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The “How To” Era Has Arrived

Achievers

The date was December 16, 2011. Industries that have been represented include financial services, insurance, healthcare, retail, hospitality, technology, engineering, government, not-for-profit, pharmaceutical, telecommunications, sales and marketing and entertainment. Guest post by: Jeff Waldman. Call to Action.

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Northwestern University’s Alternative Explanations Not Strong Enough To Defeat ERISA Excessive Fee Claims

Proskauer's Employee Benefits & Executive Compensa

In some cases, plaintiffs contend that defendants imprudently offered the retail share class of a mutual fund with higher fees when they could have offered the institutional share class of the exact same mutual fund with lower fees. 2011) and Hecker v. Exelon Corp. , 3d 667 (7th Cir. Deere & Co. , 3d 575 (7th Cir.

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Seven ways HR can increase employee productivity

cipHR

A study by furniture retailer OKA found that untidy desks are linked to a 77% decline in productivity and a 53% fall in motivation among British workers. Comfort can also be affected by the amount of unnecessary clutter you have on your desk.

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Gretna Green accredited as living wage employer

Employee Benefits

The living wage movement has delivered a pay rise to more than 60,000 lower-paid Scottish employees and given them an extra £370 million since 2011, with more than 3,000 living wage employers now based in Scotland.

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Is addiction a disability under the ADA?

Business Management Daily

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s final regulations, issued in 2011, further expand the ADAAA’s goal of broadening the definition of “disability” under the ADA. As a result, a greater number of employees will be covered under federal disability law and be eligible to file ADA-related claims. For example, in Salley v.

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Cruelty goes digital: Layoffs by email

Minding the Workplace

And then there’s Amazon (18,000 layoffs) using the same approach, as reported by Ariel Zilber for the New York Post ( link here ): Fired Amazon workers griped about the e-retail giant using email to inform them they were no longer needed by the company, according to a published report. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

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Mental Injuries: Workers’ Compensation and Disability Insurance Part 1

Workers' Compensation Perspectives

The following are based on December counts of benefit cases paid each year 2011(325,620 cases)-2023 (305,679 cases) and isolating mental disorders and all other classes of principle diagnosis : Australia Department of Social Services (DSS) provides data on the demographics of Disability Support Pension (DPS) recipients quarterly.