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		<title>Warrants have been served&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Maricopa County Sheriffs Office served search warrants this morning on an East Valley landscaping business called&#160; Artistic Plant Management. The warrants were served for alleged violations of the employer sanctions law that went into effect at the beginning of 2008.&#160; According to the East Valley Tribune, Sheriffs detained close to 3 dozen people.&#160; Sherrif [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lower Deductible Doesn&#8217;t Always Help</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Many employees look at their benefits package and judge it based on how little they have to spend on Copays and Deductibles.&#160; That is obviously an important detail to know before signing up for a benefit, but not the only detail.&#160; There are a lot of other plan features to consider when choosing a plan, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A BIGGER Salary is not always a good thing</title>
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Everyone always thinks a bigger salary equals a better life, more security, and that one will just be all around happier. Unfortunately this might not be true anymore. According to a recent article on CareerBuilder.com this is an idea that one should think about a little more closely. The article gives&#160;four clear points to back [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tips for Trade Shows: You might not know everything</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As the new marketing coordinator here at CBR, one of my initiatives or goals has been trying to think of new and creative ways to make us stand out at trade shows. Aside from my own ideas, I came across a very interesting article in the Phoenix Business Journal about how to do just this. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HR Affects PR?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Larger companies are always trying to come up with ways to get their name in lights when it comes to PR (public relations), and rightfully so.&#160; I wonder if they have considered the power behind taking care of good employees and the good PR that it brings to their business, not to mention the top [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pro vs. Con of Wellness Programs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pro vs. Con of Wellness Programs

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Although we have blogged about wellness programs before, over the last few weeks I have seen numerous articles and statistics about these programs in the workplace. It seems to be a new trend that HR professionals should start to take note of, or should they? I would like to present [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TGIT Thank God its Thursday</title>
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As we all know by now, gas prices are on the rise. As they are not declining any time soon, many companies are converting to the &#8220;4 day work week.&#8221; Whether companies decide to allow their employees to telecommute once a week, or fit their employees 40 hour work week into 4 days (10 hours [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Immigration not just a US Problem</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As an HR company, we discuss and inform about issues of immigration and laws pertaining to it on a regular basis, but we must remember that immigration has never been uniquely American. As a global traveler, I have witnessed first hand the extreme effects that immigration has on European residents.  When I was living [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Does your employee handbook have a hands-free cell phone policy yet?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By&#160;July 1, 2008 it should, becuase motorist will no longer be permitted to drive while talking on their handheld cellular phones.&#160;&#160;The new law going&#160;into effect will fine drivers $20 for their first infraction and $50 there after.&#160;Drivers 18 and over are permitted to use a hands-free device or BLUETOOTH device as long as both ears [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I can’t let him go, but I don’t have a choice… or do I?!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[With these slow times, many business owners find themselves in quite a predicament&#8230;&#160;
&#8220;I need to cut cost&#8221; and &#8220;we do not have enough work to justify our current workforce so naturally, I should let some people go&#8230;&#8221;&#160;&#160;&#160;
Here is where it gets tricky: many of these companies&#8217; employee highly skilled workers with specialized training.&#160; Some of [...]]]></description>
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