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Conducting an HR Audit – Review, Identify, Improve

CCI Consulting

Essentially, HR audits are an efficient tool used to improve processes like recruitment, retention, onboarding, training, salary and compensation, payroll, performance management, and many more common practices within an HR department. The word “audit” generally elicits the idea that an aspect of the operation is doing something wrong.

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Updated Wage Theft Notice Released

HRWatchdog

Federal and California law requires new employees to receive several pamphlets and notices about laws and programs like workers’ compensation, workplace sexual harassment, state disability insurance and paid family leave. colloquially known as the Wage Theft Notice ) — will be updated for January 1, 2024, to reflect updates from two new laws.

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HR Professional Day 2023: Celebrating Those Who Manage, Maintain the HR Lifecycle

HRWatchdog

California wage and hour laws are some of the strictest (if not the most strict) in the nation and require that you provide meal and rest breaks to your nonexempt employees — at least one 30-minute uninterrupted, unpaid meal break before the fifth hour of work has begun and one 10-minute paid rest break for every four hours worked.

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How to Handle Workplace Investigations: A Guide for California Employers

Zenefits

The Golden State has the largest state wage-and-hour state enforcement agency in the country. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that women at several of its California stores were subjected to almost daily sexual harassment by a general manager and shift leader. Many of these are not in place in other states.

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Stop Spying on Social Media

HRExecutive

Protected activity is defined as two or more employees who are acting together to improve issues such as wages, hours and working conditions. Through social media, employers may learn information regarding a candidate’s race, age, religion, disability or other protected classification,” says LaKisha M. He has since been rehired.)

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Managing Employees’ Online Behavior

Affinity HR Group

Train these employees on proper communication skills and how to maximize the impact on the platforms. Ensure that they are regularly trained on non-discrimination and are up-to-date on acceptable and unacceptable language and imagery. Require employees to provide current user names and passwords to management and IT for monitoring.

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It’s time to review (or create) your document retention policy

Business Management Daily

Worried that your company might not have a particular document on hand if the IRS conducted an audit? They create a document retention policy that clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long. Courts and government agencies frown upon individual employees selectively keeping or tossing important documents.

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