| Purple Squirrels and Unicorns |
| Is the "supertemp" just a myth? In many ways, it's up to you! Your staffing agency provides great temporaries, but there's so much you can do to increase performance, tenure and ROI once they start. This special report shows you how. |
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| Employers Need to Review Their Handbooks and Policies Now to Avoid NLRB Scrutiny |
| The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been busy rewriting the rules on union organizing, employee use of emails, NLRB jurisdiction and workplace investigations. These initiatives, along with others, weigh heavily in favor of unions and employees. Perhaps the most impactful document on employer day-to-day operations, however, came with the March 18, 2015 issuance of the NLRB General Counsel's Memorandum GC 15-04 ("GC Memo" or "Memo"), which gives detailed guidance regarding the types of employer handbook policies and rules that NLRB investigators and regional offices will consider to be lawful, and those which the NLRB will construe as unlawfully interfering with employees' rights under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA"). |
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| Productivity Tips: Call Your Mom |
| Energy flagging? Attention wandering? Motivation plummeting? Try a microburst activity to recharge and refocus. |
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QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
"You stop using your discretionary effort, you stop looking at creative things you can do. If you want people coming to work with only half their brain, put them under stress."
--Richard Boyatzis, American organizational theorist and educator |
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