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21 Types of Employment: Your Hire-To-Retire Guide

AIHR

Examples include an electrician’s apprentice who learns wiring techniques from a licensed electrician or a carpenter’s apprentice who learns woodworking or construction skills. Common benefits include health insurance, retirement plans, PTO, and sick leave. Here are 21 employee classifications you can explore: 1.

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This HR leader is applying her career lessons to finding and retaining workers in construction

HR Brew

While Gen Zers are increasingly turning to trades jobs, there’s still a shortage of these roles, which is only expected to worsen as more skilled trades professionals retire in the coming years. A good example is, we do quarterly check-ins here at Mascaro…instead of two big reviews a year.

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Lawsuits targeting employers’ work with PBMs put HR on alert

HR Brew

Several lawsuits highlight employers role negotiating health plan contracts with pharmacy benefit managers ( PBMs ) that include pricey prescription drugs, and seek to hold them accountable under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). The most recent lawsuit was filed by JPMorgan employees on Mar.

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Why employers are leaning into benefits to stand out in the job market

HR Brew

The most common benefits mentioned in Indeed job postings as of May were medical and insurance (45%), followed by retirement (37%), and paid time-off (34%). The gig economy offers one example of how this trend is playing out, as some companies tout certain benefits for workers who don’t typically receive such perks through their jobs.

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5 Culture Trends for 2019

As we approach 2019, major shifts in the work environment will continue to affect the ways companies do business. Companies that are looking to attract, engage, and retain top talent should leverage these trends to create workplaces where employees thrive.

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An SMB Employer’s Guide to Streamlining Open Enrollment

Extensis

Open enrollment is a designated period each year when employees can review, adjust, or select their benefits, including health insurance, retirement plans, and other perks their employer offers. For example, you could aim to increase plan participation or improve employee engagement. How will you achieve that goal?

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Knowledge Management: Add Project Management To the Process

HR Bartender

An example of tacit knowledge could be leadership skills. How will we know when it’s time to change / retire the system? I know we don’t like talking about retiring a system that we just implemented but things do get old and outdated. According to IBM, there are three types of knowledge: tacit, implicit, and explicit.