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Sticking with this week’s animal-themed direction, we’ve gathered a few of the most popular SBTs featuring two-, four-, and eight-legged friends. Monkey Business—Monkeys have been useful in maintaining order. The first example was a langur monkey that was charged with patrolling trains for the Delhi Metro Rail Corporation, in India. The langur—who had a handler […]
Yes, you read that headline right! The Seattle Times is reporting that Gravity Payments employees have purchased a brand new Tesla Model S for their CEO. You’ll remember that Gravity Payments is the same company responsible for increasing the salaries of all its employees, to $70,000 annually.
In a previous post, we discussed the findings of a recent LinkedIn report that looked at gender differences in the job application process. This report is important because even though women make up the majority of the U.S. population, they are underrepresented in many industries, as well as in leadership and executive positions in particular.
Employer awards help companies attract top talent. Job seekers look for proof that a company is what it says it is, and awards provide validation.
A plan participant cannot pick definitions from various state or federal statutes and impose them on an employer-sponsored health plan where the plan left terms undefined, if the plan applies a common and ordinary meaning to those terms when asked to justify a claims denial. Applying this rule, a Michigan appeals court affirmed a lower […]
In a recent episode of HR Works Podcast, I sat down with Tanya Staples, VP of Product, Learning Content at LinkedIn. We discuss the latest learning trends, the strategic value of learning for business leaders, and handling learning among the 5 generations that currently populate the workforce.
Digital diabetes solutions are not a panacea but can offer employers valuable assistance in combatting diabetes among their populations, says a new report from Northeast Business Group on Health (NEBGH). The report, “Digital Diabetes Solutions in Action: An Opportunity Study,” profiles a pilot program begun within a segment of employees at Mount Sinai Health System […]
The best questions always come from our CEA subscribers—the ones toiling away in the HR trenches. During each month we’ll reprint some of the questions they’ve put to our editors, and the answers we’ve provided. Here’s one that many employers have wondered about: What are the pay requirements when a non-exempt employee is on-call by […]
When asked to name one job you held as a teenager, many of you might answer with babysitting. But none of you probably earned as much as this teenager.
Millennials and Gen Z are dominating the workforce right now, and if you aren’t catering your recruiting strategies to these generations you’re losing out on diverse talent.