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As the working world continues to evolve, business leaders would be wise to fine-tune and enhance their people strategies to better reach a fast-growing segment of the U.S. population: Young Hispanic Millennials.
We have an employee who has been on intermittent FMLA for a long time due to his wife’s chronic health condition. May we ask for an updated medical certificate from his wife’s doctor? We are concerned that he may be misusing the system. It’s been 5 years since we obtained the first certificate of serious […]
Update Dec. 21, 2009: President signs bill including COBRA subsidy extension Senators Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio) and Bob Casey (D-Pennsylvania) introduced the COBRA Subsidy Extension and Enhancement Act (S. 2730) this week in the U.S. Senate. The proposed bill would extend the original federal COBRA subsidy created by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 […]
HR needs to be alert to the attitudes of supervisors and coworkers, says Eyres, who is managing partner of the Eyres Law Group LLP in Irvin, California. Here’s what your managers and supervisors are thinking: We only have to consider reasonable accommodations when the injury or illness is work-related. No, says Eyres, the source of […]
The University of California has agreed to pay out $9.7 million in damages—and possibly millions more in attorney’s fees—to settle a class action lawsuit alleging sex discrimination against 3,200 female workers at the university-run Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The lawsuit alleged women experienced bias in promotions and were paid less than male employees who performed […]
Yesterday’s Advisor began to cover Glassdoor’s recent webinar on The 7 Deadly Sins of Recruiting. Today, the two final sins from Glassdoor. 6. This is basic marketing stuff, so I don’t need executive buy-in. When it comes to making sure you have the best tools, data, and practices, it helps if you can get the […]
This year will be the year that you’ll want to invest more heavily in your management training programs. According to research, employees don’t leave jobs—they leave managers. And 70% of employees consider themselves to be disengaged at work, most often due to ill-fitted and improperly trained managers.
By Barbara J. Koenig, JD What can you do when an employee appears to be having mental issues, is performing poorly, has been warned about her substandard performance, and suddenly takes Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave?
Writing or auditing your AAP makes filling out your IRS Form 1040 look tame. But there is a resource to help you do it better and easier. The EEO-1 report recently written about in HR Daily Advisor is just one part of an effort by this nation to end discrimination in the workplace. It started […]
Time for another employee survey? We all know it’s an important tool for your business, but how do you ensure good participation numbers when everyone is so busy most of the time? Yesterday we explored how to communicate results. Here are some tips to get employees participating in the first place: