Get— and Keep— A Seat at the Executive Table
To win HR a place in senior management, career experts say learn the overall business … and express yourself in the language that senior executives speak.
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Amnesty for Aliens: Good for the Country (and Your Company) or Bad?
By HRDA Editor Stephen D. Bruce, PHR Just My E-Pinion A recent question to the BLR® HR Forum about amnesty for illegal aliens generated an interesting set of responses, all well-reasoned, although not all agreeing. The question was: Just wondering what my HR colleagues think of granting mass amnesty to illegal aliens currently residing in […]
DOL Plans Will Encourage More Lawsuits
In yesterday’s Advisor, Attorney Christine Walters, SPHR, covered classification and deduction challenges. Today, her take on inclement weather and DOL’s plans, plus an introduction to a unique checklist-based HR audit system. Walters is an independent consultant with FiveL Company in Westminster, Maryland. Her remarks came at the recent Society for Human Resources Management Legal and […]
3 ADA Accommodation Scenarios
Accommodation for workers with disabilities. “Sometimes it can be overwhelming,” concedes the Job Accommodation Network (JAN). But a good job description is a “constructive tool” for focusing on reasonable accommodations. JAN is a service of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Disability Employment Policy. JAN offers the following accommodation scenarios to show how to […]
To Pay or Not to Pay: Wage and Hour Is Heating Up
The number one question topic in HR is still FMLA, but wage and hour is now a close second, says Attorney Christine Walters, SPHR. You might think that people would have wage and hour down by now, but no. First, wage and hour lawsuits are coming hard and fast. Walters offered a few examples of […]
What to Do When Investigation Implicates HR?
One of the trickiest moments in HR is when your investigation shows that your department is implicated. In today’s Advisor, Denise Kay, Esq., tackles that challenge, and we get a look at a special program just for smaller HR departments. Kay, who is SPHR certified, is president of Employment Practices Solutions, Inc., in Lakewood, Colorado. […]
Why Do Employers Fail to Investigate? Number One Reason
Why do employers fail to investigate? asks Denise Kay, Esq. “The number one reason is that they don’t know what to do. Employers are especially fearful when agencies are involved.” Typical reasons that managers fail to even start an investigation, says Kay, are: They think it’s cut and dried, so there’s no need for an […]