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Apr 25, 2019
Practical guidance to facilitate former service members' transition from their old "we will" military environment to their future "at will" civilian environment is available in From WE WILL to AT WILL: A Handbook for Veteran Hiring, Transitioning, and Thriving in the Workplace (SHRM, 2018).
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Apr 25, 2019
As SHRM-certified HR professionals, we can utilize the SHRM Body of Competency and Knowledge (SHRM BoCK) to ensure that our organizations are doing their best to recruit and retain top talent.
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Apr 25, 2019
Too often, front-line managers aren't prepared to talk with employees about compensation—or why it's not higher. Here's how to get managers ready for pay-related talks with their direct reports.
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Apr 25, 2019
Have questions about recertifying your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP? In every issue, the SHRM Certification team will answer some of the questions credential-holders often ask.
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Apr 25, 2019
Ervin Santana, SHRM-CP, a former student at Clayton State University in metro Atlanta, has become a successful HR professional by pursuing jobs and internships while he was still in college, plus seeking out and following the advice of established HR professionals.
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Apr 25, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court sided with an employer on April 24 by ruling that a worker needs to individually arbitrate his claim against the company rather than bring a classwide claim.
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Apr 24, 2019
Many European countries do a better job preparing workers for jobs than the United States does, according to a yearly report on filling the talent gap around the globe.
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Apr 24, 2019
Unlike in the United States, time off work to bond with infants is paid in France, Spain and the United Kingdom (U.K.). Differences in the amount of time parents may take often depend on the type of leave.
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Apr 24, 2019
Two commonly used forms in the hiring process are the job description and job requisition. And while it would seem that the reasons for using each of these forms are pretty straightforward, there is some uncertainty—even debate—over which should come first.
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Apr 24, 2019
Employers can take steps to pay administrative workers competitively based on location, and to recognize these professionals and make them feel valued.
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Apr 24, 2019
?When small organizations navigate a growth spurt, their HR practitioners have an opportunity to demonstrate exactly how they can contribute to the business. But doing so means creating and executing on a daunting to-do list, say HR professionals who have been in this situation.
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Apr 23, 2019
A chart of leave laws by state.
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Apr 23, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in the fall on whether federal law prohibits employers from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity—and Congress is considering a bill that would codify protections based on lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) status.
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Apr 23, 2019
Augmented writing technology uses vast collections of data points to help users predict how audiences will respond to their messages. For recruiting, machine intelligence identifies patterns in language and the real-world hiring outcomes from prior job posts or recruiting e-mails to help authors choose language proven to appeal to their target audiences.
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Apr 23, 2019
Governments around the world are preparing to implement a historic agreement on migration, with employers poised to provide guidance.
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Apr 23, 2019
A supervisor's use of offensive language in the workplace, even if infrequent, will be considered much more serious than a co-worker's in assessing hostile work environment claims, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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Apr 23, 2019
?Does the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) protect job applicants as well as current employees? The AARP Foundation is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse an appeals court decision ruling from earlier this year that said it does not.
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Apr 23, 2019
A staffing agency sued for failing to provide applicants with background-check notices required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act could not have the lawsuit dismissed as a class action for faulty class designations, a federal district court ruled.
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Apr 23, 2019
The president's management agenda includes proposals for human capital management reforms, strategic workforce management, talent acquisition, continuous learning and agile operations.
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Apr 23, 2019
Lately there has been a tremendous amount of press about and research conducted on the utility of blockchain. The topic can be incredibly complicated, but blockchain could be a promising update in human resources technology.
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Apr 23, 2019
Businesses have never done as much hiring as they do today. They've never spent as much money doing it. And they've never done a worse job of it. Workplace expert Peter Cappelli shows employers the errors of their ways. (Hint: Why are you recruiting new workers instead of promoting current employees?)
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Apr 23, 2019
You've put in the time, developed your skills and become part of your company's "inner circle"--but you still can't get that promotion. What's gone wrong? Career advice columnist Martin Yate gives tips to this week's letter writer.
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Apr 22, 2019
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Apr 22, 2019
?California can require employers to deduct pay from employees' paychecks for a state-sponsored retirement savings plan without running afoul of federal law, a federal judge in California ruled March 29.
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Apr 22, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court recently heard oral arguments in a dispute about whether state or federal employment laws applied to an offshore drilling rig worker's wage and hour claims for time spent on a platform located more than three miles from the California coast.
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Apr 22, 2019
Maine recently became the latest state to ban employers from asking job candidates about their current or past earnings—joining seven other states that impose such bans.
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Apr 22, 2019
More employers are working on community health initiatives with their local business associations and municipal governments to address social factors linked with poor employee health.
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Apr 22, 2019
How can HR professionals help managers have difficult conversations in a timely, constructive way? And how can HR do so without creating a communication triangle with the three points being HR, management and employees?
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Apr 19, 2019
Investing in people will be necessary to address a future workplace transformed by technological changes, according to the International Labor Organization.
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Apr 19, 2019
Professional short-term projects serve as mutual auditions for employers seeking talent and college students interested in certain roles or industries—all outside of the formal, semester-long internship program structure.
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Apr 18, 2019
New Mexico lawmakers recently expanded the range of conditions for which medical marijuana may be used and created new employment protections for employees who legally use medical marijuana. Here's what employers should know.
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Apr 18, 2019
In June 2018, amendments made to the Quebec Labor Standards Act (LSA) included additional obligations for personnel placement agencies and temporary foreign worker recruitment agencies. These amendments now are on the verge of being enforced.
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Apr 18, 2019
Some companies are using escape rooms, lazer tag and board games to measure job candidates' strengths and weaknesses, though skeptics say this is a less than ideal approach to hiring.
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Apr 18, 2019
Employees can access their personnel files and get a copy of any other data processed and stored about them, even during an ongoing trial, according to a Dec. 20 ruling by Germany's State Labor Court of Baden-Württemberg.
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Apr 18, 2019
A German court has overturned a long-held principle in German law, and, as a result, a worker's leave no longer automatically expires at the end of a calendar year.
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Apr 18, 2019
Foreign nationals in the United States who are transitioning from student visas to employer-sponsored visas may have a hard time returning to the U. S. if they travel abroad between the date their student visa expires and Oct. 1, when professional visas take effect.
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Apr 18, 2019
Foreign nationals in the United States who are transitioning from student visas to employer-sponsored visas may have a hard time returning to the U. S. if they travel abroad between the date their student visa expires and Oct. 1, when professional visas take effect.
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Apr 18, 2019
Some companies are using escape rooms, lazer tag and board games to measure job candidates' strengths and weaknesses, though skeptics say this is a less than ideal approach to hiring.
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Apr 18, 2019
Teachers at a California synagogue preschool were not ministers within the meaning of the First Amendment's ministerial exception, so they were allowed to proceed with their state-law wage and hour claims.
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Apr 18, 2019
April 5 was the first anniversary of the U.K. requirement to report gender pay gaps by businesses with 250 or more employees and the results were disappointing.
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Apr 18, 2019
Today, many men are reflecting on how their behavior affects other people in ways they haven't before, and rethinking the traditional, masculine forms of leadership.
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Apr 17, 2019
The recent measles outbreak raises the question of whether employers can require that workers get the vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) or prove immunity from the illness.
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Apr 17, 2019
While pay for Canadian women in the past 50 years has inched closer to that for Canadian men, the gap between what men and women earn for doing the same jobs continues to be a source of concern across the country, including in British Columbia, Canada.
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Apr 17, 2019
An employee is entitled to pursue her case for violations of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), despite her conceded noneligibility for FMLA leave, after the employer erroneously indicated that she was eligible for FMLA leave.
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Apr 17, 2019
To rein in health care costs, employers can avoid plans with "backdoor rebates" on prescription drugs, contract directly with hospitals and guide employees to high quality, competitively priced doctors, Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar told a gathering of large employers.
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Apr 17, 2019
A group of women who worked for Microsoft are challenging a court's decision that won't let them proceed with a class action asserting nationwide gender-discrimination, but others—including the Society for Human Resource Management—contend that the decision upholds manager discretion in performance evaluations and pay practices.
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Apr 16, 2019
Off-duty police officers moonlighting for a traffic and security services company should have been paid overtime as employees and not treated as independent contractors, the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled.
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Apr 16, 2019
Updates to British Columbia's labor code are under way for the first time since 1992, when the working world was a very different place.
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Apr 16, 2019
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) told a federal judge April 16 that the agency can't collect employee pay data—sorted by race, ethnicity and sex—by the rapidly approaching May 31 deadline for employers to submit other EEO-1 data.
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Apr 16, 2019
A pharmacist with trypanophobia—a fear of needles—whom Walmart fired after the chain began offering immunization shots to customers can bring a wrongful discharge claim based on Walmart's initial offer to accommodate him.
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Apr 16, 2019
California law significantly restricts employer use of noncompetition agreements, and proposed legislation in the state of Washington seeks to mirror the Golden State's laws. Here's what employers need to know.
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Apr 16, 2019
The relationship between recruiters and hiring managers is one of the most critical factors affecting the success of an organization's talent acquisition efforts.
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Apr 16, 2019
There may be more at stake in choosing a background-screening provider than in any other decision a HR leader makes when partnering with an industry vendor. A tight labor market means recruiters can't afford to dither when offering jobs to top candidates, yet if they cut corners on how background screens of those applicants are conducted, that decision can come back to haunt them—not just on the job but in the courtroom.
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Apr 16, 2019
An employee who voluntarily left her job couldn't sue her former employer for race and age discrimination, the California Court of Appeal ruled. Although the employee claimed that her supervisor made her job so stressful she had no choice but to quit, she didn't show that a reasonable worker would find the conditions intolerable.
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Apr 16, 2019
Here's a three-question career management IQ test, based on three questions from readers. See if you can recognize the problems and solutions.
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Apr 15, 2019
German law may now limit some of employers' Twitter activities, thanks to a 2018 labor court ruling.
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Apr 15, 2019
Many employers would agree that sick workers should stay home to recover and that employees should be able to care for ill relatives when needed. But the proliferation of state and local sick-leave laws with different requirements can burden employers with significant administrative and compliance challenges.
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Apr 13, 2019
A chart of ban the box laws by state.
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Apr 12, 2019
Retaliation charges have dropped but are still the most commonly filed charge at the EEOC in fiscal year 2018. Sexual harassment charges rose 13 percent.
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Apr 12, 2019
New employer-friendly overtime rules and limitations on unions in the construction industry are now law in Ontario, Canada.
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Apr 12, 2019
As smartphones and their many addictive apps become an integral feature of work and personal life, experts recommend that employers implement and enforce effective safe-driving policies to protect employees and the public, shield themselves from legal damages, and improve the bottom line.
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Apr 12, 2019
The New York City Council passed legislation April 9, 2019, that bans pre-employment testing for marijuana by a veto-proof margin of 40-4. Regardless, Mayor Bill de Blasio was expected to sign it.
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Apr 12, 2019
While dismissal is the most common recourse for serious misconduct, increasingly employers are looking to take stronger action by recovering their losses from employees guilty of wrongdoing. A Hong Kong employer recently did just that in court.
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Apr 12, 2019
How can an entry-level job require three years of experience? And how can new college graduates meet managers' high expectations? Internships and employers' willingness to train new workers may be key.
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Apr 12, 2019
?Employers will have to continue to wait for an answer on when they will have to file EEO-1 pay data reporting, as a federal judge has ordered an April 16 hearing on the issue.
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Apr 12, 2019
The global trend towards requiring transparency in pay data is not slowing. Just recently, France and Spain have jumped aboard and Ireland may soon follow.
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Apr 12, 2019
How can an entry-level job require three years of experience? And how can new college graduates meet managers' high expectations? Internships and employers' willingness to train new workers may be key.
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Apr 12, 2019
A recent decision by the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom (U.K.) will make applying for jobs without disclosing prior multiple convictions easier for people with criminal records.
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Apr 11, 2019
Before an employer decides to suspend a U.K. employee, it should consider several factors to reduce the risk of potential claims of forced resignation arising from the suspension.
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Apr 11, 2019
The editors of SHRM Certification Update are pleased to announce the winners of this year's SHRM HR Haiku Contest, conducted in observance of National Poetry Month in April. Winners were chosen in four categories: Grand Prize, HR Profession, SHRM & Certification, and HR Comics & Cynics. A special prize for Most Epic Entry was awarded for an HR tale told in three stanzas.
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Apr 11, 2019
?With 44 million Americans facing student loan debt and total debt ballooning to over $1.5 trillion, there is a growing need for more employers to start offering educational debt relief as a perk or benefit. Student loan reimbursement has the potential to be the new dental insurance for Millennial employees.
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Apr 11, 2019
After exploring a few different career paths, Jennifer Just found HR--and quickly became absorbed in the profession. She joined SHRM, attended workshops and discovered certification would be the best way to grow her knowledge. Luckily, her employer agreed--and footed the bill.
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Apr 11, 2019
Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., introduced the Bringing an End to Harassment by Enhancing Accountability and Rejecting Discrimination (Be HEARD) in the Workplace Act in the Senate on April 9.
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Apr 11, 2019
Most of us work with others of diverse ages, races, social backgrounds and more. These differences must be respected and understood; not to do so can lead to failures—in employees and in the bottom line. Here's how to boost your proficiency in Global & Cultural Effectiveness.
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Apr 11, 2019
?Have questions about recertifying your SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP? In every issue, the SHRM Certification team will answer some of the questions credential-holders often ask. This week we discuss reading books for credits and translating CLEs and CEUs into PDCs.
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Apr 11, 2019
Engaging employees for a fixed term can be a way to avoid potential termination costs in foreign jurisdictions where employees are protected against unfair dismissal. But those contracts are increasingly regulated in foreign jurisdictions.
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Apr 10, 2019
New York workplace labor and employment law poster chart.
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Apr 10, 2019
After a media executive tweeted that she would never hire someone who failed to send a thank-you note after an interview, Twitter exploded with outraged comments and a heated debate over whether such notes are necessary, or even advisable, in this day and age.
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Apr 10, 2019
In recent years the U.S. has been looking to European apprenticeship models that "provide fast-tracked, on-the-job training in white-collar professions."
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Apr 10, 2019
Employee referral programs can be an effective way to hire talented people, and they can also be invaluable in the current talent acquisition environment, in which open jobs outnumber qualified candidates. At the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Talent Conference & Exposition, Aubrey Wiete, talent management consultant for Cincinnati Children's Hospital, and Jenna Filipkowski, Ph.D., director of research at Human Capital Institute, offered tips for improving employee referral programs.
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Apr 10, 2019
An often-overlooked Generation X feels less financially secure than either Millennials or Baby Boomers. Providing the right set of benefits can help.
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Apr 10, 2019
Jared Bazzell, CDW's talent acquisition manager, told attendees at the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Talent Conference & Exposition that recruiters get better and faster responses by texting candidates than they do by calling or e-mailing. "And in a tightened labor market, time-to-fill is higher, so speed to market is everything."
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Apr 09, 2019
A federal appeals court decision provides guidance to California employers when a labor agreement's terms are inconsistent with definitions in the state's overtime law.
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Apr 09, 2019
The California Supreme Court's 2018 ruling in Dynamex Operations v. Superior Court jolted the business world by making it more difficult to designate workers as independent contractors. Proposed legislation would codify the case and add a few exceptions.
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Apr 09, 2019
Talent mobility is training the employees you already have to fill new positions that will help meet business objectives, said HR consultant Ben Eubanks, SHRM-SCP, speaking at the Society for Human Resource Management 2019 Talent Conference & Exposition. "In short, it's putting your internal talent where it needs or wants to go to solve business challenges. This practice drives employee engagement and retention while lowering hiring and training costs for employers."
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Apr 09, 2019
IBM is using artificial intelligence (AI) to predict when employees might leave and ping managers to intervene. Using the same technology, it also has cut nearly a third of its HR department. Meanwhile, other tech giants and corporations, like Google, are contemplating the ramifications of using AI in their hiring and decision-making.
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Apr 09, 2019
A panel of talent acquisition leaders from companies large and small gathered at the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Talent Conference & Exposition to share their experiences dealing with some of the latest recruiting trends, practices and technologies. Here are a few of the most interesting observations.
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Apr 09, 2019
Worker advocates told a federal judge on April 8 that they want the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to collect EEO-1 pay data by the May 31 deadline for employers to submit other EEO-1 information—or clearly show why doing so is not possible. The EEOC proposed a Sept. 30 deadline, but the judge has yet to rule on the matter.
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Apr 09, 2019
An employee who was required to undergo a work-related medical examination may proceed with her claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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Apr 09, 2019
A lawsuit by a female assistant manager of a warehouse who was fired after complaining of a false rumor that she had a sexual relationship with a higher-ranking manager arguably established valid claims of sexual harassment and retaliation.
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Apr 08, 2019
Take a hard look at your job postings. "Do they have the keywords or phrases your candidates are searching for? Do they tell the job's story?" asked Jon Drogheo, a director of talent acquisition and speaker at the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management Talent Conference & Exposition.
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Apr 08, 2019
Over the past three decades, productivity levels quickly climbed while wages remained relatively flat, according to research released today by the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Apr 08, 2019
In an effort to keep customers safe, Uber announced its continuous screening program in July 2018. More big-name companies are expected to announce screening implementations this year to ensure employees are licensed and authorized to work and have not committed any crimes since they were hired.
The trend hasn't caught on among most companies yet though, as only 4 percent of 6,500 HR professionals said their organization performs continuous, rolling background checks on their employees, according to a survey conducted in July 2018 and released by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) today.
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Apr 08, 2019
Starbucks has pledged to eliminate the gender pay gap and join the Employers for Pay Equity Consortium. Twenty-six organizations signed the pay equity pledge on April 2—Equal Pay Day
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Apr 08, 2019
Over the past three decades, productivity levels quickly climbed while wages remained relatively flat, according to research released today by the Society for Human Resource Management.
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Apr 08, 2019
Want to improve communication at your company? "Ask, don't tell," said author and consultant Jennifer Currence, SHRM-SCP, at the 2019 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Talent Conference and Exposition.
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Apr 08, 2019
?A company's success in going digital may rely heavily on the relationship between two unlikely partners: the chief human resources officer and the chief digital officer.
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Apr 08, 2019
Seasoned HR professionals share their hard-won leadership wisdom to help you successfully navigate your own career in HR or as a manager of teams and people.
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Apr 08, 2019
Most employers don't spend much time reviewing pay statements, but in California, simple technical violations can be costly. Here's a summary of these technical requirements to help California employers do a quick compliance checkup.
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