Infectious Disease

Employee absences are more detrimental to your business than you might realize. And when workers call in sick, the impact on your business isn't just financial.

Make sure you don’t discourage a staff member from staying home with a fever of 102?.

A round of the common cold or flu in a small business can be much more than an inconvenience.

The other day I went into Homegrown Bagels in Sonoma, since I had some time to kill and thought a toasted bagel might be a good way to waste it. I hadn't been...

If your plan already complies tell employees you already had these provisions before PPACA required them:

Suddenly out of nowhere a deep throated hack breaks the mood of the dining room. Guests turn their heads in unison towards the kitchen as the sous continues his phlegm filled chorus while...

May is National Fibromyalgia month. Chances are you know someone who suffers from this disease but you may not be aware of it because Fibromyalgia is known as the invisible condition. Help keep...

Thanks to the mobile handset the world has gotten a little smaller

What happens if you wake up one morning and find that your zip code has been deemed a pandemic area for the swine flu and that no one can get in and no...

Social networking can be used to help build your career, but you have to follow certain steps.

While standing in the check-out line at Sonoma Market last Tuesday a woman sneezed, mouth uncovered, and sprayed a wide swath of flu germs across the credit card processing machine. As soon as...

Knowing what you or your business can be liable for is powerful information. Unfortunately, the policies that can help guide employees about the legal dos and don'ts are too often viewed as roadblocks...

More and more people are telling their credit card companies to stick it. Are they heroes? Or unbalanced?

What at first blush appears to be solely a health concern on closer examination has a number of legal ramifications for the workplace.

In sales your voice is the best tool you have. Protect it.

As the nation prepares for a potentially broader outbreak of the H1N1 flu this fall and winter, the government is reaching out to small business owners to help defend against the impact and...

VOIP has come to the iPhone

This week the US issued updated federal guidance to offer businesses and employers a range of options for responding to H1N1, depending on how severe the flu may be in their communities