Posts Tagged “employment”
Today our nation honors our veterans. Of course, considering the sacrifices that have been made since the beginning of our country by our men and women of the military, limiting it to just one day a year doesn’t nearly fulfill our obligation to those who have served. While many people serve our veterans voluntarily, there [...]
Is an employer required to give employees time off to vote? While there is no federal law, many states have laws, referred to as “state voting laws” or “state election leave laws,” which do require an employer to give employees time off to vote. Moreover, some of these state laws require that the time off [...]
Halloween can be a fun time around the office. It offers a great opportunity to create camaraderie amongst the employees, and ease the stress in a high-intensity office. Some businesses like to do a little pitch-in lunch featuring spooky themed dishes and treats while others enjoy letting their employees forget about the business dress code [...]
As companies and employers face more economic pressure to their business model, some companies may find it tempting to “cut corners” in the HR department, or turn a blind eye to potentially questionable practices. Aside from being bad business, such practices carry with it the potential for substantial legal exposure in the form of a [...]
As we in the frozen Midwest readily welcome spring’s arrival, (and those of us in Arizona brace ourselves to crank the AC up another notch), The Foster Group is preparing for the opening of the H-1B Visa season beginning April 1. If you are an employer anticipating hiring nonimmigrant foreign workers under the H-1B Visa [...]
We have heard a lot about medical marijuana. It seems like we have heard all different angles, from different people on each side, and predictions about what will happen. But, we haven’t heard much about how this might affect employers in the work place. Our HR Resolutions Team is on it, however. As HR folks [...]
