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April 24, 2017 Edition
Focus on Health Care & Wellness

Corporate teams blend work and (hopefully) fun

Laurie Schreiber

As corporate challenges become more widespread, there's a another key factor that goes with the charitable giving: team building.

  • How To's
    How To's

    How to: Count steps and create a healthier, happier workplace

    Andrew Silsby

    Keeping track of exercise and activity levels using fitness trackers has become immensely popular over the last few years. Harnessing this popularity in the workplace has benefits that reach far beyond physical fitness.

  • How To's
    How To's

    How to: Manage passionate and emotional employees

    Nancy Marshall

    When I was in my 20s, fresh out of Colby College, I was even more full of ideas and energy than I am now. I came to work every day brimming with new ideas on how to make things better, sell more and do more.

  • Opinion
    Opinion

    New challenges for HR professional

    As if Maine businesses didn't already have their hands full trying to find employees, along come some new challenges.

Today's Poll

Does your company plan to add staff in the next 6 months?
Poll Description

Sponsored by Kennebunk Savings Bank

Next year will bring a host of new challenges for businesses looking to add employees to the payroll. 

Maine's Paid Family and Medical Leave law will go into effect, which will allow an employee to take paid leave for up to 12 weeks to care for an ill family member or new child, for instance.

The state's minimum wage will increase by 45 cents an hour, to $15.10 (a separate minimum wage provision was approved in Portland that will raise the hourly compensation to $19 within three years).

And rising health care premiums will continue to be a struggle for employers.

For companies that plan to grow, all of these factors will have to be managed.

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