SmallBiz Brainiac

Falls from ladders make up 20% of loss-workday and fatal injuries. Falls from heights and on the same level the work is being performed on, are very common and one of the leading causes of serious work-related injuries and deaths. How familiar are you with fall protection standards? OSHA estimates that, on average, approximately 202,066 serious…

What happens if one of your employees is using someone else’s SSN to work for you? Attorney Ben Mason of the law firm Morley Mason is here to help us sort through this issue. Ben obtained his law degree from the University of Idaho. According to his wife, he became a lawyer because he likes arguing with…

The problem is time management. The Solution is brining higher energy to the time we have at work. Will your company achieve better results if you push your employees to work long hours? Or, could you outperform those results if they actually worked fewer hours? What message are you communicating to your employees through your own actions? Are you…

Benefits for small employers, what’s the right offering for your employees? Today’s expert panel member is Kris Hansberger, the Director of HR and Employee Benefits for Vensure Employer Services, Inc., a Chandler, AZ based Professional Employer Organization. Under her direction Vensure provides benefits administration and HR services to hundreds of clients and over 40,000 co-employees. She’s also responsible…

One of these terminations involved sex, drugs and rock & roll. In this episode we share examples of terminations we’ve conducted and the lessons we learned from them. For an unknown reason my audio goes alien on me at about 8 minutes into the show. I didn’t realize it until the editing process, and I…

Because terminations are hard, we often wait too long to let people go. The new year is a good time to consider what terminations may be necessary due to: Employee performance Expense reductions Streamline or consolidate responsibilities and duties. Budget constraints requiring you to reluctantly let good people go Holiday hangover – maybe you’ve been hanging on to someone…

This show is designed around the small business owner. It’s my goal to educate you about the many duties, responsibilities and obligations you have as an employer. I also want to provide you with answers to your questions, and solutions to your problems. So, if you have any employer related questions, all you have to do is…

I’ve decided to make some changes to the SmallBiz Brainiac show.  My last episode was on December 15th and I told you that I was going to take the next two weeks off to plan for 2017.   And that’s what I did. I also took my daughter and nieces to see the movie Sing.…

The Heritage Foundation’s 2016 Index of Economic Freedom has the U.S. at number #11 this year. We were #8 in 2010 and #5 in 2008 This will be the last episode of 2016. I’m going to take the next two weeks off to focus on preparing the show and my business for 2017. It’s been…

The new direction of the DOL is the opposite of where they’re headed today. Andrew Puzder has been nominated by Trump to be the new Secretary of Labor. This is a huge departure from the traditional bureaucrat who lacks private sector experience. Certainly he is a stark contrast to the current Secretary, Thomas Perez, a lawyer,…