If you’ve been following the Olympics, the critical importance of bench strength cannot have escaped your attention. When a team loses a front-line athlete with everything on the line, performances by the team’s alternates can spell the difference between gold and no medal at all. The same is true in the hospitality business. You’ve staffed …
In the rapidly evolving arena of COVID workplace rules and guidelines, it’s tough to keep up on the latest standards employers must meet. The rules are cobbled together from various pronouncements from a handful of federal agencies, including the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and U.S. Food and Drug …
Pandemic protocols are running smack up against employee privacy protections as U.S. workplaces attempt to adapt to the new normal. And restaurants are caught squarely in the middle. New guidelines from the Occupational Safety & Health Administration, along with emerging state guidelines, indicate that restaurant managers will need to have one set of work rules …
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Ever since the pandemic struck, employers have had the ground cut out from under them. A year ago, they were scrambling to figure out how (or even if) they could get the work done remotely. For many, this was a tough learning curve. Now, a year later, managers face The Great Resignation. Getting the job …
If employers need more evidence that hiring is tough for everyone right now, research reports continue to emerge illustrating just how dire the situation has become. Thousands of employees are planning to look for new employers – especially those who are “stuck” in jobs that do not offer remote working opportunities. That’s one of the …
Employers across America and in every industry are, by now, aware of the difficulty involved in finding quality workers to meet the economic recovery’s growing demand. How bad are things, exactly? A relatively obscure measure of employment prospects, known as the Worker Availability Ratio (WAR), puts a number on the challenges of hiring quality employees …
Those in businesses like construction, warehousing, or hospitality are accustomed to the sudden increases in demand for services that call for quickly staffing up. This year, as the economy has rebounded, it should have been fairly easy to find the workers needed to be fully staffed. But many employers have found it difficult to attract …
Your hotel restaurant and banquet service had to shut down as the pandemic took its toll on the hospitality industry. Now, as the environment is shifting, you have been given the official green light to reopen. But can you do so with confidence, given the news reports of virus flare-ups, variants, and ineffective vaccines? You …
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The election of Joe Biden as president brought many new faces to Washington. One department head nominee that construction industry employers should be aware of: Doug Parker, the proposed new boss of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Parker most recently oversaw California’s OSHA division. Experts in jobsite safety trends predict that a Parker-led OSHA …
The COVID-19 pandemic converted thousands of office workers into home office workers. But not every job can be done remotely. If your gig happens to be warehousing, you need to be onsite. And if you are currently job-hunting, temping may be the right choice. While the pandemic did not convert your job to a remote …
