Human Capital
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Paid Time Off Best Practices
Specifically, what is the typical vacation schedule for new hires and for mid-career hires? Do any companies offer a greater schedule for the mid-career hires who are new to the company?
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What key measures do you recommend when determining the bonus structure for the company's procurement manager?
We are a small company with one procurement manager. We would like to implement a bonus structure for this manager, but would like to get some thoughts on the best way to set it up and evaluate at year end.
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How do you determine Employee Christmas bonuses?
In a company with both hourly and salary Employees, how do you determine Holiday bonuses by longevity, performance reviews, a mixture of the two or a completely different way? Would love to hear some different perspectives. Thanks.
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How do you set professional development goals?
I'm interested in how you do this for yourself and also for your team? Is it a formal process and what do you try to keep in mind?
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Are gift cards taxable income to employees
During holidays, and during entertainment parties our company gives the employees various gift cards with a total value between $25-$1,000 per employee. These gift cards are not acquired from company's funds but from points gained with a credit card reward account. The points gained by using the cr…
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Career Change Advice
I worked primarily as a mortgage underwriter for the past 10 years. Since I received my MBA a few years ago, I wanted to get out of the mortgage industry and transition into other areas of finance with no success. I have over 6 years of experience in accounting and am now working on a doctorate in …
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Pay Salesman with Commission only?
Hello, We are a Canadian company thinking of hiring a US based "travelling salesman" who is based out of PA in the USA. Are there any restrictions bringing him on with a commission based renumeration as well as shares in the company? Thank you.
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Company Paid Cell Phone
We have an employee that we added his personal phone to our company cell phone plan however, he is no longer required to use the phone for business purposes. If we keep him on the company plan, do we need to charge the employee and pay payroll taxes for this benefit? I am new to the company and hav…
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Implementing a drug and alcohol policy
We're implementing a drug and alcohol policy for our factory and warehouse employees. Once you suspect alcohol or drug use by an employee, we have the union's approval to send the employee to an approved facility for testing. Anyone have experience with implementing this?
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What is the income distribution to partners when income is less than amounts specified in contract?
She gets salary of 20K He gets 10% of 300,000 or 30K. Balance remaining at 2:1 ratio Year 1 Net Income 15,000
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Final paycheck when the employee owes money to company
This employee owes money for prepaid commission and equipment, and signed an authorization to acknowledge the debt. The employee worked 8 hours and has 50 hours accrued vacation. To collect about the entire debt, we want to issue a final paycheck and deduct an amount equal to the net pay. Also, we …
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How do I deliver a presentation effectively to an executive group?
I have the opportunity to present myself to company executives as part of a job interview. I was hoping people could share best practices in presenting to executives. How do I engage them? What are things that I should avoid?
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How do I Practice the Art of Deliberative Conversation vs. Arguing?
In my career I have been taught, and done my best to teach, the art of deliberative conversation vs. arguing and how to remove emotion from difficult conversions and decision making that requires a strong point of view from more than one vantage point.. I would very much appreciate the input of oth…
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401k Vesting - Graduated vs Immediate
My company is converting to a 401k plan from a Simple IRA. Compliance testing will not be an issue for us so we're exploring alternatives regarding the company match and vesting period. The question we're debating is: Does graduated vesting (i.e. 5 yr term @ 20% /yr) have a negative or positive eff…
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Any tips for surviving office politics?
For instance, and this is just one type of example, I work with a COO who repeatedly follows this three step process: 1. Sends me an email with a question requiring my somewhat detailed opinion. 2. Receives my email response. 3. CCs the CEO in her response in order to roundly criticize my answer to…
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Do we have to move up?
Reading the comments in the post about going from controller to CFO then CFO to CEO got me thinking. What point if any, do you decide you are where you want to be and have no desire to move up into CFO or CEO? And is that okay?
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Vacation Accrued in CA
Hello Experts, I have a question about accrued vacation earned in California (CA). I have been working in a firm for more than 10 years in CA. I have accrued around 270 hours and they get carried over every year. Now I have moved to another state (Texas) working for the same firm. But in Texas the …
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When you work sales for commission-only wages, can an employer impose other duties on your time?
I work sales in a commission-only situation. I'm in the store 8 hours a day. Our supervisor requires the commission sales people to perform other duties, for example clerical, tagging & re-tagging stock & waiting on other sales people's customers if they are out of the store. These are all …
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What are some good & simple employee wellness ideas?
We're looking for a wide range of cheap (not necessarily free) and easy employee wellness ideas that employees actually appreciate and make use of. We're especially interested in ideas that employees care about. Also, we place a big value on simple to administer. For instance, our company offers f…
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How shlould an Employer reimburse an Employee who works and lives in Canda in regards to Mileage rates the IRS rates are $0.56 and Canda Rates are 0.54¢
How shlould an Employer reimburse an Employee who works and lives in Canda in regards to Mileage rates the IRS rates are $0.56 and Canda Rates are 0.54¢ Note the Employer corporation is established in the US
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Internal Tax Hire?
At what point did your company deem it cost effective and/or worthwhile to hire an internal tax expert vs. using an external firm? Not just from a cost standpoint, but being ahead of the curve on compliance.
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