With employment lawsuits at an all-time high, it’s more important than ever to know what you can and can’t fire someone for. First, let’s test your knowledge of legal reasons that you could terminate an employee for. Which of the following terminations is NOT legal? A. Joe fired for distributing political propaganda in the morning [...]
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Can I Fire For This?
Wednesday, May 8th, 2013When is Travel Time or Seminar Attendance Compensable?
Friday, February 15th, 2013Or “The Policy that 8 out of 10 Employers Get Wrong” For continuing education (CE) credits, seminars, conferences, or company trips, it’s critical that you remember two rules: 1. The “Butt in the Chair” rule – employers must pay for ALL hours employee’s are attending mandatory trainings or meetings, regardless of the day of the [...]
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Friday, February 15th, 2013Or “Why is Documenting so Important?” As HR professionals, we hear a lot of excuses when it comes to why a personnel file is empty or has only vague or outdated notes about an employee’s performance problems. “I’m too busy to do paperwork.” “I didn’t want to hurt her feelings.” “It only makes him mad, [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Behavioral Interview: An Employer’s Best Hiring Tool
Thursday, February 14th, 2013Or “How to Find and Hire the Right Employees Every Time” A great hiring tool that all medical and dental office managers and doctors should have in their arsenal is the “behavioral interview.” What is a behavioral interview, you may ask? To get a better understanding of what a behavior-based interview is, we should first [...]
Read the rest of this entry »The Layoff Aftermath: Keeping Your Remaining Team Together
Thursday, February 14th, 2013Or “How to Cope with the Aftereffects of a Layoff” It’s an unfortunate truth that, as employers or office managers in the medical or dental field, one day we may have to layoff one or more of our employees due to financial hardship. We hate to do it, but we also know it is necessary [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Purchasing a Practice – Transitioning Employees Before, During and After
Sunday, December 30th, 2012Thank you for visiting CEDR Solutions. This page was created to be a supplemental reference to CEDR’s popular “Strategies in Transitioning Employees in a Practice Purchase” article that made it’s first appearance in The Profitable Dentist’s Winter 2011 issue. (You can find the full article here.) Below you will find our supplemental video resource, recorded [...]
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Saturday, December 29th, 2012This article first appeared in The Profitable Dentist Winter 2011 Magazine Issue To see the original publication, click here. In a recent online discussion with a group of dentists, I found myself embroiled in a heated debate. The issue was what to do about the employees when you are in transition on a purchase of [...]
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Saturday, December 8th, 2012Office Holiday Party Do’s & Don’ts One of the biggest highlights of the holiday season for many practices is the work-sponsored party, especially if alcohol is available. After all, everyone loves a holiday party and the chance to kick back a bit with a drink or two on the boss. However, there are also no [...]
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Sunday, October 21st, 2012Here are a handful of the toughest and most common HR questions I get from employers: Tough Question #1: Can I withhold extra days from employee’s last paycheck? “I let an employee take time off for paid vacation and she just called in and quit this morning. She worked here three months and took the [...]
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