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3 powerful ways to improve your employee retention rate

Achievers

Health insurance coverage and paid vacation time are considered standard, so going above and beyond that minimum can go a long way toward improving your retention rate. If you invest in your managers to ensure they’re well trained, you’re investing in your employee retention as well. Appreciation and recognition go the distance.

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Golden handcuffs: Should employers use them on top talent?

Business Management Daily

According to the Society for Human Resource Management, the skills gap is so large that nearly half of all employees will need retraining in this decade. It’s crucial for managers to gauge how their employees are doing physically and mentally to avoid this from happening. appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Why you need to celebrate employee milestones

Achievers

As a manager, you’re aware that it’s important to give employees everyday recognition, praise, and feedback. In addition to ongoing recognition and feedback, HR and managers need to develop special ways to celebrate bigger milestones. All-expenses-paid vacation. Options for employee recognition. Free” time off.

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Why More Vacation Time Will Make Your Employees (and Your Company) Healthier

Achievers

You’re very accustomed to seeing statistics focused on the fact that American employers in general provide much less paid time off than employers do in other countries, but there is a more puzzling set of figures that bear looking at as well. Even when American workers are given paid vacation time, they barely even use half of it.

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Eliminate Spreadsheets & Reduce Errors with BerniePortal’s PTO Tracker

BerniePortal

In addition, most PTO policies include national and floating holidays, paid vacation days, paid family leave, and paid sick leave as well. However, with a more robust and compelling PTO package comes more responsibility on managers.

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How to Turn a New Company Policy from Negative to Positive

HR Bartender

(Editor’s Note: Today’s article is brought to you by our friends at Kronos , a leading provider of workforce management and human capital management cloud solutions. We were offering new employees three weeks of paid vacation, which is comparable to what local companies with which we compete for talent were offering.

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Overview of Employment Laws in Italy

Global People Strategist

Working Conditions Italy’s labor policies also address working conditions, such as the maximum number of working hours, rest periods, and minimum annual paid leave. Employees are generally entitled to 20 days of paid vacation per year, with the possibility of an increase based on years of service.