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Managing leave in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can be burdensome. Intermittent FMLA leave in particular gets a bad rap because of the hassle of recordkeeping. Is your HR department on point? We have a refresher to supplement your FMLA training.
Millions of employees across the country have been working remotely for many months now, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mother’s Day stirs up a lot of emotions. For many, it’s a day to celebrate the bond of love and affection between a mother and a child.
Last week, we reported on the recent training Starbucks offered its employees and the benefits to proactive versus reactionary training. Today we’ll focus on what Starbucks employees thought about this training.
It’s HR Diversity week here at HR Daily Advisor, and we couldn’t be more excited! Since Monday, we’ve run a gamut of free virtual events and resources to help organizations incorporate successful diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB) initiatives in their workplaces. For this week’s Faces column, we’re diving deeper, spotlighting a few diversity HR […]
It’s rare for today’s business professionals to spend their entire career with the same organization—something that was much more common decades ago. But Keyla Cabret-Lewis has worked with Aflac not only her entire professional career but also even as an intern during her high school years. Cabret-Lewis started her journey with Aflac as a junior […]
If you thought the Church of Body Modification was stretching the bounds of religious accommodation, now we’ve got veganism to contend with, at least in one courtroom. A recent case in Ohio shows how far religious accommodation may be heading, says BLR legal editor Joan Farrell. In the case, a customer service rep in a […]
Employers already spend more on healthcare than anything else aside from salaries – and cancer makes up the largest portion of those healthcare costs. Today, cancer costs account for nearly 3% of U.S. GDP. That is almost as much as the U.S. spends on defense. The American Cancer Society recently released its annual Facts & […]
Meet Erin Dertouzos, Chief People Officer at strongDM – a people-first access platform that gives technical staff access to the infrastructure they need to be productive. Erin believes that recruitment is about having the right people in the right roles at the right time and leaders are responsible for creating a North Star with clear […]
American Express (AmEx) made national headlines last month when it announced it would soon offer employees 20 weeks of paid leave for the birth, surrogacy, adoption, or legal guardianship of a new child.