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Protective Clothing - What Should And Employer Be Providing

Protective safety equipment is essential for any working environment where equipment, machinery or the risk of injury exists. It is a commonly overlooked part of site maintenance and care. Providing personal protective equipment, usually referred to as PPE is necessary for any workplace. The range of PPE available is extensive and it’s important to […]

Health and Wellness on the Job

Work can be stressful at the best of times, so longer hours on the job often mean more stress and, as a result, more work-related injuries. These can include muscle and joint pain resulting from long hours sitting in the same position, repetitive strain injuries from performing (as the name suggests) repetitive tasks, work errors […]

5 Ways to Assess and Improve Your Employees’ Emotional Health

Emotional health is a state of wellness that comes from understanding and acknowledging our emotions and finding appropriate ways to express them. As employees, we often bring emotional problems from our childhood or current family life into the workplace because we haven’t dealt with them effectively outside of work. This can seriously damage workplace relationships […]

Create a Healthy Workplace with the Help of Alternative Therapies

In Chinese, the word for crisis has two characters. One character is for “problem,” the other for “opportunity.” As absenteeism, disability claims and employee turnover increase, we find ourselves in a workplace health-care crisis.
In a 2001 study entitled, Increasing Participation in Corporate Wellness Programs: A Segmentation Study of Employee Differences, Paula Haynes of the […]

Do Employee Assistance Programs Work?

When a workers personal appearance declines and he or she is calling in sick more than usual, especially on the Monday after payday, it will be a series of red flags that should prompt some action on the part of management.
However working with troubled employees without the benefit of an employee assistance program can be […]

Holistic Employee Assistance Is Good for the Bottom Line

We spend a large part of our lives at work. We make friends, network with colleagues and plan our retirement years based on our active lives in the workplace. But for all the time we spend at work, how healthy is the work climate?
The answer to this question has become the focus for a […]

Saving the Small Business: Professional Employer Organizations

A professional employer organization, or “PEO”, is an entity that provides a spectrum of administrative services to businesses that are too small or just don’t want to do it themselves. These services include payroll processing, workers’ compensation insurance, employee benefits administration and human resources services.
They are able to do what they do via a process […]

Worksite Wellness Programs Now as Important as Cost and Workforce Issues

Work site wellness for their employees, employers are discovering, is good for the health of their businesses as well. Health and wellness programs help to cut the costs associated with poor employee health, which include absenteeism, loss of productivity and poor work quality.
A recent Hewitt Associates survey of over 500 US companies […]

Labor Overtime And Pay Not Required In Trainee Programs

Overtime, straight time and other compensation for entering a trainee programs is often an area of litigation. Training is often an area of litigation where overtime claims are filed to demand not only payment for overtime, but for straight time when wages are not paid, because the rules are often misinterpreted.
Overtime lawsuits […]

Inviting A Workers Attorney To Sue Over Labor Overtime Or Commission Schemes

To forego concerns about labor overtime, overtime claims, wage claims and to insure employee performance businesses often implement creative commission structures designed to benefit the motivated employee and the employer. California overtime and compensation laws are generally very protective of workers and the legal system for the most part protects workers against creative commission schemes. […]