Double Check for Virtual Call Center Employees If your call center is planning to hire agents to work from home, you have to sit up and do some homework. When you are screening the agents, you must look for discrepancies in their work experience and what kind of telemarketing services they have done. Work at home agents may have some negative intent about the data that you share with them. To keep your data safe and also to ensure that...more
Licensing clerk: You received open checks and your employee stole them- who is liable? Adv. Gill Nadel, Moran Shmilovich Recently, the Magistrate's Court of Tel Aviv discussed the liability of an employer for theft committed by one of his employees, of checks of the customs representation company. The case involved a customs representation company that hired the services of another party (a licensing clerk) to receive secondary services...more
How to Effectively Manage Employees Near and Far Agha Hasan Abedi, founder of the Bank of Credit and Commerce International, said it well: "The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work." Of course, investing in your people does produce results and is the only way to generate larger profits for your company. But there's a world of benefits beyond the most immediate effects of good performance management.Helping your people to develop their skills and contribute in a more meaningful way to the goals of the organization is a skill in itself. A skill you might find in time to cultivate for yourself.Performance management and outsourcing relationship management (ORM) are two skills that lend themselves to the structure and style of learning management system courses. Learning management system (LMS) courses in performance management and ORM help organizations to avoid the failure that often occurs in both outsourced and in-house relationships.As a manager, you might feel you know and understand your employees because of the daily interactions you have with them. Perhaps you share lunch time,...more
Employee Lawsuits, Putting a Company's Reputation at Risk Governments all over the world recognize the importance of laying down labor laws. These laws establish the foundation of employer-employee relationships and set the parameters governing such relationships so that employees' rights will be protected. Laws are put in place to...more
Time to change your Employee Time Clock Software? Your company has been using the same Employee Time Clock Software for years now. You've adapted to the system but you are starting to think that there might be a newer and better solution out there for your company. Is it time to make a change? Here are 10 items to look at that may help you...more
Handling Tricky E-Verify Situations: What To Do If E-Verify Can't Confirm Your Employee In the E-Verify process for confirming an employee's eligibility to work in the U.S., almost 4% of individuals receive an initial, tentative non-confirmation (TNC) from either the Social Security Administration (SSA) or Department of Homeland Security (DHS). This requires the employee to review the TNC notice with his or her employer and then visit the SSA or DHS office within 8 federal working days in order to resolve the non-confirmation issue.If you are the employer of someone who receives a TNC, what steps should you take to protect your company and/or support the employee during this process? Here are five common TNC scenarios and the best practices for managing them.1. An employee who received a TNC has been unable to resolve the issue after 8 days.As long as the employee can demonstrate that he/she has contacted the SSA or DHS and is actively trying to resolve the non-confirmation, the employee may not be terminated or suffer any adverse employment consequences based upon the TNC. The US agency that manages the E-Verify program, the United States Citizenship and Immigration...more
It is important that employees feel that their contributions are both valued and recognized. In the traditional top-down organizations, it is usually management that designs and implements recognition strategies for employees. Thinking of...more
Show That You Value Employees, Especially the Allergy Sufferers, With Regular Duct Cleaning Copyright (c) 2010 Alison WithersAlthough employers have a duty of responsibility to their building's occupants under Health and Safety employees will...more
Buildings and office spaces are part of an entrepreneurs business investments. These are important in fulfilling the demands of business production. In Minnesota, some entrepreneurs do everything to maintain a clean and presentable office for their...more
Sometimes the best way to understand a situation is to learn from similar experiences.The following story is a hypothetical situation of an employer who needs to think about the best way to end a working relationship because of attendance issues....more
An employee benefits administration company in Tulsa is basically a PEO or Professional Employer Organization that takes care of administering and managing all related responsibilities of employee benefits. Its cost-effective and flexible service...more
Ways to Assess Employee Competencies When you assess employee competencies, you can do so in a wide variety of ways. But then you need to find out a way which is going to suite your origination the best. Different approaches will provide you...more