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Jul 25, 2019
Join the SHRM Certification Ambassador Program!
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Jul 25, 2019
SHRM-certified HR professionals in the era of the #MeToo movement have the responsibility and obligation to design policies and educate our workforces on sexual harassment, retaliation, bullying and hostile work environments.
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Jul 25, 2019
Answers to frequently asked questions about maintaining your SHRM credential.
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Jul 22, 2019
Gossiping. Backstabbing. Falling morale. Fading respect for leaders. What workplace event could cause all these things? An extramarital affair. Romances between co-workers, and extramarital affairs especially, tend to raise eyebrows. So how is a manager or HR director supposed to deal with it?
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Jul 22, 2019
The IRS added treatments for a range of chronic conditions to the list of preventive-care benefits for which a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) can pay—even if a plan enrollee's health care spending hasn't surpassed the plan deductible—without running afoul of the rules allowing pretax contributions to health savings accounts (HSAs). The change is expected to make HDHP/HSA plans more attractive.
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Jul 22, 2019
Leap years, such as 2020, can be a headache for HR and payroll professionals—resulting in an extra payday in the calendar year, depending on when and how employees are paid. The problem of an extra pay period, however, isn't exclusive to leap years.
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Jul 22, 2019
Ace Your SHRM Certification Exam: A Guide to Success on the SHRM-CP® and SHRM-SCP® Exams, is a new guidebook to help you understand and prepare for the tests.
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Jul 19, 2019
SHRM Online spoke with Leland T. "Lee" Jourdan—the company's chief diversity officer for Global Diversity and Ombuds Center of Expertise at Chevron since 2018—about the company's diversity and inclusion initiatives. He has been in the energy industry since 1983 and at Chevron for 16 years.
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Jul 19, 2019
Department of Labor Secretary Alex Acosta's resignation July 12 preceded a busy week for the federal government, including House bills repealing the so-called "Cadillac tax" and pushing a $15 minimum wage by 2025.
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Jul 19, 2019
The planned European Union Restructuring Directive will enable companies that need to restructure to take measures at a very early stage and possibly avert insolvency. In Germany, concrete proposals can be expected soon and will affect the rights of employees and their representatives.
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Jul 19, 2019
The jarring costs of a college degree, the years of commitment and the repercussions that academic choices can have on earnings potential leave many regretting their educational choices.
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Jul 19, 2019
?The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) made it easier for employers to stop bargaining for future labor contracts when they have evidence that a union no longer has workers' support.
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Jul 19, 2019
?President Donald Trump announced July 18 that he intends to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late U.S. Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next secretary of labor.
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Jul 19, 2019
Because employers typically set the transactional tone at the start of the employment relationship, they shouldn't be surprised by what they consider a lack of employee commitment or perseverance. After all, one of the first things a new employee is asked to do is acknowledge that she has no contractual rights.
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Jul 19, 2019
The United Kingdom (U.K.) Government Equalities Office has published a gender equality roadmap, which sets out proposed actions to tackle persistent inequities. This includes a number of potential changes to employment law.
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Jul 19, 2019
A growing number of wellness programs are making sweeping claims about how their offerings. To help sort fact from fiction, here are three questions to ask wellness program vendors.
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Jul 18, 2019
Mistakes are useful. A report published in Scientific American found that our brains actually grow as we learn from our mistakes. They build paths that eventually lead to success if we leverage that information properly. In other words, we should celebrate mistakes because they get us one step closer to our desired outcome.
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Jul 18, 2019
New York employers should be aware of sweeping changes to the state's employment laws impacting settlement and separation agreements, employment-related litigation, and hiring and pay practices.
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Jul 18, 2019
Providing employees with onsite health care has helped companies tamp down rising health coverage costs while reducing employees' time off the job to visit doctors' offices. Even small employers have opportunities to offer employees access to onsite or nearby health care services, with options ranging from clinics shared with other local businesses to telehealth kiosks at work.
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Jul 18, 2019
A 21 percent service charge added by a banquet hall operator to the facility's food and beverage bills may be a gratuity, which California law requires to go to nonmanagerial employees who serve food and beverages, a California appellate court ruled.
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Jul 18, 2019
The gig economy is getting a lot of attention these days—some good, some not so good. Gig work is increasingly attractive to a growing percentage of the workforce, particularly Millennials and members of Generation Z, who value autonomy, flexibility and work/life balance. It can also provide benefits to employers that may not need full-time staff year-round or that may be struggling to fill jobs.
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Jul 18, 2019
?The U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill that would gradually raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour over the next six years. However, the bill is not likely to be considered in the Republican-controlled Senate.
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Jul 18, 2019
Virtually all Fortune 500 companies offer diversity training to their employees. Yet surprisingly few of them have measured its impact. What would happen if we created a training program and rigorously tested its effects?
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Jul 17, 2019
Here are some ways your organization can commit to creating a workforce that is welcoming to older workers.
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Jul 17, 2019
The U.S. House of Representatives voted on July 17 to abolish the so-called "Cadillac tax" on employer-sponsored high-value health plans, set to take effect in 2022. If the Senate passes the measure and the president signs it into law, the threat employers have faced from the tax would disappear.
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Jul 17, 2019
People are living longer, and there are more older people in the workforce and looking for work. The time is ripe for organizations to make age part of their diversity and inclusion strategies, noted panelists at The Future of Work for All Generations conference that AARP recently hosted in Washington, D.C.
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Jul 17, 2019
The HR department has a big stake in ensuring that an organization's promotions process is well-managed, by helping to guide employees' career paths, maintaining clear policies and keeping workers engaged when they're not promoted.
Poor promotions practices can create dissatisfaction, high turnover and even charges of discrimination if people believe they've been passed over unfairly
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Jul 17, 2019
A trial is warranted under the Americans with Disabilities Act when the employer's supervisors are alleged to have directly discriminated against and failed to accommodate an employee suffering from episodic panic attacks and depression, a federal district court ruled.
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Jul 17, 2019
Teenage workers can be a source of seasonal or part-time labor for businesses looking to fill entry-level jobs. But managing these young employees can also present challenges, especially if it's their first experience in the workforce.
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Jul 17, 2019
Teenage workers can be a source of seasonal or part-time labor for businesses looking to fill entry-level jobs. But managing these young employees can also present challenges, especially if it's their first experience in the workforce.
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Jul 16, 2019
A chart of leave laws by state.
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Jul 16, 2019
Texas workplace labor and employment law poster chart.
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Jul 16, 2019
Social media use creates opportunities for organizations when hiring, but there's also the risk that it could undermine employee productivity and expose employers to liability or reputational damage.
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Jul 16, 2019
Cybersecurity training must regularly cover topics around cybersecurity risks and how to handle them if employers hope to change workers' behavior, according to the State of the Phish 2019 report.
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Jul 16, 2019
The Washington Supreme Court held that obesity is a protected class under the state's anti-discrimination law. The decision runs counter to recent federal court decisions in other parts of the country.
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Jul 16, 2019
Gov. Kate Brown recently signed a law into effect that will provide 12 weeks of paid leave to just about every employee in the state. Here's what Oregon employers need to know about this groundbreaking new law.
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Jul 16, 2019
Gov. Phil Murphy recently signed into law amendments to the state's medical marijuana law that provide greater clarity on workplace issues but creates additional obligations for employers.
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Jul 16, 2019
The corner office has long been coveted real estate in the workplace. It affords privacy, often features a window and sends a clear message about status. When you hold the keys to the corner office, you've made it to the top. So why are some CEOs and other executives turning in their keys to private offices and choosing instead to work in more-open and communal spaces?
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Jul 16, 2019
This week's letter-writer wants to move into management, but doesn't see opportunities at his current job. Columnist Martin Yate offers advice on how job-seekers with this goal should craft their resumes and which jobs they should look for.
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Jul 15, 2019
The IRS has proposed a rule that would make 401(k) multiemployer plans (MEPs) more attractive, especially for small employers, by addressing the risk posed to a MEP by one employer member's bad actions. The rule complements a Department of Labor proposal to ease the way for "open" MEPs among employers who don't share a common industry or location.
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Jul 15, 2019
The Department of Labor's (DOL's) newly proposed apprenticeship programs would be available to certified industry groups, schools, nonprofits and unions and would be largely free from regulatory oversight.
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Jul 15, 2019
The IRS has proposed a rule that would make 401(k) multiemployer plans (MEPs) more attractive, especially for small employers, by addressing the risk posed to a MEP by one employer member's bad actions. The rule complements a previous proposal to ease the way for "open" MEPs among employers who don't share a common industry or location.
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Jul 15, 2019
Amazon has announced plans to retrain 100,000 workers—almost one-third of its U.S. workforce—by 2025. The more than $700 million initiative amounts to a $7,000 investment per employee.
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Jul 15, 2019
The popularity of remote work is rising fast. Multiple research studies show that employees who are able to skip commuting and work away from the office, whether at home, a coffee shop or somewhere in between, are happier, more productive and less likely to jump ship. But overseeing a team of remote employees doesn't come naturally to many managers, who are accustomed to seeing their employees in the office at least a few days each week. Some even question how they can know if people working away from the office are really working.
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Jul 12, 2019
Complying with marijuana laws and understanding their impact on the workplace is tricky for multistate employers, but even the laws in a single state can be difficult to navigate.
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Jul 12, 2019
A work environment where never is heard a discouraging word can hurt an organization when employees are afraid they will be seen as combative or rocking the boat if they voice an opposing opinion or concern.
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Jul 12, 2019
Employers can now ban nonemployee union representatives from organizing in public spaces on their property—so long as their policies are applied consistently to all nonemployees.
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Jul 12, 2019
To protect people from identity theft, the IRS issued a final rule that will let employers shorten employees' Social Security numbers on Form W-2 statements distributed to employees, beginning in 2021.
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Jul 12, 2019
Kentucky employers that don't hire a lawyer to contest unemployment compensation claims will need to review their policies and practices in light of a recent state appellate court decision.
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Jul 12, 2019
Secretary Alexander Acosta, under fire for securing a plea deal for convicted pedophile and newly indicted Jeffrey Epstein, resigned his post under pressure today, leaving as acting secretary a man who's considered more aggressively pro-business than Acosta.
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Jul 12, 2019
Employers can expect to see change more quickly at the Department of Labor (DOL), including issuance of a final overtime rule perhaps as soon as by the end of the year, now that it's under new leadership—new Acting Labor Secretary Patrick Pizzella.
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Jul 12, 2019
Claims of retaliation—mostly in the forms of demoting, disciplining or terminating employees—are the charges most frequently filed with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). A recent lawsuit reminds employers that refusing to rehire someone who filed a discrimination claim against the company is also illegal.
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Jul 12, 2019
How do employers keep workers' heads in the game when their toes are itching for the sand? Or how do they plan for the disruption that summer holidays and vacation schedules inevitably bring? What are their best practices for keeping productivity high?
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Jul 11, 2019
?The Irish Parental Leave (Amendment) Act 2019 has now been signed into law and introduces important changes to parental leave.
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Jul 11, 2019
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a sample form, instructions and FAQs to help employers submit employee pay data—due to the agency by Sept. 30—sorted by job category, race, ethnicity and sex.
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Jul 11, 2019
The House Committee on Financial Services on July 11 passed legislation that would prohibit employers from using credit reports for employment decisions, except when required by law or for a national security clearance.
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Jul 11, 2019
The Australian workforce is witnessing a new trend: more leave entitlements.
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Jul 11, 2019
The World Health Organization has identified workplace burnout as an "occupational phenomenon" that may deserve medical attention.
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Jul 11, 2019
The World Health Organization has identified workplace burnout as an "occupational phenomenon" that may deserve medical attention.
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Jul 11, 2019
Although the reasoning may be suspect in a district court's ruling that an employer's two-call policy to request leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was unacceptably burdensome, employers will need to consider the decision's implications.
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Jul 11, 2019
Employers in the United Kingdom must be careful not to discriminate against employees based on their actual, or perceived, language proficiency.
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Jul 10, 2019
As an organization's workforce changes, employers should be prepared to add, modify or end benefit programs, recognizing that benefits valued in the past may not be effective in the future.
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Jul 10, 2019
Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour would raise pay for 27 million workers but also lead to over 1 million job losses, according to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projections.
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Jul 10, 2019
On July 9, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments in Texas v. United States, a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If the appellate court upholds a lower court ruling against the ACA, the case is expected to land before the U.S. Supreme Court next year.
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Jul 10, 2019
An accessible new guidebook just published by SHRM, Ace Your SHRM Certification Exam: A Guide to Success on the SHRM-CP® and SHRM-SCP® Exams, edited by SHRM's vice president of certification operations, Nancy A. Woolever, SHRM-SCP, features expert tips and practice questions that demystify the tests and improve one's ability to understand and prepare for them.
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Jul 10, 2019
Different treatment of similarly situated employees may suggest that termination of one but not the other might have been due to race discrimination, a 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision shows.
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Jul 10, 2019
Employers generally don't have to accommodate perceived disabilities, but an employer waived this argument and a jury verdict against it was upheld.
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Jul 10, 2019
The U.S. House of Representatives voted July 10 to eliminate limits on the percentage of employment-based green cards awarded to immigrants from any one country.
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Jul 10, 2019
Lunches and conversations with leadership on career advancement, organizational direction, the needs of the workforce and the like are ways to start culture change. Shifts in culture can have more impact on an organization than changes to policies, procedures and processes; they can lead to true understanding.
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Jul 10, 2019
?Three policy changes affecting the process for recertifying the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP credentials--allowing accrual of professional development credits (PDCs) during the grace period, early completion and PDC carryover--will go into effect on Aug. 1. The changes were designed to improve how SHRM certification-holders earn and record PDCs.
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Jul 10, 2019
SHRM has issued two new professional development programs, the SHRM U.S. Employment Immigration Specialty Credential and the SHRM HR Department of One Specialty Credential. HR professionals who earn these specialty credentials demonstrate specialized knowledge in focused fields of practice and complex, continually-evolving topic areas.
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Jul 10, 2019
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's decision to require most employers to submit pay data sorted by race, ethnicity, gender and job category—so-called EEO-1 data—gives employers an opportunity to address pay equity issues and to ensure their pay practices are operating as intended.
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Jul 09, 2019
The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dismissed a former employee's discrimination and retaliation claims because she could not show that her termination occurred because she opposed discrimination based on marital status.
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Jul 09, 2019
What if software could help identify the employees most likely to collaborate in ways that lead to new product innovation, get new hires up to speed faster or point out high-potential employees earlier than ever?
A process called human network analysis (HNA) is designed to achieve those objectives.
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Jul 09, 2019
No one likes to be "ghosted," which is more prevalent in certain industries, according to The Knowledge Academy, a provider of training courses that surveyed 1,325 full-time U.S. workers.
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Jul 09, 2019
A heterosexual HR manager fired after writing an angry Facebook post against Target's policy of allowing transgender individuals to use restrooms according to gender identity could not state a discrimination or retaliation claim, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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Jul 09, 2019
Using employee recognition technology can help companies operationalize the actions they need to take to motivate employees.
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Jul 09, 2019
A former deputy district attorney claims that his employer retaliated against him after he insisted that a criminal defendant who was on trial for murder was innocent. A California appellate court recently ruled that the plaintiff can proceed to trial with his whistle-blower claim.
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Jul 09, 2019
California is poised to join New York City and become the first state to protect employees from discrimination based on natural hair and hairstyles associated with race.
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Jul 09, 2019
California has join New York City to become the first state to protect employees from discrimination based on natural hair and hairstyles associated with race.
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Jul 09, 2019
Many workers get excited about a salary bump or the prospect of a promotion, but what should an employer do if a worker declines either? Here's what employment attorneys had to say.
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Jul 09, 2019
HR has a data-sharing problem that won't go away. Despite the growing popularity of software "suites" that allow disparate HR systems to communicate, or new application programming interfaces (APIs) that enable connections between different talent management technologies, experts say HR still struggles to communicate the outputs of these systems in efficient and meaningful ways.
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Jul 09, 2019
Why are Millennials shrouded in a negativity that prevents companies from engaging with them? Millennials can bring four key elements to the workplace: innovation and technology knowhow, resourcefulness, social media awareness, and social and environmental consciousness.
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Jul 09, 2019
The U.S. women's soccer team has won the FIFA Women's World Cup for the fourth time and the reigning champions want equal pay for their accomplishments.
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Jul 09, 2019
Employers, employees and job seekers have witnessed how technology and demographic shifts have changed the hiring process. New technology, the shift in needed skills and demographic changes in the population have reshaped the hiring process and human resource management.
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Jul 09, 2019
Professionals involved in the collection, organization and manipulation of data to help an organization make better business decisions are closely connected to the goal of every company: increasing profitability and growth. They are on the cutting edge of an exploding area of expertise that will offer exciting challenges, opportunity, recognition and reward.
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Jul 08, 2019
A talent shortage, demanding employers, picky applicants and difficulty recruiting outside Baku, Azerbaijan's capital and largest city, are among the hurdles recruiters face in this country just south of Russia and north of Iran.
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Jul 03, 2019
In a unanimous decision, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals resuscitated class claims against retail giants Nike and Converse that allege employees are owed compensation for time spent undergoing security checks when exiting the retail stores.
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Jul 02, 2019
New technology could disrupt work life for tens of millions of women globally over the next decade, creating both the possibility of greater opportunity and pay and the risk of bigger wage gaps and job loss, a new McKinsey Global Institute report suggests.
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Jul 02, 2019
On June 27, Gov. Gavin Newson signed SB 83, which will extend the maximum duration of paid family leave (PFL) benefits from six to eight weeks beginning on July 1, 2020.
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Jul 02, 2019
More than 200 businesses signed a brief on July 2 calling on the Supreme Court to rule that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Jul 02, 2019
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued three new opinion letters addressing how to comply with the Fair Labor Standards Act when rounding employee work hours and other wage and hour issues.
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Jul 02, 2019
Employers may know in the next year what will happen to the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which allows some undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children to temporarily work and avoid deportation.
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Jul 02, 2019
Sen. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, recently introduced legislation that would make the E-Verify employment eligibility verification system permanent. The E-Verify program has been extended repeatedly and will expire on Sept. 30.
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Jul 02, 2019
?We asked attendees at the SHRM 2019 Annual Conference & Exposition to tell us the most important thing they learned from the conference speakers. Here are their top 10 takeaways.
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Jul 02, 2019
Royal Mail, a letter and parcel delivery company, could be the first United Kingdom (U.K.) organization to move ahead with a new form of pension scheme called a collective defined contribution scheme (CDC).
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Jul 01, 2019
Employee handbook resources provided by XpertHR and SHRM.
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Jul 01, 2019
When interpreting vague regulations, courts should continue deferring to a federal agency's view of its own rules, so long as the interpretation is reasonable and consistent with the regulation, the U.S. Supreme Court recently ruled.
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Jul 01, 2019
Thailand's redrafted Labor Protection Act has introduced major changes to the country's employment law.
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Jul 01, 2019
Too many hiring managers avoid telling candidates the truth about a job. Their logic is that if applicants find out how hard they will work or how boring the core of the open jobs are, they will walk away. This is a mistake. To hire effectively, you have to be honest about what working at your firm is like and what it takes to be successful.
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