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10 New Business Books to Add to Your Summer Reading List

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Legal Guide for Starting & Running a Small Business (18th ed.) By Stephen Fishman Publisher: Nolo This new edition, updated to reflect recent changes to the law, now includes some best practices for how to run your business and handle legal issues relating to insurance, employees and more. The P.A.I.D.

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Employee Handbook: What, When, and Everything Around It

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It mostly covers topics such as: Health insurance. State laws and legal documents, etc. ” It is simple yet quite effective, enabling employees to solve their problems with a creative and sound approach. Vacation time. Dress codes and human resource importance. The handbook can be in digital form or paper-based.

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my cost-of-living raise doesn’t cover my increased costs of living, my office has a mold problem, and more

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It turns out that the cost of our health insurance plan increased, as did the taxes in this region, and that negated any “cost of living” adjustments that were made, leaving me with less net income than before. rents go up, things cost more, taxes have gone up, health insurance rates increase).

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employee clique is causing problems, employer will pay me more if I work as a contractor, and more

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An employee clique is causing problems. You’re seeing this as a social issue (and trying to solve it from that angle), but it’s not. That’s like trying to solve a sore throat by putting a cast on your knee. He said if I only waived health insurance could he offer $60k. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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my mom tells me to go to work sick, never take time off, and fear being fired every day

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Also, a few years ago my mom had so much PTO accrued that HR told her that she legally had to take time off or cash in some PTO because she had worked too many hours. Vacation time is a benefit that you’ve earned, just like wages or health insurance. We went on a 10-day Barcelona vacation with her cashed-in PTO.

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it’s your Friday good news

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1. “Three months ago I was summarily fired by my main employer (75% of my job, health insurance, 401(k) match, etc.). A Zoom meeting I thought was going to fine tune my role was instead him reading from a legal statement about laying me off as of that day. It’s your Friday good news! I was completely blindsided and stunned.

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requiring video during team meetings, telling someone we’re not hiring them back, and more

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There are lots of legit reasons for someone to turn their video off — like bandwidth problems (especially if they share a network with other household members), or they’re eating and don’t want that on camera, or they share space with someone who doesn’t want to be on their video feed. Can I require them to keep the video on?