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“I want someone from the top of the class at a top business school, who has advanced rapidly at a fast-growing, respected firm (but I want to pay an entry-level salary).” That’s pie-in-the-sky recruiting—spinning your wheels with no results. In yesterday’s Advisor, we covered the first five prehire necessities. Today, we look at five more, […]
Yesterday’s Advisor helped managers understand the factors that are making certain jobs hard to fill. Compensation and benefits are important factors. (Duh.) Today, what employers can do about it.
It’s a familiar scenario these days: An older worker gets terminated because of the employer’s economic woes—and then turns around and sues the company for age discrimination. We’ll tell you the story of how one employer beat the charges.
by Leslie Silverman Over a 15-month period, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioners Victoria Lipnic and Chai Feldblum led a task force focused on understanding and preventing workplace harassment. On June 20, 2016, Commissioners Lipnic and Feldblum released a final report and recommendations based on their experience leading the EEOC task force. Task force and […]
Employers must ensure that employee handbooks are accurate and up-to-date, which means accurately reflecting the current state of California employment law—including recent FEHA changes that have gone into effect.
Education is often the best antidote to negative news about 401(k) plans. With this in mind, several retirement industry spokesmen have provided statistics to defend retirement plan management practices after the recent airing of a TV documentary that may have concerned some 401(k) participants. The U.S. retirement investment community was quick to react to the […]
by Traycee Ellen Klein and Erin Carney D’Angelo On Monday, December 13, New York Governor David Patterson signed the Wage Theft Prevention Act (WTPA). According to the governor’s press release, the new law: enacts more stringent and transparent record-keeping and employee notification requirements; increases the amount of wages that can be recovered as damages in […]
The New York State Department of Correctional Services will pay almost $1 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. The department was accused of providing inferior benefits to female employees on maternity leave. Both male and […]
An employer has reached a settlement with a union and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in which it agrees to pay $21.6 million for unfair labor practices, the NLRB has announced.