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New year bringing changes to New Hampshire employer safety programs
Quick summary of this article The Department of Labor monitors employers, workers reward, and insurance carriers to insure that they are in compliance with New Hampshire Labor laws. These laws…
Does Justice Dept. Protect Its Guns More Than Its People? Gun Background Checks Need To Improve
Even though three days have passed since the horrific massacre, the country has still not been able to come to terms with it. Undoubtedly, Christmas this year will not be…
Was Medical Doctor’s Treatment at Texas Facility a Hostile Work Environment?
A medical doctor who’d been transferred to a new facility claimed that his disability was the reason he was subjected to a hostile work environment. He filed a lawsuit, alleging…
Fires In Asian Garment Factories Claim 400 Lives: Can Walmart And Other Buyers Absolve Themselves Of Responsibility?
Is the life of an American worker more precious than the life of a worker in a Bangladesh factory tailoring clothes for Walmart or a factory in China manufacturing appliances…
New Law Spells Curtains For Mississippi Abortion Clinic: But They Aren’t Going Out Without A Fight
The New Year could herald bad tidings for the only abortion clinic in Mississippi, following a new law that necessitates obtaining admitting privileges to local hospitals, by its physicians. As…
Employees at Wal-Mart to Pay More for Healthcare
Wal-Mart employees will fork up between 8 and 36 percent more in premiums for their medical plan in 2013, resulting in approximately 1.4 million workers to precede coverage in general,…
Your Creditors Are Hounding You, Seeking Legal Ways To Takeover Your Assets: How To Preempt Their Move?
There are lots of lessons to be learnt from Lance Armstrong. Prime amongst them is that it never pays to cheat, but also that if you are expecting lawsuits against…
Memorial Medical Center Possible Job Cuts
Many employees at the Memorial Medical Center in Modesto are preparing for the worse, as there is a huge possibility that a number of jobs and positions are going to…
Recipients of Medicaid Win an Injunction
A number of Medicaid recipients have recently won an injunction in New York City. The groups of elderly and disabled individuals who receive Medicaid and also receive daily care have…
Dept of Labor Cites New York Company Safety Fines of Close to $55,000
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has fined New York-based DeIorio Foods, Inc., which specializes in bread products, a total of $54,900 for reported violations discovered at one of its…
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Firing Is Fiery!
HR Career Resources is a weekly column authored by HRCrossing, the nation's leading human resources jobsite dedicated to getting HR professionals jobs.
For most human resources professionals, hiring a new candidate is a jubilant moment. However, needing to fire one of their existing employees is one situation they pray hard to avoid getting into. Unfortunately, the need to fire an employee for the health of the organization is inevitable at times. In such cases, HR professionals are not left with a choice. However, firing an employee does not always have to be a bad experience. Terminating an employee’s services can sometimes be the best solution for an organization or the employee himself. Reasons for termination may include a lack of productivity, misconduct, a loss to the organization owing to the carelessness of the employee, and other issues. Human resources professionals faced with the situation of firing an employee need to tackle each [...]
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