LAFAYETTE, Colo.—August 8, 2018—KPA (“the Company”), a leader in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Risk Management, today announced that Providence Equity Partners (“Providence”) has completed its majority investment in the Company. Existing investor CIVC Partners will retain a minority investment…
Q: Does our owner have the legal right to tell our sales and service staff that they must make a certain number of calls per week to be employed? Can we fire someone for not following this rule? A: If…
I recently had the pleasure to moderate KPA's first HRCI approved human resources webinar, "Sexual Harassment & #MeToo," presented by Alec Beck, a partner at FordHarrison. Yep, it's a topic that continues to make waves and, judging by all the…
Q: We had an employee who went on FMLA which recently ended. We kept him employed, but on additional leave, for another month. At that time, he informed us that his doctor told him he could not come back to work…
Q: We have a salesperson who drives a company vehicle for work. He was given a DUI, but hasn't been convicted yet. He's also been issued a temporary driver's license to drive and has to drive as part of his employment. What are our…
Q: Do we have to continue to pay active service members while they are completing their duty time? A: No you do not have to pay them, but you must allow them the time off required to complete annual training/ deployments…
Acquisition of foremost F&I audit services firm enables leading EHS company to be the single source for automotive compliance LAFAYETTE, Colo.—June 26, 2018—KPA Services, LLC, a leader in Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) Risk Management, announced today the acquisition of…
Q: We have a new employee who will live and work out of Texas for the time being. We don’t have any other company representatives in that state to verify his I-9 documents. How do we handle this? A: When…
What did your best managers do well? What type of manager do you want to be? What gets in the way? These poignant questions were the icebreakers at a SNP Manager Mojo Training that I recently attended. Our group was…
Q: We have an employee on his third year of FMLA and he takes intermittent leave for treatments and doctors appointments. We are having to pay his department staff overtime to compensate for his hours not worked. How can we…
