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Continued from yesterday’s post, here are a few more best practices to follow when hiring homeless workers. Focus on Social Impact First While it is completely fine to want to generate profits (after all, that is the reason you’re in business), don’t consider business models that will exploit homeless workers simply so that your […]
It’s a Dilbert® world out there, says HR blogger Scarlett Pruitt. Signs of dysfunction are rampant. Today, we’ll paraphrase 10 of the most glaring. Pruitt, blogging on HRWorld.com, collects real-world evidence of dysfunction in workplace settings. We thought that these 10 of her most revealing signs bear repeating. See anyone/anything familiar here? 1. Nothing can […]
Imagine that you’re a hiring representative for your employer (in this case, a Burger King restaurant), and you’ve just discovered how to use MySpace. You decide to check the profiles of the employees who work the midnight shift. While perusing one employee’s profile, you notice a link to a video. As you click on it, […]
By Stephen D. Bruce, PHR Editor, HR Daily Advisor Just My E-pinion It’s Evil HR Lady 7, BLR 3. The majority of responses to our article about employer responsibility for off-site safety did echo her “Oh cry me a river” position. Here are a few examples. We are sorry we can’t fit more. Click to […]
A key part of an employer’s attendance policy is setting objective criteria for when excessive absenteeism requires disciplinary intervention. But how does employee leave taken under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) factor into your attendance policies and disciplinary practices?
Retirement is something most people look forward to! We spend the majority of our lives working, and when we hit that ripe old age, we’re ready to be done! Most people start saving for retirement in their twenties either by investing in a 401(k) or in a Roth IRA. But one paranoid man decided not […]
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has slapped restaurant chain Cheesecake Factory, Inc., headquartered in Calabasas, with a class-action lawsuit alleging male-on-male sexual harassment at a restaurant in Arizona.
In the age of AI and remote work, HR leaders are dealing with tough compliance challenges, and they must have strategies to keep everything straight and in order for their organizations. How can HR leaders begin to handle compliance issues such as AI governance, leave laws, classifying workers, remote and global jurisdictional risk, data privacy, […]
Massachusetts enacted significant noncompete reform in 2018. Under Massachusetts law, noncompete agreements entered after October 1, 2018, can only be used and enforced if they comply with the standards of the Massachusetts Noncompetition Agreement Act (MNAA).
Yesterday we explored the ups and downs of team interviews. Today we’ll explore the best practices for team interviews in order to ensure better results.