Employee Compensation & Benefits

Discover how companies nationwide are conducting HR practices. This twice-monthly newsletter service gives you the inside look at what other HR departments are doing. Concise, easy-to-read newsletter makes staying on top of trends manageable.

• Practical ideas to promote compliance.
• How other companies simplify human resource practices.
• What policies are going into effect to meet today's HR challenges.
• How your peers handle common human resource issues.
• Filled with informative case studies, human resource articles, and best practices.

• Best Practices in HR Newsletter $399.99 [Add to Cart]

"How To" For Supervisors

The impressions a new employee forms in the first few days on the job can have a big impact on that person’s job performance and satisfaction. This new Click 'n Train PowerPoint® presentation will help to ensure employees are properly informed and trained to do their jobs safely, correctly, and productively. It will teach supervisors and managers to recognize the benefits of new employee orientation as well as learn to plan successful orientations.

New Employee Orientation includes:

• A fully prepared PowerPoint® presentation - Fully researched and expertly designed training meeting on this key topic
• Reproducible handouts, quizzes, and completion certificate - Print and photocopy the handouts for concise, cost-effective tips and reminders. Plus, test for comprehension.
• Easy-to-customize PowerPoints - Change the meeting outlines and insert your own photographs to meet your own company's policies
• Interactive exercises -Involving exercises gain buy-in and increase comprehension
• Trainer's outlines -Useful background and tips save you hours of preparation time

• Click 'n Train: New Employee Orientation PowerPoint $99.99 [Add to Cart]

From Personnel Administration to Human and Organizational Capital Development

Elevate the role of HR to a truly strategic position in your organization Does your organization need more than compliance and reporting from HR? Are you being challenged to add value, act as a strategic partner and develop individual and organizational capabilities? Even if your organization only needs personnel administration, are you optimizing that role?

Whatever your organizational reality, this book provides a practical blueprint for HR transformation and a framework for ongoing analysis and development. Now you and your colleagues can meet changing demands and grow as HR professionals.

The book encourages you to:

• Assess your current situation
• Think about organizational readiness for change
• Develop action strategies to elevate your HR function

No other book takes such a systematic approach to HR optimization. The 14 chapters each discuss one HR function and its components, functions, processes, conditions and standards.

Each chapter includes a scale for assessing where you are and where you want to be, the reasons you need to look at things differently, critical success factors, and lessons learned.

This essential ongoing newsletter service keeps safety professionals current on what's new in OSHA and safety compliance and delivers solid advice on how to comply with all of the complex regulations. Delivered twice monthly.

• The ultimate OSHA compliance newsletter for late-breaking information on OSHA regulations, OSHA news, OSHA safety checklists, OSHA forms, and more.
• Join leading safety professionals who count on OSHA Compliance Advisor to deliver accurate and timely news, advice, and analysis on key safety issues.
• This workplace safety newsletter service is delivered to you twice monthly. It keeps you in full compliance and saves you time, work, and money!
• Back issue safety articles cover topics like anthrax, injury prevention, and workplace safety. Our attorneys, researchers, and journalists are constantly researching impending changes that can affect your organization. No need to research new OSHA regulations--we're already doing all the work for you.

This complete compliance resource covers 150 hot employment law topics by state, including: employee rights, discrimination, employment at will, labor relations, privacy, workers' compensation, child labor, affirmative action, and much more.

Need to know how federal labor law differs from your state? It’s easy! Quick Guide to Employment Law provides you with easy-to-use charts comparing federal to state human resource regulations … so you can see which takes precedence.

Don’t waste your valuable time researching the answers to employment law topics. Just open up the Quick Guide to Employment Law and get capsule summaries and comparisons of HR laws in all 50 states plus Washington D.C.

In this unique chart-based reference guide on state employment regulations, you’ll find:

• Plain-English explanations of all major federal and state employment laws
• Three free updates and newsletters per year so you stay on top of the latest issues in employment law
• All corresponding regulations, statutes, and court cases
• Easy-to-read charts highlight federal and state employment laws side by side so you can quickly compare which takes precedence
• Extensive indexing system with convenient cross-references make research easy

Note:This program is available for all 50 states. Please select the specific state when placing your order online.

• Quick Guide to Employment Law $399.99 [Add to Cart]

This comprehensive collection of over 350 prewritten personnel policies makes creating a human resource policy manual easy and foolproof. It’s the ideal way to set workplace standards and develop a policy manual that promotes fairness, prevents disputes, and preserves employer and employee rights.

The prewritten HR policies you get will save an incredible amount of time. Choose from a variety of policies on each critical topic - from dress code... to cell phone use... to weather closings (choose between strict, standard, or progressive to match your company’s style). All you have to do is customize, save, and print from your own computer.

SmartPolicies gives you:

• Over 350 prewritten samples of HR policies in over 100 crucial HR subject areas
  Presented in three categories - strict, standard, and progressive - so you can match your company’s style
• Extensive indexing
  Search alphabetically, by topics, or keywords, and find what you’re looking for quickly
• Ability to adapt and customize your policies
  Revise, save, and print right from your own PC
• Quarterly updates
  Keep you up-to-date with constantly changing government regulations

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Healthcare Reform Act, covers several areas and is referred to collectively as Affordable Care Act, ACA. The provisions of the ACA take effect over several years - starting the spring of 2010. The two biggest pieces take effect 2014--but you CANNOT WAIT to start.

This reports starts with a quick summary of provisions followed by detailed analysis.

Topics covered:

• What Happens & When
• Limits and Restrictions
• Grandfather Rules
• Conditions - Active Employees and Retirees
• Tax Credits and Liabilities
• Tests and Recordkeeping

These reforms are built on the current employer-based system and will impact every employer in the country. Be certain you are prepared and that your plan follows the 2010 -- 2018 time line for total compliance.

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The changes to the FMLA can be confusing and supervisors can now be personally liable for non-compliance with and violations to the FMLA. Compliance training is more critical than ever.

Help prevent lawsuits and ensure 100% compliance with a clear, comprehensive and accurate summary of the new FMLA. Understanding the New FMLA walks your employees, step-by-step, through the tricky legal terrain, explaining the law's requirements in non-legalistic, easy-to-understand language: 

• Who is covered by the new FMLA?
• Who is eligible for an FMLA Leave?
• What is The Active Duty Family Leave?
• What are Serious Health Condition, Incapacitated, Continuing Treatment, etc.?
• What are the responsibilities of both employee and employer?
• What is medical certification?
• How does the FMLA affect leaves and benefits?

Length: 19 minutes

2010 Edition! 

Uncover potential HR compliance problems before they arise, while making certain each policy is current and provides the best information for your company.

HR audit topics addressed include: How to conduct a self-audit, Affirmative action laws, EEO, Discrimination, Workplace harassment, Termination, Communication, Salary and pay, Discipline, Safety, Health and security, Retirement and pension, Benefits-including 2010 HealthCare Reform, managing flexible work schedules, telecommunting, electronic monitoring, workplace violence. Plus much more.

Each checklist makes reviewing HR policies quick and productive:

• Step-by-step checklists ensure your organization's policies and practices are legal and safe.
• Topic overviews give you the background you need to be sure of your compliance with employment laws.
• Samples Forms included employee evaluation, job analysis interview, interview comments, and more.

Major Topics Covered:

• Human resource policies-now includes Telecommuting
• Recordkeeping
• Job descriptions
• Safety and OSHA -- just added PPE requirements
• Employee benefits
• Employee compensation
• Employee hiring policies
• Performance appraisals

This "plain-English" state-specific reference guide makes complying with employment laws easy. The 2010 Employment Law Guide delivers clear, straightforward answers to the state labor and HR laws that apply to your organization. It will tell you what all critical human resources regulations mean, what you need to do to comply, and how federal labor laws differ from those in your state.

This guide will provide you with the latest state and federal employment laws and regulations necessary to ensure that you are in compliance. Knowing the proper way to handle HR issues is the only way to protect your organization.

Covers more than 200 topics, including:

• Affirmative Action laws
• Age discrimination
• Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
• Background checks
• Child labor
• Civil rights
• Employee benefits
• ERISA
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
• FMLA
• Hiring

Our editorial staffs are experts, and after their review of the DOL document detailing the massive changes, they have compiled a translated synopsis that will put you in-the-know.

Don’t be fooled into believing that your FMLA program will not be impacted. The vast majority of regulations are affected. The changes brought about by the new FMLA rule will require employers to:

The HR Manager's Legal Reporter brings you the practical policies, programs, and advice you need to stay in compliance and avoid human resource-related lawsuits. Tens of thousands of HR managers have relied on this unique resource for over 25 years to find out what's new, what's changed, what works, and, most important, what to do about it. The Reporter delivers clearly written, practical advice on:

• Step-by-step lawsuit prevention
• Policy and program recommendations
• Court decisions
• Federal and state legal developments

• You Be the Judge
  A mini-training session that presents a case where you guess what the court says. Then read the answer with insightful comments.
• Washington Roundup
  What's going on in Washington, in Congress, and the agencies that affects HR managers and employment law.
• Briefs
  Summaries of interesting or significant cases with commentary on how the lessons of the case apply to you.

This unique service is your work-saving double threat. First, you will rely on it to understand the complicated web of wage and hour regulations that apply in your state. Then you will count on its reliable wage and salary survey data on hundreds of jobs to keep your pay scales competitive. Your subscription includes an online companion site so you have immediate and always new information plus forms you can download and customize easily!

Arranged alphabetically by topic, this unique service explains in plain-English all key state and federal wage and hour laws - from minimum wage to overtime classification.

BLR’s exclusive wage and salary survey data insures your pay rates are right for any job in your state and region.

• A- Z State and federal compensation law explanations
  Get fast, practical answers, with federal to state comparisons - just look up the topic alphabetically!
• Recommended rate ranges specific to YOUR STATE and REGION
  BLR’s unique system of pay grades and rate ranges, plus point-factor analysis, lets you price any job in minutes
• Employee compensation and benefits surveys
  BLR’S exclusive survey data comes from thousands of organizations just like yours. Helps you benchmark and stay competitive.
• Free newsletter
  Employee Compensation newsletter helps keep you on top of new state and federal compensation and benefits laws. Six updates throughout the year keep your book current with all new compensation laws
• Job descriptions
  Complete instructions for the job descriptions process along with job description examples.
• Complete wage and salary administration guidance
  Walks you through the entire compensation process with step-by-step instructions for analyzing and pricing jobs, writing job descriptions, employee compensation policies, and more

• Employee Compensation in [Your State] $399.99 [Add to Cart]

This practical human resources handbook for the solo practitioner gives you the guidance and tools to run your HR department effectively and efficiently. Whether you're the person new to HR or an HR manager in a solo environment, it will help you perform your HR function with the best of the them.

Includes how to align HR with your company's goals, build credibility and influence, understand HR ethics, cope with management expectations, learn effective staffing strategies, and use HR metrics to prove your contributions.

Practical chapters show you how to get big HR performance with a limited staff:

• Align HR's goals with the company objectives
• Keys to building credibility and influence
• Overview of compliance, federal and state issues, and best practices
• The strategic HR planning process
• Training for organizational excellence
• Prewritten forms, policies, and HR checklists

• Managing an HR Department of One - Binder Version $299.99 [Add to Cart]

Count on BLR's audio conference to deliver the most relevent, up-to-speed strategies and tactics to make sure your organization is in total compliance with new FLSA requirements, particularly overtime. Get the top 3 FLSA Audio Conferences of 2005 on CD and receive the following conferences:

• Computer Professionals and Overtime
• Secrets to Overtime Exemption Audits
• How to Avoid Wage and Hour Lawsuits

Your order includes a complete recording of each conference listed above, including questions and handouts.

Now you can listen as top industry experts explain tactics and strategies to keep your organization out of embarrassing, time-consuming, and expensive legal trouble.

• FLSA-Are You in Compliance Audio Conference on CD Bundle $399.99 [Add to Cart]