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Why Have a Workplace Injury and Illness Prevention Program?
Why Have a Workplace Injury and Illness Prevention Program? Taking risks is a part of running a business, particularly for small business owners. You take risks in product development, marketing, and advertising in order to stay competitive. Some risks are just not worth the gamble. One of these is risking the safety and health of…
Read MoreCal/OSHA Injury & Illness Prevention Program
If you would like to reduce the costs and risks associated with workplace injuries and illnesses, you need to address safety and health right along with production. Setting up an Injury and Illness Prevention Program helps you do this. In developing the program, you identify what has to be done to promote the safety…
Read MoreIN: Cal/OSHA Injury & Illness Prevention Program
Dear Valued Customer, In California every employer has a legal obligation to provide and maintain a safe and healthful workplace for employees, according to the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973. As of 1991, a written, effective Injury and Illness Prevention (IIP), Program is required for every California employer. We’re focused on this…
Read MoreUnemployment Insurance – Who Pays for It?
When an employee finds themselves out of work, then under certain circumstances, they can collect unemployment benefits. The state disburses these funds to the individual on behalf of their previous employer. So who pays for this unemployment insurance? Do you need to purchase an unemployment insurance policy? As a small business owner, what do you…
Read MoreIN: Unemployment Insurance – Who Pays for It?
Dear Valued Customer, In this issue of “————————” we seek to clear up a few things regarding unemployment insurance. When an employee finds themselves out of work, then under certain circumstances, they can collect unemployment benefits. The state disburses these funds to the individual on behalf of their previous employer. So who pays for this…
Read MoreWho can provide sexual harassment prevention training?
There are three types of qualified trainers: Attorneys who have been members of the bar of any state for at least two years and whose practice includes employment law under the Fair Employment and Housing Act or Title VII of the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964; Human resource professionals or harassment prevention consultants with…
Read MoreWhich employees do employers have to train?
Employers having five or more employees must train all supervisors in California, as well as nonsupervisory employees in California. A supervisor is anyone with authority to hire, fire, assign, transfer, discipline, or reward other employees. A supervisor is also anyone with the authority to effectively recommend (but not necessarily take) these actions if exercising that…
Read MoreWhich employers have to provide training?
By January 1, 2021, an employer having five or more employees shall provide at least two hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in…
Read MoreIN: Mandatory Harassment Training | Are You in Compliance?
State regulations define sexual harassment as unwanted sexual advances, or visual, verbal or physical conduct of a sexual nature. This definition includes many forms of offensive behavior and includes gender-based harassment of a person of the same sex as the harasser. The following is a partial list of prohibited behavior: Visual conduct: leering, making sexual…
Read MoreIndependent Contractor Defined
People such as doctors, dentists, veterinarians, lawyers, accountants, contractors, subcontractors, public stenographers, or auctioneers who are in an independent trade, business, or profession in which they offer their services to the general public are generally independent contractors. However, whether these people are independent contractors or employees depends on the facts in each case. The general…
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