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Does your company have a lot of Spanish-speaking workers but not a lot of wall space?

GovDocs is expanding our line of Spanish-language products by offering a combined poster that features Spanish-language State and Federal postings on one convenient format.

GovDocs Spanish Combined State and Federal Posters provide your Spanish-speaking workers a central location to view their employee rights.

Here are a few ways Spanish Combined State and Federal Posters can benefit you and your locations:

• Access to Labor Laws for Spanish-Speaking Employees. The GovDocs Spanish Combined State and Federal Posters contain only agency-provided Spanish translations of postings (totaling 34 states).
• Easier for Location Managers. The Combined format – similar to our current English Combined State and Federal Posters – helps reduce the number of labor law compliance postings for location managers to handle.
• Compact Format Saves Wall Space. The GovDocs Spanish Combined State and Federal Posters range from 25”x32” to 25”x40” (depending on the state).

To purchase Spanish Combined State and Federal Posters, visit GovDocs Labor Law Poster Store and receive a 20% discount with code Spanish20.

Yes, they can.

Due to the increase of disabled military veterans looking for employment, the Department of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP), is responding to an influx of questions about service animals in the workplace.

Service animals can be used for people who become disabled by Panic Disorders, Depression, and PTSD. They can also be used as guide dogs, mobility assistance dogs, hearing alert dogs, diabetic and seizure alert dogs, as well as Autism service dogs. But can your employer really tell you that you can’t bring your service animal with you to work?

The word tattoo comes from the Tahitian term ‘Tatatau’ or ‘tattau’ meaning to hit or strike. This form of body alteration has been dated back 5,200 years with the 1991 discovery of the ‘Copper Age’ Iceman from the Italian-Austrian border. The Iceman had a pattern of dots and small crosses on his lower spine, right knee and ankle which coincided with areas of strain-induced bone degeneration. Researchers believe those dots may have been used as medical treatment to reduce pain.

Female mummies discovered in Egypt with tattoos had once been dismissed by excavators as ‘having the mark of a prostitute,’ but those marks are now being viewed as remedial and a permanent form of talisman during pregnancy and birth. The net-like pattern of dots found around the abdomens of the female mummies are believed to ‘expand in a protective fashion similarly to the way bead nets were placed over wrapped mummies to protect them and "keep everything in".’

To Hide or Not To Hide Tattoos in the Modern Workplace

With one out of every five adults in the U.S. sporting at least one tattoo, employers are seeing more workers and applicants with Tweety Birds and barbed wire body art. While the tattooed workers view their ink as a form of self-expression, many employers see tattoos as potentially offensive to customers and to other workers.

Tattoos: Freedom of Expression versus Corporate Image

Your co-workers pungent cologne isn’t the only thing that can fire up your daily headache. Many products commonly found throughout a typical office setting can have an effect as well. Cleaning products, ink, pesticides (i.e. insect repellent, etc.), markers, carpeting, paint, mineral spirits, and copier toner can be troublesome for a person with environmental sensitivity. However proving that you actually suffer from an environmental or chemical sensitivity can create another headache altogether.

An estimated 45 million Americans suffer from chemical sensitivity, yet workers affected by workplace irritants may have difficulties receiving reasonable accommodation from their employers.