February 2024

North Bay HR professionals stress the importance of updating employee handbooks to reflect changes to employment law.

“The most important thing an employer does is smart hiring,” says ghassemieh. “It’s not about the widgets they sell. Employers sometimes don’t understand that, because many times they are just trying to get the work done. We all have a tendency to hire whomever we can to ease our pain quickly, but that hire may bring pain later. Bringing on the wrong person

into a company can be more painful than taking a bit more time to find the right one.” If a company has a toxic, underlying negative culture, says ghassemieh, what is the incentive for employees to remain engaged? “Some workers might decide they should just use their sick leave because they are not getting anything else out

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