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By Kylie Crawford TenBrook Recently, Jenna Talackova was disqualified from the Miss Universe contest for allegedly lying about her gender on her entry form. Talackova, who was born with male genitalia but underwent a sex-change operation, indicated on the form that she is female. (Seriously, if an operation can make someone look like that, I’m […]
The 2017 Restaurant Management Salary Survey Report, the third annual report from Gecko Hospitality, the largest hospitality recruiter in the United States, finds the gender pay gap is still widespread, with starting pay and bonuses for men considerably higher than for women.
Continuing from yesterday’s post, here are more tips and best practices for how you can continue developing your employees and programs as your company is downsizing.
First, employers must determine whether a nonexempt employee has accumulated enough hours worked to become entitled to overtime pay. Now, let’s assume that the employee has worked enough hours and the issue is how much overtime must be paid. Mastering HR Report: Overtime Count on me Normally, calculating overtime is a pretty simple mathematical exercise […]
By Elaine Quayle HR Strange but True joins in the celebration of what would have been Julia Child’s 100th birthday on August 15. We honor her not only for her culinary skills but as a pioneer of “distance learning” through her television cooking shows. As part of the tribute to this icon, here is a […]
How do you make the Americans with Disabilities Act clear? Have a former DOL insider reduce its complexity to universal understandings. When Congress passed the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), there likely was little thought that anyone would call the law a “minefield.” Yet that’s just how ABC News reporter John Stossel described ADA in […]
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that its proposal to collect pay data through the Employer Information Report (EEO-1) includes a change in the due date for the EEO-1 survey. The revised proposal, published in the July 14 Federal Register, moves the deadline for employers to submit the EEO-1 survey from September 30, […]
From the 2016 SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition in Washington DC! Yesterday we heard from Greg Hare, an employment lawyer at Ogletree Deakins Law Firm in Atlanta, GA, who spoke about some of the real problems bad employees create. Today’s Advisor will cover some specific ideas Hare has on removing the worst employees from your […]
Using the hashtag “MeToo,” women have spoken out on social media about their experiences with sexual harassment and assault. The issue is far more pervasive than many people (men) realized—and the workplace is often the scene of such behavior.
By Rosalind H. Cooper Occupational health and safety legislation in most Canadian provinces prohibits reprisal by an employer against an employee who makes allegations of unsafe work. Workers routinely try to rely on such reprisal provisions to attack any actions of their employers. A recent Ontario Labour Relations Board decision, Petro v. The Beer Store, […]