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Patrick Lencioni, author of the New York Times Best-Seller, “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team,” asserted, “Meetings are usually terrible, but they shouldn’t be.” Do your managers grumble when the infamous calendar invite for a company meeting invades their email inboxes? Do you find meetings monopolizing your calendar and preventing productivity? On average, office workers spend twenty-one percent (21%) of their work day in meetings, of which twenty-five percent (25%) is deemed as “wasted” in their opinion.
Recently, the HR Advisors for HR Partners attended the Kansas Society of Human Resources Management (“KSSHRM”) Employment Law and Benefits Conference. This conference discussed upcoming and changing laws, which may impact your workplace.
The following should be kept in consideration as we move forward through 2019. Please note that this list is not all-inclusive.
Tax season is typically the most vulnerable time for organizations when it comes to the potential of being scammed. Cyber criminals continue to use ever changing technology to push the limits regarding identity theft, data breaches, compromising business emails and engaging in business email spoofing scams.
The Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”) is warning about phishing emails involving payroll direct deposits, wire transfers, Form W-2 scams, among other fraudulent activity. Additionally, the Social Security Administration (“SSA”) warns about recent scams involving social security numbers. This criminal activity can present itself in many forms, including impersonations of a company representative, employee or executive “sent by” email correspondence or by phone. These communications are typically requesting personal or financial information.
Ghosting. The word sends chills up any recruiting manager’s spine. An employer has been ‘ghosted’ when a candidate blows off scheduled job interviews, accepts an offer of employment but does not show up on the first day, or even vanishes from existing positions, all without giving notice. A tight labor market means greater competition within the candidate pool. Locally, many of our clients have experienced ghosting. Candidates are displaying this behavior during the initial phases of recruitment, as well as when expected to report for orientation. In some industries, ghosting is as prevalent as fifty percent (50%).
Typically, during this time of the year, school preparation and readiness is underway, employees are settling back into their daily work routines following vacations and most employers are preparing to file their EEO-1 reports. This year, however, may have a different impact on that so-called end-of-summer routine.
Employers with one hundred (100) employees or more, and federal contractors with fifty (50) or more employees and $50,000 in contracts must file EEO-1 reports with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). The EEO-1 report accounts for all employees by job category, ethnicity, race and gender. The EEO-1 filing period typically commences at the beginning of July and concludes the end of September. This summer there is no required reporting. Instead and per Former President Obama’s announcement of the EEOC-led EEO-1 revisions in January of 2016, “new” EEO-1 reports are to be filed by March 31, 2018. This is, of course, unless the Trump Administration plans to repeal these “new” revisions.
We appreciate your business, and we wish you nothing but the best for Christmas and the New Year holidays.
2024 will be an epic year and we can’t wait to work with you to continue the magic.
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