With the enactment of both the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) effective June 27, 2023, and the Nursing Mothers Act also known as the PUMP Act, covered employers should consider adding new policies to communicate …
It happens way too often. Employers put the onus of knowledge of role responsibilities and duties on the employees…without that precise information being previously shared with the employees.
On this week’s SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Raffaele Mautone, chief executive officer and founder of Judy Security.
FBS provides outpatient mental health therapy in their Marquette office and offers Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) services to individuals all over the Upper Peninsula.
If your workforce has lower literacy levels, it's important to adapt your communication strategies to ensure effective understanding and engagement.
While the likelihood of having to execute an emergency action plan is low, it’s certainly not zero. Everyone remembers evacuating the building when schools would have fire drills.
So, you’re a successful business owner. Congratulations! However, after years of growing your business, new challenges most likely lie ahead.
When designing your website and digital applications, it’s easy to get lost in things like visually pleasing aesthetics and billboard-worthy branding. After all, these are critical components to building an effective user experience.
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an executive order Wednesday creating a new Michigan Department of Lifelong Education, Advancement and Potential – or MiLEAP – to focus on preschool and postsecondary education.
Federal funds intended to stabilize the budgets of local communities have proven a daunting task to take down for multiple reasons, a recent policy survey by the University of Michigan found.
Catch up on the latest legislative issues and updates impacting Michigan small businesses.
On this episode of the SBAM Weekly Podcast, Michael Rogers talks with Art Betancourt, the founder of professional placement and executive recruiting firm AE Betancourt -- named to the list of Michigan 50 Companies to …
The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) protects covered employers' employees and applicants who have known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions.
LANSING, MI – The Small Business Association of Michigan (SBAM) announced today it has recently promoted three staff members to new positions and hired a new member on its policy […]
Process mapping is a performance improvement tool used to streamline or correct faulty processes. It can also be used to improve the human resource policy and practice processes in larger human resource functions.
Making sure that anyone giving permission for an employment background check understands what they are agreeing to is basic fairness, and unless an employer has some nefarious intent in mind for a background check, this …
If you’re not assessing literacy skills or actively working on developing your employees’ literacy skills, you may be setting yourself up for increased problems. Low literacy skills can lead to an increase in safety incidents, …
First there was Quiet Quitting, now there is Quiet Constraint – corporate America's current hidden threat at work.
