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Are Employee Background Checks Legal?

Small Business CEO

Before making important personnel decisions, be it hiring, promotion, retention, or reassignment, most employers prefer background tests on potential candidates and employees. Basic checks include the candidate’s work history, financial history, criminal record, medical history, and social media use.

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What Every Business Needs To Know About The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

Allwork

employers with 15 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations for known limitations associated with pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions. By providing support and protections for pregnant workers, these laws aim to promote women’s health, economic stability, and equal opportunities in the workplace.

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

BMT Office Administration

Records relating to promotion, demotion, transfer, or layoff. For instance, employers cannot include medical information in an employee’s general personnel file due to the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Some of the most frequent types of these files are: Medical records for paperwork related to: Personal medical information.

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

BMT Office Administration

Besides that, your confidential medical records will let you know if any team members have disabilities that you need to consider when planning and assigning tasks. Also, you’re legally obligated to retain these records for at least one year by the EEOC.

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Employee Records: End of year review & preparing for next year

BMT Office Administration

The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) have also had significant impacts on employee recordkeeping and personnel files — further complicating the issue. This category can also include awards, promotion records, and education/training records. Medical records.

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

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It concluded that programs are most likely to fail if they aren’t integrated properly into a “comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy.” In fact, in 2016 the Harvard Business Review compiled data from leading experts on the topic. They use TaskHuman, which is free for employees.

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Coworking In A War Zone: Four Ukrainian Workspace Operators Reveal Their Experiences, And How You Can Help

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“For example, our accountant has been actively supporting the left-wing military headquarters since the beginning of active military actions, and our creative manager has been involved in promoting stories that are now actively published by the Ukrainer. There are active initiatives related to blood donation.

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