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According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, compensation discrimination is still a very real workplace problem. Now, the EEOC has issued comprehensive new guidelines for when pay differentials are and are not legal. Here are the highlights.
The material in this issue comes from BLR®’s popular 10-Minute HR Trainer session, “The ADA—What Supervisors Need to Know.” Train your supervisors and managers on these basic facts, definitions, and requirements regarding the Americans with Disabilities Act. What Does the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Require? The ADA was enacted to remove obstacles to employment […]
Your HR Daily Advisor peers have spoken! Here is a list of the top 9 most popular HR Daily Advisor articles so far this year: HR Strange But True Edition. Click on the links below for your must-read articles Trick or Treat: Employee Hands Out Pot Brownies to Employees We’ve covered a fair share of […]
Federal contractors are getting a look at a new regulation aimed at preventing sex discrimination in employment, and while many contractors already are in line with its provisions, the new rule may create tension in some areas. The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) released a final rule on […]
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently released a new interactive training tool to help small businesses effectively identify hazards in the workplace. Employers and workers can virtually explore how to identify common workplace hazards in the manufacturing and construction industries. Users of the new training tool will not only learn hazard identification skills […]
The good news: Important drugs are going generic — a savings opportunity for employer-sponsored health plans, which should do what’s reasonable and what’s allowed to switch employees over to generics. The bad news: Health plans may still have to ensure they are getting the maximum cost savings. A case in point: Several health plans are […]
As the 80 million Millennials (ages 18–33) start to play a larger role in the U.S. workplace, they aspire to lead in business in the next 5 years, according to The Hartford’s 2014 Millennial Leadership Survey. Millennials also said training is the best way employers can demonstrate an investment in them. The survey showed 83 […]
Ensuring that disabled employees are not discriminated against is one of the goals of both the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and California’s Fair Housing and Employment Act (FEHA). This goal is accomplished through not only defining what it means to be disabled and what must be done to accommodate those with disabilities, but also through specifically outlining the actions that employers cannot take without violating the law.
The Congressional Progressive Caucus has encouraged the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to move forward with its “blacklisting” plan for federal contractors, despite a court’s injunction temporarily halting implementing regulations.
by Dan Oswald In just a handful of days, 2017 will be over. Another year in the books. I don’t know about you, but they seem to go faster as I get older. It’s like I’m speeding to a finish line that I don’t necessarily want to reach! But it’s like I say about birthdays, […]