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What Goes in An Employee Handbook
Well, practically everything including the kitchen sink! Your employee handbook should include everything and anything you want your employees to know, and understand, including rules to follow, flow charts, and lists, down to what will happen if the rules are not followed. This goes well beyond just the hiring information or application we have discussed…
Read MoreHow to Conduct a Hiring Interview
The interview is the one place most employers fail at the most. No matter how many times you can be told what not to ask or talk about, chances are at some point you will slip up and say or ask something you should not have. Well everyone is human but let us go over…
Read MoreWhat to Include on a Job Application
Well, the first is obvious, the name of your company and that this is an application you can add an address and phone number if you would like or if there is more than one location of your business. Image taken from Poole Anderson Construction, online application Instructions to the applicant such as to fill…
Read MoreHiring Procedures for New Employees
Things you need to understand and think about when looking for a new employee. Most of you never went to college to take classes on hiring, so unless you have earned a degree in Human Resources, everyone needs help in this area. Most of what I know I learned myself while running my own business,…
Read More4 Steps to Hiring Employees
I have seen this issue coming up a lot lately and I even started working on this series last year but never finished it. So, I think now is a good time to get it done and posted. The number one expense per job in a service business is your labor costs. So you need…
Read MoreTime Management Tips for Business Productivity
If you are lucky enough to have reached the point where you can have a crew or two working for you handling the actual work of your business, congratulations. But now, how do you use this newfound freedom of not working daily out in the field on a job site to improve and grow your…
Read MoreOSHA Training for Your Employees
This was the talk I gave last year at some local and National industry events. I wanted to give a short outline of the steps for OSHA training for your employees and then give a link where you can ask for and get my eBook taken from that talk. First, why do you have…
Read MoreDoes OSHA Consider You a Manufacturer?
I thought I would pass this along during this Safety Week. With all the new OSHA GHS label and SDS requirements coming down, contractors that make up their chemical mixes out in the field may need to make sure they do not cross the line and become manufacturers in OSHA’s eyes. The definition of a…
Read MoreMay 3-9th is Safety Week
There are two ways for your employees to work while on the job, safely or unsafely. Everyday at every second an employee has and makes the choice of which it will be. This is a voluntary action and unfortunately is one where the employer can not force compliance even if you were standing right with…
Read MoreDo Your Services Require Sales Tax?
Sales tax is one of the largest sources of state revenue and with state and local governments struggling to fill cash flow gaps during a down economy they are voting in increases not only on goods but on services that are to be subject to sales tax. There’s truly a hodgepodge of laws and taxing…
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