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Municipal Employee Handbooks
Weekly HR News – Municipal Employee Handbooks With the New Year comes new challenges, and one of those challenges is the employee handbook. An employee handbook is a valuable commun...
Get Required Workplace Posters for Cities – For Free
Weekly HR – Workplace Posters Required Workplace Posters for Cities – For Free Kentucky statutes and federal regulations enforced by agencies within the Department of Labor ...
City Information Reporting Deadline for City Clerks -- January 31
HR Weekly News City Information Reporting Deadline for City Clerks -- January 31 KRS 83A.085 requires the city clerk to provide to the Department for Local Government (DLG) a list containing th...
IRS Lowers Standard Mileage Reimbursement Rates for 2016
Mileage Reimbursement for 2016 For cities that use the IRS rate to reimburse for mileage, be aware that on January 1, 2016, the IRS lowered the standard mileage reimbursement rates. That rate went down from $0.575 ...
Changes to FMLA Effective March 27 Regarding Definition of Spouse
This article was published on the United States Department of Labor website at http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/spouse/index.htm. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FM...
Workplace Violence
Weekly HR – Workplace Violence How to Identify Workplace Violence Before It Turns Deadly Unfortunately, workplace violence does happen. Your job as an employer is to take steps now ...
Succession Planning - What is it and how can it help your city?
Weekly HR News – Hiring Practices Succession planning … What is it and how can it help your city? I’ve been asked to present on succession planning at the KL...
Applications, Interviews and Hiring
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Social Security Number Verification Service
The Social Security Administration (SSA) has posted an updated version of the Social Security Number Verification Service (SSNVS) Handbook for employers. Keep in ...
Handling Employee Affairs Via Email
Use of Email in City Government – Handling Employee Affairs The use of email by government officials often becomes headline news. It is important that city officials and employees keep in mind that ema...
Use of Email in City Govt.
Use of Email in City Government The use of email, especially personal email, by government officials has become the latest in headline news. Keep in mind that emails are like any other public record in that each on...
Types of Employees/Employment Relationships
EXEMPT and NONEXEMPT Tracking time for Exempt Employees - 5/28/15 Read More
Salary and Benefits- FMLA, FSLA
SALARY AND BENEFITS Salary and Benefits while on FMLA - Part 2 - 7/17/14 <...
Romance in the Workplace
Love is in the air! And unfortunately for cities, sometimes that love can come in the form of those in employee relationships. So what is an employer to do about these situations? Some employers choose to enact policies...
Preservation, Safekeeping and Retention- Part 4
Preservation, Safekeeping and Retention The last installment of this series addresses something that can be disastrous for a city. If not handled properly, manager desk files can wreak havoc with the city personnel...
Preservation, Safekeeping and Retention- Part 3
Preservation, Safekeeping and Retention, Part 3 In this, the third installment of the series, we will look at how to handle files of employees that are no longer with the city’s employment and also the hiring recor...
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