Articles & Papers

This article appeared in the July/August 2019 edition of the Merit Shop Contractor Magazine. Justice Kelly, endorsed by ABC of Wisconsin, highlights his thoughts on what it takes to uphold the [...]

While the focus of the job description is to communicate the expectation of a position, it goes beyond the details required to perform a job successfully. It can be used as a tool for many [...]

When election season rolls around, you will likely grow more concerned with how that expression might affect workplace productivity, morale, safety, not to mention your company’s brand or [...]

Falls have been and remain the number one cause of fatalities in construction. Falls cause one of every three construction worker deaths. These injuries and fatalities occur from falls from [...]

In a continuing tight labor market and ongoing war for talent, it is important to ensure you are not cutting any corners in your onboarding processes with new employees. Just as the recruiting [...]

Our traditional approach to difficult employees is to march down the path of progressive discipline – oral warning, written warning, suspension, and termination. It seems we are often more [...]

In Wisconsin, most worker compensation cases settle. Understand that employees may have six or 12 years, or an unlimited time to bring a claim, depending on the type of injury ...

Any type of audit can be intimidating, but an in-depth look at your HR function to assess the level of compliance and effectiveness of policies, procedures and programs, may be one of your best [...]

Falls cause one of every three construction worker deaths. These injuries and fatalities occur from falls from roofs, scaffolds, ladders, bridges and other work surfaces. None of the efforts to [...]

There are several well known management methods that take a positive approach to improve working environments.