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By Jessica Webb-Ayer The wait is over: The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that the massive healthcare reform law (also known as the Affordable Care Act, or ACA) enacted in March 2010 is constitutional. So what happened, and what does this mean for employers? Read the Supreme Court’s decision on Health Care Reform The most […]
If you can’t define it, you can’t measure it. If you can’t measure it, you can’t manage it. If you can’t manage it, you leave it to chance, say Noelle Nitz and Linda Duffy. Unfortunately, there’s a language barrier when HR people try to talk metrics to management. Nitz, President of the Institute for Financial […]
In part one of this article we heard from iCIMS Content Strategy Associate Raquel Lawrence about ways that HR’s employee data might not be as protected as you may think. Today we’ll hear more on the topic—specifically on proactive disaster recovery and an introduction to a survey about applicant tracking systems (ATSs).
For more than 15 years, Pre-employ.com has been an established leader of the background screening industry: This month, the company welcomes Phillip A Smith—an accomplished professional with extensive industry experience—to the role of President. “I am looking forward to joining the Pre-employ.com team and to working with its outstanding group of professionals,” said Smith. “This […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, attorney Mindy Chapman offered her take on e-mail dangers in the workplace. Today, her 10 sins of e-mail writers, plus an introduction to a unique CD collection of pre-written HR policies. Chapman, a popular speaker and consultant and president of Mindy Chapman & Assocates LLC, offered her tips at the recent SHRM […]
by Alexis Charpentier Workplace harassment is a complicated and evolving area of the law. The lines between an employer’s right to manage its employees and harassment are often blurred. Fortunately, the Court of Appeal of Québec has provided some clarity in a recent decision in Syndicat des travailleurs de l’aluminium d’Alma, local 9490 (Syndicat des […]
By Lyne Duhaime and Emilie Paquin-Holmested On February 3, 2011, the Federal Court of Canada issued a decision in Vilven v. Air Canada, the prolonged legal battle of two Air Canada pilots who challenged the company’s mandatory retirement policy for pilots who reach the age of 60. In that decision, the judge sent the matter […]
“You need to personally make sure that your company is a place where people want to work,” says Jon Gordon in his book, The Shark and the Goldfish: Positive Ways to Thrive During Waves of Change. “You must focus on winning in the workplace if you want to win in the marketplace,” says Gordon. Here […]
Every organizational system, be it performance management, feedback cycles, development, or succession planning, should communicate an organization’s values. When messaging across these systems is cohesive, engagement becomes repeatable. But when feedback, goals, and strategy feel disconnected, employee engagement plummets. Jenessa Disler, Senior Director of Talent Succession at McKesson, and SPARK HR 2026 speaker, knows that this kind […]
by Dan Oswald The NCAA men’s basketball tournament kicked off last week. It’s known as March Madness. Even if you’re not a college basketball fan, you may have filled out a bracket at home or for your office pool. More than 10 million people filled one out this year. Every year, my wife, our kids, […]