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Organizations can appreciate the importance of training hiring managers in asking appropriate (and legal) preemployment questions. However, new legislation may make it so that they have a new topic to avoid during the application and interview process: the candidate’s salary history.
HR writer Sarah McAdams reviews the book Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heat. Review shows how HR can use the book’s advice on how to effectively communicate ideas. Some ideas just stick with us. And one of them from Malcolm Gladwell’s bestseller The Tipping Point: […]
So you have great content for your training session, but how’s your delivery? Bob Pike, a well-known motivational speaker in the training profession, presented seven strategies for designing and delivering training that makes the difference between being effective and being a dud. Here are the essential tidbits I took from Pike’s presentation at a recent […]
Yesterday we looked at a survey that says that only 7% of workers feel that the office is the most productive workspace available to them. Today we’ll look at some of the benefits of flexible work arrangements, as well as what form they might take.
[Go here for the first part of the discussion on pregnancy discrimination] Requiring Leave May an employer require a pregnant employee who is able to perform her job to take leave at any point in her pregnancy or after childbirth? No. An employer may not force an employee to take leave because she is or […]
Hunter Lott is an HR practitioner dedicated to the “rights of management.” His handbook remarks below came during his “Please Sue Me” session at a recent Society for Human Resource Management Conference and Exposition.
And, of course, each type of leave has its own set of eligibility, entitlement, notice, documentation, and tracking requirements, and oftentimes the requirements overlap. To help our readers cope with this thicket of leave laws, BLR—after evaluating a number of leave management systems—is proud to announce that we have established a partnership with Presagia to […]
National Youth Hiring Day took place on May 16, and this year, major employers across the country sought to hire young talent with no job experience. Jobs website, JobLaunch, led the spring initiative with the intentions of removing barriers and helping young talent start on their path to success.
Yesterday, we featured 6 of consultant Jon Gordon’s tips for reenergizing employees. Today, we’ll look at 3 more of his suggestions.
By Richard L. Rainey A new North Carolina state law soon will require use of the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services’ (USCIS) E-Verify system to check if workers are legally entitled to work in the United States. Under the new law, signed by Governor Bev Perdue on June 23, all employers in North Carolina that […]