The HR Base Camp Blog

For this episode of What the Hell Just Happened?! Paul Edwards sits down with CEDR Solution Center Senior Advisor Tiana Starke to discuss social media usage by business owners, including how one business landed itself in some deep water as a result of a post they made. What types of things do you need to be careful of as a business owner when it comes to your own social media postings? Listen as Paul and Tiana analyze this post, the risk it posed to the business, and how the entire situation could have been easily avoided.

Inflation is on everyone’s minds right now, and understandably so. Most Americans are aware that the purchasing power of a dollar is always decreasing to some degree, but rarely does the rise in the cost of living have such a powerful impact on our daily lives or feature so prominently in the public discourse.   As […]

How safe is it to let a new employee go if they aren’t a good fit? What if you just found out that new employee is pregnant?  How could an audit by your state’s Labor Commission leave you with a surprise $800,000 bill (It happened to one California employer earlier this year)? How did throwing […]

For many owners and managers, the prospect of bringing on a student intern — especially an unpaid one — for help checking off a few long-delayed tasks seems like too good of an opportunity to miss. But, when bringing an intern or temporary employee in, it’s important to make sure that you’re classifying that person […]

In the fall of 2021, it seemed like states were coming out with new rules around vaccine mandates practically every other day. That trend has definitely slowed down, but it hasn’t stopped completely.  New rules around vaccine mandates continue to roll out and, in some cases, vaccine mandates are being withdrawn. Below, we provide a […]

You set your keys down on your kitchen counter after a long, full day. Even though you’re trying to decompress with a relaxing cup of…tea (definitely just tea), your mind is still spinning with unmade decisions from your day.  Did that interview with the candidate actually go well? Or are you just in a really […]

She was so pumped when she got the job and she’s already leaving? What the heck went wrong?! Like most things in life, it’s rare that we can point to a single thing and say with certainty, “That is what caused this employee to quit or, for that matter, to stay.” It’s a situation that […]