Should Wellness Dollars Go to Disease and Lifestyle Management?
In most employee groups, a small number of employees with serious diseases accounts for a large share of healthcare costs. Disease management programs can help.
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New Car Wash Operator Gets Soaked by Old Owner’s FLSA Violations
A car wash operator apparently had a clean record of complying with labor law, but because of a special California labor law, a California appellate court recently held that the car wash was liable for a previous owner’s Fair Labor Standards Act violations, resulting in a $120,000 judgment. The case, People ex rel. Harris v. […]
CFOs Report Finding HR Staff as a Top Challenge in 2018
Good news: Over the course of the next year, 92% of finance executives in the United States plan to spend the same or more on their labor/head count than last year, according to the 2018 Global Business & Spending Outlook, a global survey conducted by American Express and the Institutional Investor Thought Leadership Studio. Compared […]
Are Your Workers Trained on the Latest Ergonomic Best Practices?
Today, workers are experiencing a global assault on physical, social, and cognitive well-being. Worldwide, rates of heart and lung diseases, as well as diabetes and obesity, are rising sharply. We are cognitively overloaded and distracted by new technologies, multitasking from e-mail to social media. At the same time, stress has become a global epidemic costing […]
Are Your Trainers Well Trained?
Weiss is director of Seyfarth Shaw at Work, a legal compliance training company associated with the Seyfarth Shaw law firm. He says that courts (and opposing attorneys) will explore such things as the content of the training course, how much money is spent on training, and the trainer’s background and competency. His remarks originally appeared […]
EEOC brings first lawsuits alleging transgender discrimination
by Arielle B. Sepulveda On September 25, 2014, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed two lawsuits, the first actions by the agency in which it has alleged that discharging an employee because she is transgender constitutes discrimination on the basis of sex and therefore violates Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. […]
Training to Prevent Sexual Harassment Suits
A substitute school custodian said she was pressured to have sex with a foreman in exchange for more hours and then retaliated against for refusing his advances and lodging a sexual harassment complaint. This case demonstrates the importance of training employees and supervisors on sexual harassment prevention and on protocols for reporting harassment.
What You Need to Know About E-Learning Security
Spending for cybersecurity is expected to exceed $1 trillion from 2017 to 2020 as more individuals start using their smartphones and data become the most important resource in the world. And hackers aren’t just searching for credit card numbers and medical records anymore. They’re searching for any bit of information about your employees they can […]
Federal Laws that Affect Application Forms
Whenever you’ve got new applicants, you always want to start them off on the right foot. One of the most critical aspects of this is ensuring that your application form doesn’t put you in any legal trouble.
Attorneys Define 4 Key Employment Law Problem Areas … And How to Avoid Them
Two sources of employment law advice come up with some “nuggets” of great advice on how to deal with a quartet of common pitfalls. Do all employment lawyers think alike? Sometimes it seems so, when, in our reading, we come up with two remarkably similar articles, in two widely (and sometimes wildly) different places. Such […]