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A Strange New World—Navigating the Recruiting Renaissance
COVID-19 has quickly upended the way we work—while some have simply shifted work settings, others have been forced to find entirely new employment. Even 6 months into the pandemic, unemployment levels remain high and industries that rely on in-person interaction continue to struggle to stay afloat. In turn, numerous employers have had to adapt business […]
Faces of HR: Ayishah Williams on Agility, Hiring Hole & Humanity
Ayishah Williams has more than 20 years of strategic HR, consulting, and business operations experience. Throughout her impressive career, Williams has done everything from developing teams to building and implementing HR best practices at startups – all in the belief that a holistic approach to HR can create measurable and lasting organizational change. Currently, she […]
Faces of HR: Ashley Braband’s Playbook for Building Omaha Productions
From the hallowed sidelines of the Philadelphia Eagles to the digital frontier of sports media, Ashley Braband‘s career trajectory reads like a meticulously crafted highlight reel. But it’s her latest act—building the people and culture experience at Peyton Manning’s Omaha Productions—that’s truly defining her legacy. “My journey began in the trenches,” Braband recalls, referencing her […]
$136.9M Judgment vs. Tesla Underscores Rising Costs of Joint Employer Relationships
After less than four hours of deliberation, a jury in a California federal court recently awarded $136.9 million to a former Tesla subcontractor after finding he had been subjected to a racially hostile work environment at the company’s factory in the northern part of the state. The huge damages award demonstrates the potential dangers underlying […]
Essential Elements of a Workplace Violence Prevention Plan
An unfortunate issue employers continue to face is the rise of workplace violence. The most recent statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics show 392 workplace homicides and 37,060 nonfatal workplace injuries resulting from an intentional injury by another person in 2020, when many workers were forced to stay home due to the global pandemic. By all accounts, workplace […]
Sick Leave: New Case Interprets California’s Kin Care Law for First Time; Compliance Basics for Employers
Infographic: Popular Benefits Used for Talent Attraction
Winning the war for talent requires a variety of methods to attract jobseekers to your company. One way to attract top talent is through your company’s benefit package. But does your benefits package stand up against the competition?
3 Ways Effective Collaboration Tools Can Help Mitigate Hiring Pain Points
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause once-in-a-generation struggles with devastating global impact, especially to the world’s economies. In this environment, the labor market has seen a dramatic shift from “Depression-era” unemployment levels to currently over 10 million open jobs in the United States (according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics). Compounding this tumultuous hiring economy […]
Internal Investigations: Don’t Make a Legal Determination
When HR managers do internal investigations, one of the most common mistakes is to wind up the final report with a legal determination, says attorney Jennifer Brown Shaw. “Don’t do that,” she urges. “Just find out and report what happened.” In California, for example, Shaw says, a legal conclusion reached in your investigation report is […]