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As of January 1, 2020, any employer with five or more employees will have to provide their supervisory employees with two hours of training, regarding sexual harassment. Employees can receive the training in either a classroom setting or any other style of interactive training and education like a live webinar. For all non-supervisory employees, there will need to be at least one hour of training provided. This will need to be done within six months of an employee obtaining the position in the c …

Dealing with an aging workforce presents interesting challenges to employers and HR professionals. It requires you to be familiar with a variety of issues associated with hiring, training and retraining, benefits, staffing, and terminating workers over 40 years of age and to be proactive in preventing age discrimination when making these employment decisions. The first step in managing older workers and successfully avoiding age-bias liability is to understand exactly what it is and to obta …

Unless you live with the indigenous Bushmen tribes of South Africa or you took A Journey to the Center of the Earth with Jules Verne, you should be acutely aware that our whole world is digitally connected from one side to the other. In fact, if you are reading this, chances are it's happening on the net. Welcome to the Digital Age, as if you weren't already here.This worldwide connection brings with it a vast amount of potential. Countless products and forms of entertainment can be located, obt …

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An unnamed company manager held his people accountable for performance, and zeroed in on one associate who did not possess certain qualifications required by a certain date. The manager added extra training time to an already heavy workload the member had. Arguing ensued and before anyone knew it, someone lost their temper. Fists flew and bustling occurred, before the antagonizing employee was physically removed from the premises by co-workers. Both members involved in the outbreak were tried an …