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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 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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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. Some companies hold on to hiring documents such as resumes, job applications, and job descriptions.

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Taking the time to acknowledge someone and say thanks.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This could include sympathy cards, thank you cards, birthday cards, congratulations on a promotion, a card to reconnect with a client you havent heard from in awhile, or many other reasons. I dont often promote any businesses from my blog, but I thought this one was worth talking about. To send to clients of your company.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you can prove yourself as a good worker you can go up through the ranks and because they already know how you work, they are more apt to promote you. She said it wouldnt look good on my resume if I was seen as a job hopper. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice.

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The Advertising Game

Laughing all the Way to Work

Fax Blasts I remember someone from my IAAP Chapter asked me to fax the notice of our Chapter dinner to a list of about 60 companies to promote it. I am not a legal expert and do not claim to give any legal advice. I refused because I didnt see it as an effective way of reaching out to other assistants and/or businesses.

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