Regardless of what you read, there are some honest people left in this world.
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Tags: benefits, honest employee, unemployed
Is one of your HR duties building teamwork? It might be easier if employees spent more time with each other. Well, that’s exactly what’s happening in Japan, where corporate dormitories for young, single workers are making a comeback.
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Tags: benefits, dormitories, younger workers
More than a third of people who receive Incapacity Benefits in Great Britain have been milking the system for more than 10 years.
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Would you dread having to talk to employees about their extra-marital affairs? Would you even want to know about them?
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Businesses all over the world are looking for ways to cut costs. Turin, Italy, has figured out that it’s cheaper to hire sheep rather than people to take care of lawn maintenance in city parks.
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You’ve heard about these cases before: An employee is collecting disability payments, but someone sees him doing heavy yard work or playing pick-up basketball. This case from Wales takes those scams one step further.
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As long as your company is consistent, you can give benefits to whomever you want, right? A recent court ruling took that decision away from public employers in one state.
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Free lunches for catering employees; special parking places for workers at a motorcycle advocacy group; discounted loan rates for credit union staffers. They’re all part of offbeat benefits provided by companies voted “best places to work.”
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Tags: benefits, free lunches, special parking
