It’s no secret that it’s harder today than ever before to recruit and retain top talent. You may even be concerned that your best people are being actively pursued by your competition. We can help.
Our proprietary tools will give you insight into your organization. It starts with a comprehensive employee-engagement consultation that will encompass feedback from your staff and leadership, to provide a 360-degree view of your culture. You’ll learn from these in-depth talent analytics how to improve recruitment and retention. You and your hiring managers will gain advice and resources to improve interviewing skills, along with becoming more effective and confident in coaching and professionally developing employees once hired.
Hiring the ideal candidate requires designing your recruiting efforts to ensure the employee not only has the skills necessary to do the job well, but also the behaviors and attitudes to fit within your culture. Total-person or job-fit assessments can help you hire the right person the first time. Assessments also help you understand how to motivate and manage employees with various personalities. The knowledge you gain will help you leverage employee strengths and minimize weaknesses so your employees are happy and productive.
Paid time off (PTO) is one of the employee benefits that employees value most. The pandemic, however, upset many employees’ PTO plans due to travel restrictions and the cancellation of trips and family gatherings. It has also raised numerous questions among employers around the issues of unused PTO, PTO donation, PTO use during furloughs, and unlimited PTO programs. This article provides some thoughts on these issues as well as the compliance traps employers will want to watch out for.
At USI, we’re dedicated to helping you stay abreast of fast-changing legislative and regulatory developments and guidance related to health and welfare plans that could impact your business. USI's national Employee Benefits Compliance team shares the Compliance Updates that have occurred over the past quarter.
It’s that time of year again when employers subject to OSHA’s recordkeeping rule are required to post a signed copy of their Form 300A in a location accessible to employees by February 1. Despite this annual obligation, many employers continue to make common recordkeeping mistakes, some of which potentially affect OSHA compliance. With the deadline looming, we’re reviewing Form 300A and related aspects of the recordkeeping rule to help you avoid some of the most common mistakes.