This Saturday, 4/19/08, at 10 AM, I'll be interviewed for my 2nd time on Chicago's WKKC 89.3 FM's talk radio show Consumer Eye. WKKC is Kennedy-King College's radio station. This is a live interview and will be conducted by the show's creator Derek McNeal. The subject of the interview will of course be labor and [...]
This post continues the discussion that began with my prior post. After deciding whether to have employment policies and which policies to have, a business should determine what form these policies should take. Such forms may include an electronic document, a written memo, a multi-page document, a bound manual, or a combination of these. Alternatively, [...]
Among my clients and many other businesses the question often arises: Do we need written employment policies or employee handbooks or manuals? The following is what I usually advise and why. In general, there’s no statute mandating that businesses have such policies or manuals. But, relative to public sector contracts, most government agencies require that [...]
I'm excited to announce that on February 15, 2008, I was elected Board Chairman for The YMCA Alliance. The YMCA Alliance ("Y-Alliance") is the workforce development, adult education and literacy arm of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago, one of Chicago's largest nonprofits. The Y-Alliance is also part of Training Inc, a national jobs training network [...]
I've been asked about posting notice for the Illinois Employee Classification Act. For more information about the Act, see my 2/10/08 post. This is a simple provision of the Act. It's contained in Section 15 Notice. All businesses with "one or more individuals perform[ing] services who are not classified as employees under . . . [...]
