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New Employee Orientation—Delegating the Wrong Tasks

Is your new employee orientation plan as sharp as your formal training program?

General, Hiring Practices  •  August 31, 2009

Task Force Begins Look at Employee Misclassification in Maine

I have reviewed hundreds of construction jobsites over the years. Inevitably, owners ask me what can be done about the illegal use of subcontractors. Specifically, they vent about their competition classifying their employees as subcontractors and th...

Construction, Hiring Practices  •  March 11, 2009

Trouble for Hire

Every outfit, from a residential contractor to a restaurant to manufacturing plant, knows that their success and stability lies within their employees. Yet there are still businesses, usually small to midsized, that set themselves up to fail because ...

General, Hiring Practices, Leadership and Management  •  July 14, 2008

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