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Continue reading...22. September 2009
Employees don’t always do what’s good for them. They may work at a health-care treatment facility that handles, among other cases, cancer patients, yet some will still head outdoors to take a quick break to smoke a cancer-causing cigarette. Unhealthy employees will ultimately cause your company a hefty and ‘unhealthy’ health care bill. Wondering how to [...]
Continue reading...6. September 2009
Tony Hsieh is the CEO of the e-commerce juggernaut called Zappos.Com. He helped to start the company in 1999 as an online shoe store, and it has since expanded to all manner of other goods. Zappos has been profitable since 2006. Last year, it booked US$1 billion in gross sales (20% better than the year [...]
Continue reading...18. August 2009
Some owners / managers may not realize it, but these typical excuses for not paying overtime (detailed below) are really weak, and if you use them, you could be breaking the law: Saying that the employee is on salary. Understand that even salaried workers must be paid overtime IF their jobs meet certain exemption criteria. Put [...]
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20. December 2009
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