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Restoring Workplace Trust
… results and helps avert calamities. If we looked at the behaviors which build trust as the foundation of prudent risk management and stewardship of organizational assets, quality, and brand reputation, we'd give its definition and management …
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Mercer Launches U.S. Pension Buyout Index
Mercer has launched a U.S. Pension Buyout Index to help employers who are considering shifting retiree benefits responsibilities to premium insurers.
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Fight or Flight? When an Employee Sues You, Should You Litigate or Settle?
The reality is that there is no easy answer to the question of how your company should respond to a lawsuit by an employee.
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Risky Business People: Study Finds 1 in 8 Workers Bring Potential Peril to Their Company
A global report on risk management claims an average of 1 in 8 workers pose a "high risk" for their organization. The report by SHL, an Atlanta-based talent …
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McDonald's to Franchisees: Merry Christmas. Now Open Your Stores
… global October sales decline, its first in nine years. Howard Penney, restaurant industry analyst with Hedgeye Risk Management LLC in New Haven, Connecticut, said McDonald's benefited in recent years from programs to keep stores open later …
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What Can Go Wrong When Employees Date?
Instead of banning office romances, companies should reinforce appropriate workplace behavior during harassment avoidance and response training.
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Don't Forget These Five Security Issues in Your BYOD Policy
… they turn on their iPhones. Your IT, legal, and risk management departments, however, should require them, since ..... synergy among the C-suite, legal, IT, HR, and risk management . Involve all of these departments to make sure that …
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Workers' Comp Prices Increasing as Market Hardens
… Ridgeland, Mississippi, for Arthur J. Gallagher Risk Management Services Inc. Meanwhile, employers are exiting workers ..... shrink," said Drew Jones, senior vice president for risk management services for Pennsylvania Manufacturers' Assn. Insurance …
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Managing Reputation Risks Key to Organization's Success: Study
… something that's rare. Over five years, it's quite likely."The report said essential elements of a reputational risk management program include evaluating and monitoring reputation equity, analyzing reputation drivers and developing a reputation …
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Opinion: Business Leaders Have a Chance to Step Up and Fix Health Care
… health care must be guided not only by the compassion of human resources but by the hard-headedness of finance and risk management . Poor performing and unaccountable physicians, pharmacy benefits managers, hospital services and health plans should …
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Contingent Overcompliance
… into an employment relationship. But the 12-month rule, he says, "is one that has been defined more by internal risk management teams than any specific court ruling." The amount of time a contractor or temporary worker spends in the service of …
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Thirty Percent of Eligible Employees Take GM Lump-Sum Offer
… 7 billion in obligations, according to the 8-K filing. Matt Herrmann, leader of Towers Watson's retirement risk management group, said there was no clear industry expectation for the acceptance rate because the lump-sum offers by GM …
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Internal Surveillance Cameras can Reduce Workers' Compensation Fraud
… Cheese's restaurants and has more than 17,000 employees nationwide. Jeff Strege, the company's director of risk management , described the company's strategy during the California Workers' Compensation & Risk Conference in Dana Point …
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Employers Struggle to Develop Rules, Policies Around Social Media Misuse: Survey
… Although many companies have put in place policies governing employee social media use, there are a number of other risk management measures companies should be pursuing to safeguard their businesses while protecting their employees' right to privacy …
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Employee Benefits Broker Hylant Group Acquires Employee Benefits Agency AGIS
… benefits practice, as well as Hylant's other risk and industry specialty practices, including property and casualty, risk management and insurance services, the company said in a statement. "The acquisition of AGIS demonstrates our commitment to …
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Pension Payouts
… There are a large number of plan sponsors doing this in 2012," says Jason Richards, leader for the retirement risk management group of Towers Watson & Co. in St. Louis. "A smaller plan is easier to manage and may require less action from …
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Grabbing a Seat: Developing CHROs in the 2000s and Today
… tackle topics such as benefits and compensation, the ability to oversee outsourced services, diversity issues, risk management , government regulations, change management and compliance issues. "The function has gotten leaner, yet the expectations …
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Johns Hopkins Shooting Spurs Improvements to Hospital's Workplace Violence Response Program
… back of the neck, killing her, and then shot himself. During a presentation at the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management 's 2012 conference in National Harbor, Maryland, Natterman said one of the hospital's critical failings was its …
