Practical Tips on State and Federal Labor Law Posters

Since businesses in every state of the country today are required to post state and federal labor law posters, there is a great demand for services that readily offer the posters. There has recently been a great increase in the number of companies that offer labor law poster packages, and these companies ship the ready-to-display labor law posters right to your doorstep. Common options are for labor law posters to be fully laminated or framed to ensure the safety of the posters from people who may want to sabotage, change, or remove them.

Employers are now slowly realizing the importance of these labor law posters and the consequences that await them should they fail to comply. This is why most employers today either resort to hiring lawyers to take care of all their needs and requirements with regards to state and federal labor law posters or get labor law poster packages from poster service companies.

However, employers must be aware that as the number of service companies is increasing, the number of scam labor law poster artists is also increasing. These are the companies or people who do everything to earn money the easiest way through fooling employers into thinking that they provide authentic labor law posters.

For busy employers, it can be quite hard to find the most trustworthy service company that gives you authentic labor law posters and keeps you rightfully updated. More often, some employers simply settle for the first advertisement or the most popular advertisement.

Another famous situation today is that employers are made to believe that they have outdated state and federal labor law posters and that they have to settle a fine for that. Because business owners are extremely busy and hate to face any court charges, they will simply oblige and pay the fine. This is the reason why we have always encouraged employers to only partner up with qualified labor law poster providers.

How to Protect Your Business

Labor law posters are mandated by the government to provide protection to both employees and employers. State and federal labor law posters give clear information on everything that is important to employees and employers to ensure that every person’s right is protected.

To help you protect your business even more, here are some worthy tips employers must always keep in mind:

• Always check a service provider with the Better Business Bureau for verification purposes.

• Always investigate an unproven track record.

• Choose a service provider who is truly knowledgeable of the labor laws and not just provide posters.

• It would be the best if your service provider has its own labor lawyer who interprets and regulates labor law changes.

• The posters it offers must meet the exact specifications with regards to layout, poster size, font size, and even color.

• Choose a provider who offers unlimited protection from fines because this ensures that the provider is extremely confident that it is always updated with labor law changes.

• Never buy labor law posters from a random person who does door-to-door poster selling.

State and federal labor law posters are extremely important for every employer today. As a result, please post the necessary posters and protect the overall welfare of your company, and keep in mind of what is happening in the industry today with regards to posting requirements and situations.

Right-to-Work Law Gives Workers Reason to Celebrate on Labor Day

Labor Day 2013 certainly is a time to celebrate.

Workers across Michigan finally have the freedom to choose whether they want to pay dues or fees to a union as a condition of employment.

They get to decide if the hundreds of dollars (or more) they spend each year on dues or fees is best handed over to union executives for unknown and weakly documented expenses or kept at home and saved or used to fix leaky pipes, buy a new computer or go on a vacation.

They get to decide if they want to support a union that assumes all workers think the same, have the same values and support only one party in politics.

The freedom that workers get when their contracts expire and they can exercise their rights doesn’t spell the end for unions, or at least not the attentive ones. It begins an era of accountability. Unions now have to listen closely to their consumers or those consumers will walk away. It’s not such a novel concept, but it took decades to happen in Michigan.

Yes, for workers in Michigan, today certainly is a good day to celebrate.

Not surprisingly, some unions are clinging hard to the past. Look no further than the McProtests (apologies to McDonald’s) occurring in Detroit, Flint and select cities across the nation.

Fast food workers were told by "community organizers" cloaked in SEIU purple that they're not being paid enough and that they are being treated unfairly.

In a series of camera ready events, protesters briefly took to the streets last week to decry the conditions they've chosen to work in. They demanded $15 an hour and chanted about all the things that one would expect from a carefully organized union protest: fairness, corporate excess and equality.

There is nothing magical, logical or realistic about $15 an hour. After all, if $15 an hour is good, $30 an hour is better, right? Or $60?

Of course not, and unions know this as well as the companies that have to make payroll. Unskilled, entry level jobs were never meant to be career choices. They are gateway jobs where people gain the trust of others, share in the responsibility of a work environment, learn to communicate and pick up skills they use to get better jobs. 

Arbitrarily propping up wages leads to failure. Economists across the political spectrum have concluded that increases in the minimum wage hurt unskilled workers the most. Additionally, state's that have right-to-work laws, which don't force union members to pay dues or fees as a condition of employment, do better economically over time, according to a new study from the Mackinac Center for Public Policy.

The protests weren’t really about providing a living wage or punishing corporate CEOs. They were about padding union membership rolls, which is a dire necessity for unions these days given the declines in membership and interest in worker freedom here and across the nation.

Threats, hyperbole, intimidation and protests may have worked in the past, but times have changed. Michigan is a right-to-work state and workers have freedom.

Those are good reasons to celebrate.

Source from: http://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/19083