Compensation mythbusters

You’ll find a few compensation myths listed. You may not have known that these statements aren’t true, and that’s okay. This article is being written to explain the truth behind the myths.

  Managing tricky FMLA situations

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is a federal law that provides job-protected leave for eligible employees. Qualifying FMLA leave can be taken intermittently, and this may sometimes create cumbersome tracking for managers, especially if you never know when the employee will be absent.

  Employees benefit from clear performance expectations

It’s common for supervisors to overlook one of the most essential concepts for ensuring good performance: setting performance expectations. However, taking the time to set and communicate clear expectations can help eliminate many performance problems.

  Purdue Temporary Staffing

Human Resource Services has made the difficult decision to discontinue the Purdue Temporary Staffing (PTS) service as of March 4, 2007. This decision results from the need to reallocate our current PTS staff to cover high-priority initiatives in Human Resource Services.

  Got OnePurdue questions?
Get OnePurdue answers.

If you or your staff members completed training for the OnePurdue financial system, you likely have logged in and gotten some work done since the system opened for business February 6. If everything has gone well for you, congratulations! If you ran into a glitch or two, the OnePurdue team hopes that you found the help you needed right away.

   

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