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11th Circuit: Employers Responsible for Extra Payments When Exiting Multiemployer Plan

Plan withdrawal liability has been in place for U.S. multiemployer plans since 1980. It includes a heavy penalty that requires employers leaving a multiemployer plan to pay their share of the plan’s vested benefits not yet covered by contributions and investment earnings. As a result, healthy companies often seek to leave multiemployer plans before their […]

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Walmart Black Friday Virtual Reality Training

There are certain events and scenarios that rarely occur. This can be true for any business. But even if an event rarely occurs, that doesn’t mean that employees don’t need to be prepared for the event just in case. But, how do you train for these types of events? Often, they can be difficult or […]

Debunking Mobile Recruiting Myths

Mobile-friendly career sites are more and more a necessity, but not all such sites are really candidate-oriented. Expert Matt Adam, speaking at the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Talent Management Conference and Exhibition, held recently in San Diego, debunked three myths of mobile recruiting and offered six questions to help readers gauge their mobile-readiness. […]

3 Ways to Win Over Gen Z Jobseekers

Is your company ready for the next round of graduates to enter the workforce? Gen Zs those born between 1995 and 2010, account for 61 million people in the United States. They’re about to begin their careers and bring with them a unique set of skills and values. This generation has never known life without […]

DOL Considers Lower, $47,000 Overtime Threshold

The U.S. Department of Labor is considering a lower, $47,000 salary threshold for its upcoming overtime regulations, according to news reports. A former Wage and Hour Division administrator called the move an “empty gesture” and said that setting the threshold any higher than $35,000 is irresponsible. The version of the rules that DOL proposed last June would […]

Introducing New Workplace Software—A Marketing Job

In a modern workplace, so much of what employees do relies on software. And while there are plenty of programs like Microsoft Office that are more or less ubiquitous and widely used by virtually everyone, there are many other functions for which there are multiple options for software providers.

Apply Supply-Chain Tactics to Talent Management

The reason: As corporate leaders and business owners strive to better manage workforce planning for future competitiveness, the talent-on-demand idea is forming the basis of many more companies’ people analytics today.