000 words.
Prepare, prevent, respond, recover – Fisher Phillips covers it all:
- Military leave and emergency workers
- FMLA
- Unemployment compensation
- Workplace safety issues
- Retirement plans
- Group health plan administration
- Special COBRA issues
- HIPPA privacy requirements
- Workplace donations to natural disaster victims
- Labor relations
- Workers' compensation
- Immigration law
- Plant closing laws
Remote worker safety (without holding their shirt)
August 29th, 2019
Juli Jenkins at LMC Insurance and Risk Management
Everyone wants to feel (and be) safe, including remote workers.
And OSHA says you are responsible for the safety conditions regardless of their location. So how to reduce everyone's risk?
Juli Jenkins helps you put together a plan, including:
- plan ahead
- get employees involved
- proper workspaces.
Taking a page from the professional sporting leagues, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) decided the call that they made on the expiration date when they last printed the I-9 was in fact not correct.
Therefore, they simply changed the call. Wouldn't life be more agreeable if we could all do that.
Elizabeth Coonan explains.
When and how to pay wages
August 29th, 2019
Jill S. Kirila, Shennan Harris
Squire Patton Boggs
When to pay wages There is no federal law that governs the frequency of wage payments. Employers are cautioned that the chart on the following page contains only the major requirements for wage payments. Other requirements may apply. Specific types of employment and employment of minors may be subject to ad...
