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New research from global staffing firm Robert Half and Happiness Works, a provider of tools that help businesses become better places to work, finds that employees in the creative and marketing occupations have the highest levels of on-the-job satisfaction and are most interested in their work, compared to employees in accounting and finance, administrative, legal, […]
Just My E-pinion By Stephen D. Bruce, Ph.D.Editor, HR Daily Advisor Our recent The Company Watchdog: Should It Be YOU? e-pinion set forth the idea that HR was really the only part of any organization set up to catch illegal or abusive behavior toward workers. The column garnered many responses, but they didn’t tell a […]
How many years back into the past can a criminal background check go? What is the difference between an investigative consumer report and a regular consumer report? Can you have different screening processes or factors that warrant disqualification for different positions? These are just a few of the questions that were asked by participants in […]
Over the last several years, social networking websites like Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn, and Twitter have evolved to the point where most employees use at least one, if not several, of them throughout each day. Social networking sites provide an easily accessible medium for individuals to stay in contact with friends, colleagues, clients, prospective clients, and […]
By Katharine Essick, JD, Sedgwick LLP A recent California decision provides employers with a useful review of the complex landscape of disability discrimination and identifies a number of signposts for the unwary. The most important lesson from this case, however, is that when an employer evaluates an employee’s disability, the legal consequences of a factual mistake—even an […]
Even as advocates for a positive candidate experience appear to be making inroads in corporate America, small businesses seem to be missing the message.
What if an employer interested in improving the health of its employees—and reducing its health insurance premiums—could slap a device on workers to show statistics on physical fitness? Not only could the people participating in an employer-sponsored wellness program track their own progress, the employer also could see just how hard participants in its program […]
Every leap in hiring technology has promised transformation. Most have delivered only incremental progress. Despite decades of digital upgrades – from newspaper classifieds to online job boards, faxed résumés to LinkedIn profiles – the basic logic of recruiting hasn’t changed. Companies still grow their teams the same way they always have: one job post, one recruiter, one […]
As companies consider offering student loan assistance to entice Millennial job seekers, they may want to consider that the newest generation entering the workforce probably won’t find the benefit as attractive—or necessary.
Frank Lemon, the service manager for Fresno-based heavy equipment distributor J.M. Equipment Co., was fired without warning for making a sexually explicit remark to a female employee. Lemon sued, arguing that the company had until then tolerated a pervasive atmosphere of vulgar language and sexually charged conduct and that he was really terminated because J.M. […]