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Menopause gift bags and monitoring toilet breaks: why are employers getting menopause support so wrong?

Workplace Insight

This means that there is no legal obligation for employers to support employees going through the menopause unless the effects on a particular employee are so severe that they meet the definition of a disability under the Equality Act 2010 or they constitute a health and safety concern.

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SURROUND yourself with a team of experts to make you and your organization SHINE!

Office Dynamics

A meeting planner by MY definition is the go-to person within an organization – be it corporate, association or otherwise – charged with the responsibility of planning and executing a meeting or special event. Not all people who plan meetings are “meeting planners,” nor do all meeting planners start out their careers as meeting planners.

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How to overcome the downsides of contract work

Page Personnel

But there are some definite downsides to contracting. The benefits aren’t as good It differs from company to company, but basic employee benefits can cover everything from childcare leave to medical costs. That’s not to say there’s no room for negotiations but in typical situations, it’s about a flat fee.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I knew we were going to go back to that city the next year so negotiated with the hotel that if I booked the next event at their venue would they waive the cancellation fee. Negotiation As you saw above, negotiation is possible. Fortunately, they were able to waive it and we only lost our $500 deposit. It is always worth asking.

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What to Do When Your Client is Boring | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

An in-person interview doesn’t come with a copy-and-paste option, but it definitely helps get someone out of their drone-like business brain. It didn’t really work then and it definitely doesn’t work in business now. It’s something about the medium, something about the official-ness of writing stuff down.

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