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The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all Michigan employers) recently decided a case involving an employer that withdrew from an underfunded, multiemployer pension plan. According to the court, the actuary didn’t use the best estimate when determining the employer’s share of the unfunded liability under the Employee Retirement Income Security […]
SPECIAL from HR Tech Las Vegas During an informative panel discussion at HR Tech Las Vegas, three HR experts offered real-world problems and solutions.
A Texas man who reported he sustained a job-related injury while driving a truck and received income benefits from an insurance company was found driving a truck while collecting. Not a huge surprise. What was surprising was that he was also found to be climbing trees as part of a side business! Texas Mutual Insurance […]
According to one McGraw-Hill Education survey, only 40% of college seniors feel prepared to enter the workforce upon graduation. And most college seniors wish their colleges would have offered them more practical opportunities to prepare for a career in the real world.
So many of the fears about remote work come from it being seen as opaque. Not physically seeing people working holds a lot of managers back from embracing remote work.
After years of declining membership, unions are redoubling their efforts to sell their product (membership) to new customers. While they have long targeted grocery stores like Kroger and SuperValu, they are now moving into the so-called “new economy” by zeroing in on employers like Amazon and Starbucks.
Defined benefit (DB) plan sponsors received another “derisking” tool in early March when the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) and U.S. Treasury Department unexpectedly reversed course on retiree lump-sum payouts.
Today’s graduates, whether in high school, university, or college settings, are entering the workforce at a time when nothing is certain and everything, including when and where they will work, is in flux. Monster recently surveyed recent and future graduates to better understand their feelings about entering the 2021 labor market, and it revealed some […]
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen the power of artificial intelligence (AI) explode in 2023. From ChatGPT to machine learning to virtual reality, AI has completely transformed our world, including many aspects of business. If your HR team isn’t using AI, you’re likely missing out on a multitude of benefits. Understandably, AI […]
To celebrate its 100th anniversary, the federal Department of Labor developed an initiative, “Books that Shaped Work in America,” in conjunction with the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. And books you would find in the children’s section of a bookstore have made the list! Along with books about presidents and secretaries […]