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The Workforce L&D 2019 conference is an L&D Daily Advisor event that will be hosted this year in November. Here’s a brief overview of what you need to know about this event if you’re interested in attending or sharing information about it with others.
Religious exemptions requests of AI are growing by the day. Since May, when the Vatican released an encyclical offering criticism on AI and its use, several instances of employees successfully acquiring religious accommodations to avoid using AI have been popping up, and likely many more to follow. What does this mean for employers? Well, thanks […]
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are five more prominent learning and development (L&D), training, and HR trends you’ll want to keep in mind for 2019.
21st Century Oncology, Inc. (21CO) has agreed to pay $2.3 million in lieu of potential civil money penalties to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) and adopt a comprehensive corrective action plan to settle potential violations of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Privacy and […]
Illinois employers now have yet another law to navigate. The state human rights statute now bans discrimination based on a candidate’s or employee’s criminal conviction unless the employer can show a “substantial relationship” exists between the conviction and the job or that the employment would involve an “unreasonable risk” to property or safety. Conviction Records […]
2020 was a rollercoaster year for businesses, full of unforeseen challenges that forced organizations to adapt quickly or face getting left behind. According to Sage’s 2021 Return to Growth Outlook Report, which surveyed finance and accounting leaders at growing businesses (ranging from 50-1,500 employees), more than one-in-three businesses say their digital transformation plans accelerated by […]
FLSA pressures are bringing back the time clock, and some workers are more than a little ticked off. It’s baaaack! No, not some undead spirit from a horror movie, but something just as upsetting to some workers … the old-fashioned, punch-in and punch-out time clock. Time clocks never really left industrial workplaces, but that’s not […]
The independent contractor model of work has become increasingly popular with both businesses and workers, but it’s not without its hazards. Misclassifying workers as independent contractors when the IRS and the U.S. Department of Labor say they should be classified as employees can have serious consequences. Here are 10 tips that can make it more […]
By Bryan O’Malley, workplace expert at Care@Work and general manager of payments at Care.com Open enrollment season is upon us, which means HR leaders everywhere are striving to make sure their employees are well informed enough to make the best choices about their benefits.
by Boyd A. Byers Forty is a mystical number in many cultures. In ancient Babylonia, the number was known as kissatuin, meaning “the excellent quantity.” The great flood described in the Bible resulted from 40 days and 40 nights of rain. Forty is the only number, when spelled out in English, whose letters are in […]