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Skills HR Professionals Need to Lead and Influence Change

Skills HR Professionals Need to Lead and Influence Change

July 1, 2016  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Administration and Management

This blog post highlights the key challenges that Human Resources professionals face and the skills needed to meet those challenges.

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Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees, Part 4: Establishing Clear Policies

Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees, Part 4: Establishing Clear Policies

August 18, 2015  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Leave Policies

Part 4 in this series provides some review, guidelines for establishing clear policies, summation, and attempt to wrap up the subject for now.

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Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees, Part 3: Some Recommendations

Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees, Part 3: Some Recommendations

June 9, 2015  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Leave Policies

MRSC HR Advisor Cabot Dow continues his series on sick leave with some policy recommendations for reducing abuse of sick leave.

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Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees, Part 2: Framework for Issue Assessment

Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees, Part 2: Framework for Issue Assessment

April 10, 2015  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Leave Policies

This is part two of a four-part series on the subject of sick leave benefits for local government employees, focusing on identifying issues to think about and questions to discuss regarding paid sick leave benefits.

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Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees Part 1: An Overview

Sick Leave Benefits for Local Government Employees Part 1: An Overview

March 2, 2015  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Leave Policies

This blog post (written before Washington's sick leave law was passed) provides an introduction to local government sick leave policies.

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A Review of Labor Contracts, the Labor Negotiations Process, and Costing Issues

March 31, 2014  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Collective Bargaining

This post discusses a framework for reviewing existing labor contract issues and provisions, guidelines for nagivating the negotiation process, and resources for costing out labor contract provisions.

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What's Important Now?

August 31, 2013  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Collective Bargaining

A simple but powerful acronym that comes from the well-known and entertaining football coach and ESPN commentator Lou Holtz is W.I.N. In the gospel according to Lou Holtz, it stands for 'What's Important Now?'

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Gain Sharing Strategy

April 30, 2012  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  Guest Author ,  Collective Bargaining

As economic and political change happens, sharing the challenge of dividing up a smaller pie in good faith, while adhering to carefully weighed guiding principles, leads to more mutually beneficial outcomes, going forward. This column will address in more detail four subtopics...

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Labor Relations Policy Development: New Balance is Smaller Concessions

March 1, 2012  by  Cabot Dow
Category:  HR Advisor

This 2011 blog post focuses on significant differences between past and present environments in which labor contracts are negotiated, with an emphasis on smaller concessions.

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