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HR-OneSource Develops Human
Resource Website Navigating the maze of federal and state regulations can be challenging
for human resources professionals. A Des Moines firm has developed a
comprehensive “Members Only” website that makes that job much easier.
HR-OneSource designed the “Members Only” website to provide HR
professionals and other staff assigned HR responsibilities with an
easy-to-use resource for all areas of human resource management. These
areas include personnel management, legal compliance, compensation and benefits,
safety, and labor relations.
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One
Way To Keep Your Personnel Costs Down
Today, the costs of
training, using people improperly, and firing are
prohibitive. Skilled replacements may not be readily
available, and constant replacement of workers is
time-consuming and costly. The informed, aware employer must
encourage employees to be motivated to achieve results, place
people effectively and formulate position requirements to fit
available staff. The behavioral-style surveying process
provides the techniques to achieve these goals for today’s
enlightened employers.
For employers who choose to undertake
the process, the participant (employee/prospect) completes a
behavioral-style survey form. The survey is processed and a
behavioral-style profile report is provided to the employer by the HR
Consultant. Although the report is informative, the interpretation of it
and the action to be taken associated with it is where the true value
lies.
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Shredders
Become
Essential Office Equipment
As part
of the
battle against
the
growing
problem of identity theft,
the
Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
imposed
a
new rule
regarding the proper
disposal of confidential consumer information. The
rule, which went
into effect
June 1,
requires covered entities to take
"reasonable
measures"
to keep
"consumer information"
out of
the hands of those who
are
not
authorized
to see or use it. The law includes
consumer information (or a compilation) in
paper, electronic
or other forms,
but
only
if
it
is a
consumer report or derived from
a
consumer report,
as those terms
are defined
by
the
Fair
Credit Reporting Act (FCRA).
The
new
regulation addresses
the
destruction
of
consumer
information obtained about current
employees, former
employees, job applicants, customers and vendors
through
credit checks, background
checks,
or
other
business investigations, but
only if
the information
is
in
the form
of a consumer report or is derived from a
consumer report. All information
covered
by the
regulation
must be disposed
of
in
a way
that reduces the chance it will be stolen by an identity
thief.
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