Employer's Guide to Managing Personnel Costs

The Employer's Guide to Managing Personnel Costs is a clear and comprehensive employment law and strategy manual for today's business owner, office manager, or HR professional. it gives employers a basic legal background in areas that affect human resource management. The Employer's Guide to Managing Personnel Costs focuses on five areas of human resource management and suggests practical steps employers can take to manage their costs while complying with the law. Areas discussed are: Effective Personnel Mangagement: hiring, firing, and retention; employing people who have disabilities; recruiting nontraditional job applicants; telecommuting; and performance reviews Unemployment: handling claims and appeals; discussion of unemployment compensation for new parents Workers' Compensation controlling medical and disability costs, investigating claims, and instituting safety programs Managing Employee Disputes internal grievance procedures, arbitration, mediation, guidance on conducting a disciplinary meeting Included are appendices of federal and state labor law, equal employment opportunity, unemployment, occupational safety, and workers' compensation agenciesPotts, Michele A. is the author of 'Employer's Guide to Managing Personnel Costs' with ISBN 9781567590746 and ISBN 1567590748.