Social Media and Onboarding

GINA, Social Media, And Onboarding Part of the onboarding process (on the acculturation side) has to do with getting to know your new employees. There are lots of ways to do this. You can have ice breaking exercises during orientation, take the entire department out for lunch sometime during the new hire’s first week, and [...]

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Onboarding Accommodations

Are You Making Onboarding Accommodations? According to a recent article from USA Today, claims related to violation of the ADA are on the upswing. In 2009, over 21,000 charges were filed against U.S. employers by workers with disabilities. The accusations include unlawful firing, discrimination in promotions, and lack of reasonable accommodations. About 20% of these [...]

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Open Source HR Software

Is Open Source Onboarding In Your Future? Workforce.com has a new article up about open-source software in the HR field. A couple of vendors are now offering HRIS products based on this type of non-proprietary code. As you would expect, there are pros and cons of open source solutions. Let’s take a look at a [...]

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Electronic I-9 Regulations

Electronic I-9 Rules Clarified By DHS It’s only taken the Department of Homeland Security 4 years to issue the agency’s final regulations on electronic storage for I-9 forms. The wait hasn’t necessarily a bad thing. Technology has changed plenty just in the past few years and the DHS has responded by making more options available [...]

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ICE Unveils New Strategic Plan

ICE Unveils New Strategic Plan The folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement are really feeling their Wheaties this year. They’ve published a 7 page plan for how they’re going to fight crime and single handedly pull the U.S. from the brink of chaos over the next 5 years. OK, that’s an exaggeration. The document ICE [...]

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Is Your Onboarding Good Enough

Is Your Onboarding Good Enough? In July, Workforce.com ran a story on “good enough HR“. This is a play on the idea of “good enough” parenting. Basically, some moms and dads are rejecting the idea that they have to be super-parents. Their kids will turn out just fine with plenty of love, a decent education, [...]

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Non-compete Agreements in HR Policy

Whose Policies Should You Honor In Onboarding? A recent California Court case has brought up an interesting question for employers. To what extent should you honor the policies created by a new hire’s previous employer? Creteguard, Inc. found out the hard way that they don’t just need to review their own policies for adherence to [...]

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Conditional Hiring and Onboarding

Conditional Hiring And Onboarding Attorney John P. Mahoney has a blog post up about the challenges of getting and keeping a security clearance for jobs at the federal level. The process of requisitioning and carrying out the type of extensive background check required to be granted clearance can be lengthy. Occasionally, this means employees are [...]

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Military Service Member Onboarding

Service Member Onboarding and Re-Onboarding This week, Workforce.com has reprinted a very in-depth article from 2007 about the obligations employers have toward workers who may be called to active duty in the military. With combat troops finally coming home from Iraq, this is a good time to review policies regarding how to best serve workers [...]

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Onboarding At-Will Employees

Onboarding At Will Employees – Managing Expectations If your company’s workforce is not unionized and you don’t otherwise create contracts of employment for workers, your organization probably falls under the category of an at-will workplace. This is understood in all 50 states as an agreement between both parties (employer and employee) that either party can [...]

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