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Go ahead and pull those old employee handbooks out of the trash!

The Employer Handbook

Along with obliterating Browning-Ferris Industries and reinstating the prior joint-employer standard — more on this next week — the Board established a new standard for workplace policies with this opinion in The Boeing Company and Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace, IFPTE Local 2001.

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Let’s be clear about this: a hangman’s noose is RACIST

The Employer Handbook

I write a blog called The Employ er Handbook. Indeed, in 2001, a New York federal court described explored the history of the hangman’s noose before describing it as “among the most repugnant of all racist symbols, because it is itself an instrument of violence.” Now, you know me. I’m a management-side lawyer.

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Vacation Rules! (All Work and No Play Makes Workers Leave Your Employ)

HR Daily Advisor

How many pages of your handbook are dedicated to the details of the days your employees don’t have to be at work? Now, how many handbook pages are dedicated to their acceptable behavior at work? After all, the law doesn’t require employee handbooks, either, and I certainly think those are a must, too.).

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Positive Psychology Strategies for Keeping Stress at Bay Through the Ongoing COVID-19 Crisis

Thrive Global

Laughter and joy can be among our most valuable tools for building resilience (Bachorowski & Owren, 2001; Mahony et al., A prospective study of resilience and emotions following the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001 Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 84 , 365–376. References. Bachorowski, J.-A.,

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7 Top HR Mistakes Companies Make

Insperity

HR mistake #1: Outdated employee handbook. Every business, no matter how small, should have an up-to-date employee handbook. The employee handbook should be updated about every two years and all employees should sign an acknowledgment form stating that they received the publication and will abide by its policies.

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What Burnout Is and Why It Isn’t Confined To The Occupational Sphere

Workplace Psychology

Maslach, Schaufeli, & Leiter, 2001; Schaufeli & Taris, 2005; Schaufeli, Desart, & De Witte, 2020) have extended the definition of work to also include athletes, volunteers, and even students. The Oxford handbook of organizational well-being (pp. Researchers who support burnout as an occupational phenomenon (e.g.,

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It’s July 1. Happy Bobby Bonilla Day! ??????

The Employer Handbook

Casual baseball fans may not remember Bobby Bonilla, a 57-year-old man who hasn’t played professional baseball since 2001. I ask this question because, today, the New York Mets are paying $1,193,248.20 to a former third baseman named Bobby Bonilla. You see, this isn’t the first time that the team has written a check to Mr.