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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Setting up employee personnel files is an important part of the recordkeeping process. However, sometimes people mistakenly think of these files as a catch-all for an individual’s paperwork. Rather, understand that general personnel files serve a distinct purpose. What to include in an employee’s personnel file.

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How To Successfully Combat Workplace Bullying And Harassment To Foster A Safe Work Environment

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Workplace bullying, according to the Workplace Bullying Institute, is repeated, health-harming mistreatment by one or more employees. Workplace bullying and harassment can happen in both in-person or remote workplaces, affecting the productivity and mental health of workers. It also includes acts of violence.

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

BMT Office Administration

While dealing with lots of paperwork doesn’t rank as most HR professionals’ favorite task, proper recordkeeping for employee personnel files is a must for any organization. In addition, if an employee is involuntarily let go, their employee file must be kept for one year following the termination date. Why is that?

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Tax Planning for Freelancers: 5 Strategic Moves To Make Now To Avoid Tax Pain Next Year

Allwork

While the dust from the 2023 tax filing season has long since settled, if you are a freelance worker, independent contractor , or digital nomad, now isn’t the time to forget about your taxes. While celebrating U.S. Part of that process starts with taking notes on how you work, for how many hours, and from where.

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Retrieve Your Files With Ease

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise Retrieve Your Files With Ease By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, November 05, 2008 Filed Under: MS-Access , MS-Excel , Organize , Productivity D o you have quite a bit of filing to do? B eing able to retrieve the data is more important than an organized alphabetized file drawer.

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Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - How to Use Both For Optimal.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Work With Stephanie « Cause and Effect - Productivity is an Action, Not a Result @QuietSpacing | Main | Organize Your Ideas and Watch Them Unfold » Planner Or Tickler (1-31) File? - Sometimes I wonder if I am duplicating my efforts by using a calendar and the tickler files. What are your thoughts in this area?

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Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds

Stephanie LH Calahan

Main | Overwhelm Busters (my buddies share their best again) » Getting Organized Helped Me Find Health and Lose 65+ Pounds  A few weeks ago my colleague Janice Simon and I were chatting on Twitter about some of the changes that I have put into place in the last 1.5 Archive Network with Steph Is This You? years or so. 

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