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Manager’s Guide: Coach Your Team with a Growth Mind-Set
We all know about the benefits of continuous feedback in creating high performing learning organizations. But do you feel you’ve started encouraging managers, employees, and teams to start sharing feedback but aren’t seeing the benefits?
Case Study: Can Employers Be Liable for Customers’ Behavior?
Typically, harassment claims involve allegations that an individual has been harassed by a coworker or supervisor. A recent case involving an Illinois casino demonstrates the importance of employers guarding against potential harassment by non-employees as well. Cornered at the Beer Tub Laura Wong worked as a beverage server at Rivers Casino in Des Plaines, Illinois. […]
EEO Training Makes Economic Sense for Employers
by Sam R. Fulkerson The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced in January that 93,277 workplace discrimination charges were filed nationwide during 2009 — the second-highest level ever — and monetary relief obtained for victims totaled more than $376 million. The 2009 data show that private-sector job bias charges alleging discrimination based on disability, religion, […]
Multiemployer Pension Plan Insurance Program Likely Insolvent by 2025
The insurance program for multiemployer pension plans, which covers more than 10 million Americans, is likely to run out of money by the end of 2025, according to the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s FY 2016 Projections Report and a recent PBCG press release.
IRS Issues Fringe Benefit Compliance Tool for Public Employers
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently released a checklist to help public employers comply with the fringe benefit rules. Many of the provisions it addresses apply in the private sector as well.
4 Trends to Expect in the Year Ahead
In part one of this article, we covered the top three trends that are expected to dominate the 2019 workforce. Here, we’ll cover four additional trends you should be aware of in the year ahead.
FLSA Audit: 9 Compliance Tips and a Checklist
Why is now the time to conduct a wage and hour audit at your company? Because now is the time that you are going to get sued, warns attorney Marc L. Jacuzzi. Jacuzzi attributes the significant increase in Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claims to the fact that so many people are out of work, […]
What Leaders Should Know About Chicago’s New Paid and Sick Leave
Effective July 1, 2024, Chicago employers will need to comply with the city of Chicago’s paid leave and paid sick and safe leave ordinance. The ordinance requires Chicago employers and employers with Chicago-based remote workers to provide up to 40 hours per year of paid leave and 40 hours per year of paid sick leave […]
When Your Hammer Is Your Screwdriver—Talent Management
To do that, sometimes you have to use a hammer as a screwdriver, he says. Katz made his comments at BLR’s Strategic Leadership HR Summit, held recently in Scottsdale, Arizona. Katz is president of Penguin Human Resource Consulting LLC. When Is a Hammer a Screwdriver? Katz shows a picture of a hammer and asks, “What’s […]