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Message From the President
2020 Focus Forward: Lead with Passion and Serve with Purpose.Providing encouragement and doing good for others. May is Mental Health Awareness Month. No one should be without the information and support to get the help they need. Stay mindful of mental health. Stay connected. If you or someone you k...
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Teaming Up with Tim Wells & Mel Jones: EEOC's Pandemic Guidance for Employers
Earlier this month, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated strategies and recommendations to the interim guidance for businesses and employers responding to Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). In addition to a table outlining the engineering controls, administrative controls a...
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SHRM St. Louis Spring Mentoring Update
The SHRM Saint Louis mentoring program kicked off our spring class this week with six pairs of mentors and protégés beginning their year-long work together. The mentoring program is focused on helping HR professionals accelerate their career growth by working with a seasoned SHRM memb...
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Member Spotlight: Mel Jones, VP of Membership
This month I had a chance to talk with Melissa “Mel” Jones, the chapter's Vice President of Membership. She is like a bright ball of happy energy that devotes time to helping grow our membership numbers and find ways of taking care of our current members.
Partnership with Human Resource...
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Welcome New Members
We would like to officially welcome our newest members! We hope to see you at our upcoming meetings!
Jeffrey Ilko, PHR, SHRM-CPAscension
Ed Travis, SPHR, SHRM-SCPHR DirectorThe Benefits Group
Elise SzarekHR SpecialistLuxco
Janer VarnerSenior HR SpecialistInsperi...
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Changing Safety Operations as an Essential Business During COVID-19
by Erika Plumlee
We have always known that our employees are essential to our business. And this year, we learned how essential we are to the economy. Lyons Blow Molding manufactures plastic bottles for the food, beverage and sanitation industries. I am their Human Resources Manager and “Depa...
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What Can HR Professionals do to Help Their Employees From a Retirement Plan Perspective
2020 is off to a rough start. First the COVID-19 issues have hit the economy hard and many companies are experiencing financial difficulty, causing furloughs, layoffs and terminations. While it has stabilized, the stock market experienced significant losses earlier in the year. As we write this, we ...
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Message From the President
April Showers bring May Flowers - how does your garden grow? If it were only that simple! During uncertain times and ever changing days, hours, and even sometimes minutes, we often forget to shift our attention to caretaking of our garden of words and actions, and unintentionally neglect to properly...
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Work-Teach-Parent: One Member's Tricks for Managing it All
I was on the phone with a co-worker when he stopped mid sentence and asked, “Do you have a bird?” I just laughed. “No,” I replied, “that's my 7-year old who is trying to ask me a question about math.” For the past two weeks, parenting and working are now coexistin...
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Teaming Up With Tim Wells & Mel Jones: FFCRA & What You Need to Know
As part of sweeping legislation, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) became effective April 1, 2020. As of right now, its requirements are in effect only until the end of the calendar year. The two laws were enacted to provide workers with paid leave for reasons related to the corona...
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