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Mar 01, 2021
A trial court should not have dismissed a claim filed by a teacher against a school district alleging that the district failed to accommodate her "electromagnetic hypersensitivity."
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Mar 01, 2021
The U.S. House of Representatives passed another round of COVID-19-related legislation that would expand federal unemployment benefits and provide additional small business aid. The U.S. Senate will now consider the measure.
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Mar 01, 2021
Employers can offer employees participating in health flexible spending accounts (FSAs) and dependent care FSAs greater flexibility for rolling over unused funds through 2022, under new IRS guidance.
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Mar 01, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor has officially delayed a rule that would make it easier for restaurants and other hospitality businesses to allow "back-of-the-house" workers—such as cooks and dishwashers—and other nontipped workers to share in gratuities.
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Mar 01, 2021
Women's TechConnect ?is a formal mentoring program helps groom high-potential female engineers for leadership roles throughout the cable industry. SHRM Online spoke to two women about their experience in the yearlong program.
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Mar 01, 2021
Retail pharmacies will play a vital role in administering COVID-19 vaccines this year, and CVS Health—the largest pharmacy chain in the U.S., with nearly 10,000 locations—has already done the hiring necessary to put shots in arms.
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Feb 26, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor clarified in guidance that laid-off individuals who refuse work because of COVID-19 safety concerns may be eligible for unemployment benefits.
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Feb 26, 2021
Every employer in Hong Kong should consider how the vaccination program could impact its business and which questions it may face from employees and customers.
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Feb 26, 2021
Employee achievement rewards recognize employees for their successes—and by doing so, help to increase employee motivation and reinforce behaviors aligned with company goals and values. Some rewards programs, however, fail to deliver these outcomes. Here's why.
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Feb 26, 2021
Can an employer restrict what an employee says on their own social media accounts about the company? How can workers keep chatty colleagues from impeding their workday? ?SHRM President and Chief Executive Officer Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, answers these HR questions as part of a series for USA Today.
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Feb 25, 2021
Employers wanting to require workers to get a COVID-19 vaccination should be prepared to respond to workers' concerns and make reasonable accommodations under federal and state law.
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Feb 25, 2021
Vaccination is an important tool in controlling the pandemic, say public health leaders, who are asking employers to encourage and make it easy for workers to get vaccinated. U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials explained what employers can do to promote efforts to vaccinate employees.
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Feb 25, 2021
Internships are typically one of the most significant steps that aspiring human resource professionals can take on their career path. They provide HR students with the opportunity to see what the prospective job entails and can potentially lead to full-time employment after graduation. But the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the outlook for internships in a number of ways.
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Feb 25, 2021
Sens. Mitt Romney, R-Utah, and Tom Cotton, R-Ark., are proposing legislation that would gradually raise the federal minimum wage to $10 per hour and require all employers to use E-Verify, an electronic system to check employees' work authorization.
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Feb 25, 2021
States reported that 730,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Feb. 20, a decrease of 111,000 from the previous week's revised level. The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell by 100,000 to 4.4 million. About 19 million people are receiving some type of unemployment aid.
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Feb 25, 2021
Microsoft's new Viva employee experience platform—an app in Microsoft Teams that functions as a one-stop-shop employee portal—has arrived. HR technology vendors now need to determine how they'll co-exist with or compete against a major new player in the market.
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Feb 25, 2021
?As part of an effort to recognize the next generation of human resource leaders, the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) is naming students, alumni and others who work on behalf of emerging professionals as SHRM Emerging Professional Champions. This week, we're looking at William W. Spencer III, SHRM-CP, human resources generalist II for Innovative Defense Technologies (IDT).
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Feb 25, 2021
On Feb. 25, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the Equality Act, a bill that proposes to amend federal civil rights law to prohibit discrimination against LGBTQ individuals in employment, housing, public schools, among other areas.
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Feb 25, 2021
Over the past year, employers have made significant changes to their hiring practices to ensure the safety of potential and current employees. Remote hiring for professional workers has become the norm and is a practice that is likely to continue, even after concerns about the COVID-19 pandemic have subsided. In fact, many employers are realizing the potential benefit of having access to talent around the country—or around the globe.
However, there are certain risks that employers need to consider when recruiting and hiring talent beyond their traditional market areas.
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Feb 24, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic will continue to impede aspects of employment screening in 2021, leading employers to use alternative procedures such as conditional hiring and...
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Feb 24, 2021
Virginia may be the first state to follow California's lead on consumer privacy legislation, but it certainly will not be the last. Here's what organizations need to know about privacy laws.
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Feb 24, 2021
The majority of employers are open to negotiating salary for some or all positions once a job offer has been made, but that openness does not extend to bonuses and benefits, according to a new survey.
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Feb 24, 2021
Is the California Supreme Court about to make it more difficult to dispose of whistleblower retaliation claims? That may well be the case. The state high court has agreed to answer a question from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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Feb 24, 2021
The office manager for a district attorney (DA) did not have a First Amendment claim for her firing after she refused to attend the funeral of the DA's mentor, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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Feb 24, 2021
Data show that the shift to remote work during the COVID-19 pandemic has been largely successful in maintaining productivity, but most employers still believe that returning to the office is the best path forward for maintaining a strong organizational culture. But is that true?
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Feb 24, 2021
With so many employees having worked outside their home state or country during the pandemic, sometimes without notifying their HR departments, employers may have failed to withhold payroll taxes properly without realizing it.
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Feb 24, 2021
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a National Labor Relations Board ruling that prohibited an employer's questioning of employees who participated in an unprotected work stoppage.
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Feb 23, 2021
With so many employees having worked outside their home state or country during the pandemic, sometimes without notifying their HR departments, employers may have failed to withhold payroll taxes properly without realizing it.
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Feb 23, 2021
Benefits managers who support at-home fitness say that reimbursing workers for purchasing home exercise equipment is a perk that employees truly appreciate, and one that complements at-home virtual fitness classes.
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Feb 23, 2021
If workers refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine, managers need to be armed with facts about the vaccine based on science, understand the legal issues of requiring employees to be vaccinated, and be prepared to listen to and counsel workers who are nervous about the vaccine.
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Feb 23, 2021
Narcissistic behavior on the job can arise at any time, with troubling results. One new study showed that narcissists can significantly damage workplace team performance. Another reveals the short-term and long-term damage done by narcissistic managers—all the way up to the C-suite. Study researchers define narcissism as a "grandiose sense of self-importance" combined with a lack of empathy for other people—characteristics that can fuel negativity on the job.
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Feb 23, 2021
Weeks before the World Health Organization declared the coronavirus outbreak a pandemic, experts said gig-worker laws, Generation Z workers, mental health and vaping would be the top issues managers would face in 2020. Little did they know of the challenges that the pandemic, remote work and social unrest would bring to the workplace. All of those issues and more are still on the table in 2021. Here is an updated view of what experts said will occupy managers most this year.
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Feb 23, 2021
The Dubai Supreme Committee of Crisis and Disaster Management and the Abu Dhabi Emergency Crisis and Disasters Committee for COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Arab Emirates have introduced new measures to curb the second wave of COVID-19 cases.
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Feb 23, 2021
Looking forward to an entirely "post-COVID-19 world" might be wishful thinking, writes career columnist Martin Yate, as our world is being irreversibly changed by the pandemic. Now is the time to strengthen your work skills and invest in Me Inc.--a strategy to help you manage your career as companies manage their profit and growth.
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Feb 23, 2021
?Corporate attempts to improve diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) are falling short, according to new research that raises serious doubts about traditional...
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Feb 23, 2021
Young 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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Feb 22, 2021
Ontario and Quebec both moved into provincewide lockdowns before the start of 2021 to minimize transmission of the COVID-19 virus. The provinces started to ease the lockdowns in February but there has been some opposition to the easing of restrictions.
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Feb 22, 2021
Only 64 percent of U.S. organizations gave base pay increases in 2020, down from 82 percent that raised salaries in 2019, new research shows. Pay analysts expect 2021 wage increases to remain restrained despite an expected pickup in economic growth as the pandemic recedes.
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Feb 22, 2021
Uber drivers in the United Kingdom are entitled to worker benefits, such as minimum wage and holiday pay, according to the U.K.'s highest court.
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Feb 21, 2021
An employee who said he was experiencing headaches and needed to follow up with his doctors did not make a request for medical leave under the California Family Rights Act, a California appeals court ruled.
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Feb 21, 2021
The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) has been amended several times since it passed in 2018—and employers should be aware of how those changes affect the workplace.
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Feb 21, 2021
The coronavirus pandemic will continue to drive digital innovations in 2021, says HR leader Jennie Knowles, SHRM-CP—just as it did last year, when human resource leaders led the shift to remote work and immediately started adapting to their new environments.
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Feb 21, 2021
When Kyle Roberts, chief people officer at Even Financial, and her colleagues embarked on a search for a customizable workforce management system to improve talent and organizational decisions, it was the company's most important HR data management initiative to date.
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Feb 21, 2021
The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs' (OFCCP) internet applicant rule shapes the hiring process for employers who do business with the federal government.
The 15-year-old regulation dictates which job-applicant records federal contractors and subcontractors need to maintain, how to refine online applicant pools, and how to solicit required demographic data from online job applicants.
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Feb 19, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor recently withdrew an opinion letter that said some gig-economy workers who find jobs through smartphone apps—such as drivers for ride-hailing services—are properly classified as independent contractors under federal wage and hour law.
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Feb 19, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employees to work remotely, and some may have relocated for a variety of reasons, creating challenges for employers to keep up-to-date records of employee contact information.
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Feb 19, 2021
An employer could not have been aware that a former employee's actions were intended to oppose age discrimination against another worker, so the employee's retaliation claim failed, a California appeals court ruled.
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Feb 19, 2021
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) mandatory requirements have expired, but the distinction between emergency paid sick leave, emergency family and medical leave and Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) time off remains significant.
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Feb 19, 2021
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently upheld workers' right to wear union symbols and discuss union matters in the workplace, with certain exceptions.
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Feb 19, 2021
As the Indian government advances its COVID-19 vaccination program, some companies are making plans to vaccinate their employees as soon as possible.
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Feb 19, 2021
Do employers have to pay terminated employees for accrued paid time off? Can HR keep workers from traveling during the coronavirus pandemic? SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, answers HR questions for a weekly series in USA Today.
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Feb 19, 2021
?During good and bad economic times, workers have sued their employers for undercounting their hours, refusing to pay overtime or otherwise shortchanging their paychecks. Scrutiny for wage theft, as it is known, is more likely with the election of President Joe Biden and a labor-friendly mindset among the Democratic majority in Congress. The pandemic and remote work could boost claims as well.
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Feb 19, 2021
As HR professionals who work in family-run businesses know, owners and other senior relatives are the final decision-makers on all workplace matters. In some companies, nepotism and favoritism can lead to broken laws and mismanagment. Here are some ways to improve a family-owned business's HR processes while upholding your responsibilities—without making enemies.
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Feb 19, 2021
As HR professionals who work in family-run businesses know, owners and other senior relatives are the final decision-makers on all workplace matters. In some companies, nepotism and favoritism can lead to broken laws and mismanagment. Here are some ways to improve a family-owned business's HR processes while upholding your responsibilities—without making enemies.
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Feb 18, 2021
The pandemic-related extensions of certain benefit plan compliance and reporting deadlines are expiring. Given a lack of answers from regulators, plan administrators should decide whether to treat the extensions as ended.
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Feb 18, 2021
On Feb. 17, President Joe Biden nominated Jennifer Abruzzo to be the next National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel.
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Feb 18, 2021
Employers are unsure about whether to give employees incentives to get the COVID-19 vaccines. The lack of legal guidance about appropriate incentives may be holding them back.
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Feb 18, 2021
Employers can expect to have new compliance obligations in the wake of the Biden administration's lifting of certain limits that the Trump administration had put on subregulatory guidance—guidance that hasn't gone through the notice-and-comment period.
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Feb 18, 2021
Long-term unemployment continues to mount one year after the coronavirus pandemic was declared a public health emergency in the United States.
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Feb 18, 2021
Congratulations on passing the SHRM certification exam! Now it's time to focus on recertification. Here are tips on getting organized, tracking recertification credits and paying it forward.
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Feb 18, 2021
Being SHRM-certified helped this employment lawyer and business journalist transition into a knowledge management role at SHRM, cataloguing and curating SHRM's huge body of HR information on workplace law.
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Feb 18, 2021
Providing information to the organization about evolving legislation can be a challenge for HR professionals. But it needs to be a priority. It is our responsibility to help our organizations navigate the dramatically changing landscape of laws and regulations, and the best way to do that is through effective communication and training.
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Feb 18, 2021
SHRM began offering remote testing options to candidates for its certification exams in May 2020. Now, even as many test centers are beginning to resume in-person operations, SHRM continues to offer 24/7 testing via the remote platform and will do so for the foreseeable future so examinees have a choice in how and where they take the test. SHRM has made several upgrades to improve the remote testing experience.
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Feb 18, 2021
?Take the guesswork out of the recertification process for maintaining your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP credential. Turn to these providers for courses that qualify for professional development credits. Here are the latest companies to be approved as SHRM Recertification Providers. Congratulations!
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Feb 18, 2021
Do you have to earn professional development credits in each of the three recertification categories--Advance Your Education, Advance Your Organization and Advance Your Profession? The SHRM Certification team answers some of your most frequently asked questions about recertifying your SHRM credentials.
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Feb 17, 2021
States reported that 861,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Feb. 13, an increase of 13,000 from the previous week's revised level. The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell to 4.4 million. About 18 million people are receiving some type of unemployment aid.
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Feb 17, 2021
In response to a White House directive, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently paused several of the prior administration's proposed and pending rules.
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Feb 17, 2021
Amazon filed a COVID-19-related lawsuit on Feb. 12 arguing that the New York attorney general's office exceeded its authority to regulate workplace safety issues during the pandemic. Four days later, the state attorney general filed suit against Amazon.
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Feb 17, 2021
The Puerto Rico Department of Labor has issued guidelines and a sample protocol for employers to follow in compliance with Puerto Rico's law against workplace bullying.
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Feb 17, 2021
Gov. Doug Ducey signed into law HB 2045, which expands protections for pregnant workers under Arizona law. Here's what employers need to know.
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Feb 17, 2021
Feeling happy may seem like a tall order, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic and all of its accompanying stresses. But happiness is a skill that can be learned, experts say, when we stop comparing ourselves to others and focus on our inner happiness. Then we can begin bringing our best selves to work.
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Feb 16, 2021
President Joe Biden announced Feb. 17 that he is discontinuing one of the Trump administration's top workforce development initiatives—industry-recognized apprenticeship programs (IRAPs). Over 130 programs had been created so far, mostly for nursing credentials.
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Feb 16, 2021
SHRM is recognizing students, alumni and others who work on behalf of Emerging Professionals. We begin with a look at Rose Hernandez, student at Texas A&M University—San Antonio, and president of the San Antonio SHRM Student Chapter.
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Feb 16, 2021
SHRM is recognizing students, alumni and others who work on behalf of Emerging Professionals. We begin with a look at Rose Hernandez, student at Texas A&M University—San Antonio, and president of the San Antonio SHRM Student Chapter.
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Feb 16, 2021
A manufacturing employee who sought a permanent exception from his company's shift rotation could not go to trial on his disability claims because he did not await the company's final decision before resigning, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama held.
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Feb 16, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has forced many employers to shift their operations to remote work, which may have changed employees' routines with their pets. As case numbers drop and some employers consider reopening their workplaces, employees may have anxiety about leaving their animal companions at home.
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Feb 16, 2021
The Work Opportunity Tax Credit (WOTC)—an incentive for employers to broaden their job applicant pools and hire from certain groups of people who may need assistance finding jobs—has been reauthorized and extended through the end of 2025.
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Feb 16, 2021
The Department of Labor (DOL) allowed a controversial Trump administration final rule on providing investment advice to retirement plan participants to take effect as scheduled, surprising those who believed the Biden administration was likely to block the new regulation, which allows advisors to receive payments from mutual funds they recommend.
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Feb 16, 2021
U.K. employers that have claimed government grants to keep employees on the payroll during the pandemic should make sure they can show their claims were made properly, given the government's efforts to fight furlough fraud.
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Feb 16, 2021
The IRS published a final rule to help tax-exempt organizations comply with the 21 percent excise tax on pay over $1 million to the five highest-paid employees at the organization.
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Feb 16, 2021
?The hiring rate for graduates of historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) shot up an average 5.9 percent a year from 2016 through 2019, according to the latest Workforce Report from LinkedIn. That is above the 1.3 percent average yearly growth rate for graduates from non-HBCU schools, it found.
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Feb 16, 2021
To find a job in another country, depend on your existing skills and look for opportunities in multinational companies, advises career columnist Martin Yate.
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Feb 15, 2021
A substantial number of U.S. workers said they were unlikely to get the vaccine, according to research by the Society for Human Resource Management. If they remain fearful, it could delay businesses from returning to normal operations.
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Feb 15, 2021
Workers' compensation statutes provide the sole remedy for an employee assaulted by a co-worker if the assault is related to one's employment, including disputes over job performance or the scope of job responsibilities, according to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.
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Feb 12, 2021
?There was a buzz of activity at Invoca, even though the 150 employees at the Santa Monica, Calif., data analytics software company had vacated the headquarters in March to work remotely. While they were away, a new group set up shop—a colony of 20,000 honeybees living and working in the walls of the offices.
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Feb 12, 2021
Employers are waiting to see whether the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will issue guidance requested by President Joe Biden clarifying that workers who refuse unsafe working conditions can still receive unemployment insurance.
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Feb 12, 2021
The new People's Republic of China (PRC) Civil Code took effect on Jan. 1, establishing important new principles on what constitutes sexual harassment and introducing potential liability for employers.
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Feb 12, 2021
The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) aims to help struggling businesses keep workers employed during the COVID-19 crisis. Employers that received loans through the program last year may be eligible for a second loan if they meet certain criteria.
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Feb 12, 2021
A major breach of pension plan participants' data in the U.K. is a reminder for plan sponsors and administrators to assess the data privacy and security capabilities of potential service providers.
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Feb 12, 2021
How can employees get their managers to stop yelling at them? And can employers require workers who want to work from home to present doctor's notes? SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, answers HR questions each week for USA Today.
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Feb 11, 2021
A year into the pandemic, one of the persistent questions within global mobility teams is how to inject additional resilience into their emergency response plans.
The answer requires managerial attention to three distinct but complementary domains: environmental competency, communication agility and reporting accuracy.
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Feb 11, 2021
On Feb. 11, the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee approved Boston Mayor Marty Walsh's nomination to be secretary of labor. His nomination will advance to the full Senate for consideration, where confirmation is expected soon.
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Feb 11, 2021
As federal lawmakers consider whether to raise the minimum wage to $15, many state and local wage rates have been steadily rising in recent years, and some have reached or surpassed $15 an hour. Compliance can be a challenge for employers in multiple jurisdictions, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Feb 11, 2021
Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed a bill modifying COVID-19 worker quarantine requirements, likely in response to recent changes to federal guidelines.
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Feb 11, 2021
Several cities in California have passed premium-pay ordinances mandating additional pay for certain grocery store and drugstore employees.
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Feb 10, 2021
States reported that 793,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Feb. 6, a decrease of 19,000 from the previous week's upwardly revised level. The total number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell to 4.5 million. About 20 million people are receiving some type of unemployment aid.
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Feb 10, 2021
Employers can feel more secure that computer programmers qualify for H-1B visas, following the rescission of a 2017 policy that increased scrutiny of these roles.
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Feb 10, 2021
More than half of first-time health savings account (HSA) contributors reduce their 401(k) account savings rate, new research shows. This needn't put their retirement security at risk if some of their HSA dollars are used for long-term savings.
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Feb 10, 2021
?It seems the workplace can be better than a dating app for making a love connection. Over a third of employed Americans report they are currently involved or had previously been involved in a workplace romance, an increase from 27 percent last year, according to a new survey conducted Jan. 28-Feb. 1 by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM).
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Feb 10, 2021
The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic appear to be hitting young people the hardest, according to new research. Concerns about the virus itself, combined with economic anxiety and loneliness, have resulted in members of Generation Z and Millennials feeling more despondent than their older counterparts.
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