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How to Negotiate Severance: Tips and Strategies for the Modern Workforce

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Kogut clarifies that employees are only “due” severance if it is promised in an employment contract, handbook or policy. Most employees who lose their jobs are likely “ at will ” employees—those who can be dismissed without any legal requirement for cause. Dewan agrees. “Don’t sign anything immediately.

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5 Long-Term Financial Goals and How to Achieve Them

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In this article, we’ll go over examples of some long-term financial goals, as well as some tips to help you get started. Popular examples of long-term financial goals to start saving for your future include: 1. However, most people get started by creating estate planning documents like a will and taking out life insurance policies.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

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For example, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires that employers must keep personnel records for one year. Recruitment documents Human resources departments should retain documents related to the hiring process, especially if you need to refer back to them later. Why is that?

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

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It’s important to pay attention to the business matters at hand along with their legal aspects and personalities, he adds. Create policy for the event that a new innovation stems from the partnership. An example of a relationship that succeeded after a tweak was our agreement with the mini-storage company PODS. Win-win-win.

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Is AB5 the End of the Gig Economy? The Quick Answer: No

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This is a more stringent set of rules than was in place prior to AB5 (for those interested in legal geekery, the prior rules are referred to as the Borello factors ). Second, many gig economy companies ( Uber is a good example ) are claiming their independent contractors pass the ABC test. This is not correct.

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Workplace Harassment and Bullying

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am not a lawyer and this is not considered legal advice in any way, but we recently had a lawyer come to speak to us about workplace harassment and bullying and it really cleared up a few things for me. Don't they think their employer or other employees who they might be friends with can see this?

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Procrastination at Work: How to Practice Better Time Management

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Technology-related procrastination is relatively easy to stop by implementing a no-phone policy during the workday. Examples include: Gossiping with co-workers. These are all examples of avoiding work without the use of technology. How can you remedy this issue at your organization? Taking too many smoke or snack breaks.