Category: HR Management & Compliance

There are dozens of details to take care of in the day-to-day operation of your department and your company. We give you case studies, news updates, best practices and training tips that keep your organization fully in compliance with ever-changing employment law, and you fully aware of emerging HR trends.

Stricter Child Labor Laws Proposed

The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed big changes to the child labor regulations under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. The DOL’s proposed rules would expand the list of jobs considered to be “particularly hazardous”—and off-limits—for 16- and 17-year-olds (and younger workers) to include working at poultry slaughtering plants, riding as passengers on forklifts, […]

The Smarter Way to Write HR Policies

For issues such as discrimination … and virtually anything else that’s compliance-related … leave the HR policy writing to the experts. If you read yesterday’s Advisor article on “unconscious discrimination,” it may have raised the same question in your mind as it did in ours. Assuming that recent social research is correct—that managers of good […]

Are You Guilty of ‘Unconscious Discrimination?’

EEOC has begun E-RACE, a program to root out managers who discriminate in hiring or promotion while possibly being unaware that they’re even doing it. HR managers at two of America’s largest retailers, Walgreens and Wal-Mart, must be in a state of shock these days. After years of what they believe was compliance with both […]