HR Minute for Busy Executives – Employee vs Independent Contractor
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California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones awarded $32 million in grants to district attorneys across 36 counties in the state to combat workers’ compensation fraud. The grants, funded through employer assessments, support law enforcement efforts in investigating and prosecuting workers’ compensation insurance fraud. “Last fiscal year 2012-13, my department received more…
When Steve Enna and Dennis Wooten, owners of EW Partners (now HR Your Way), a Pleasanton, CA based HR Firm were ready to begin their transition to retirement they had clear goals – to find a way to ensure the successful brand they had worked so hard to develop would…
2014 – The Year of the Great Balancing Act In 2014 companies expect growth and increased hiring. Competition for key talent is heating up. Growth and hiring surges are causing big concerns about retention as employees leave for greener pastures. Companies are cautiously optimistic about 2014, with 72 percent expecting their financial situation to…
Sandra Dickerson and Cindy McKellar become Co-CEOs of EW Business Partners It is with great pleasure that we announce that two great HR companies, Your People Professionals (“YPP”) and EW Partners, will join forces to offer a broad range of HR Consulting and Outsourcing Services. Our teams share a passion…
Most companies are required to post their annual OSHA injury summary (300A) by February 1, 2014. The summary must be posted from 2/1/14 to 4/30/14 and it must be posted whether or not there were recorded injuries. If your company had ten (10) or fewer employees at all times during…
How To Attract Top Talent That Will Stay Is your strategy for finding and keeping good people more like a fishing net or a magnet? Sounds odd, but the analogy is truly illustrative of the changes that innovative companies, large and small, are making in 2014. Not only…
Important Changes Effective in 2014 While certainly not a complete list, here are several important changes to payroll/HR rules and regulations that may affect your business in 2014. And, many of them need to be paid attention to prior to your first payroll of January. HEALTH COVERAGE COST INFORMATION…
OVERVIEW A federal district court did not abuse its discretion by awarding almost $698,000 in attorneys’ fees and costs to a former United Parcel Service Inc. employee who won a $27,280 sex discrimination verdict under California law, but did not prevail on age discrimination, retaliation or state tort claims and…
If we can’t laugh at ourselves, then we are taking ourselves too seriously. Enjoy! e-mail one Attention: Human Resources Joe Smith, my assistant programmer, can always be found hard at work in his cubicle. Joe works independently, without wasting company time talking to colleagues. Joe never thinks twice about assisting…