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by Mark I. Schickman The New York Times is the second largest newspaper in America, with about two million papers sold each day. It’s also the liberal beacon of American journalism, with solid-gold progressive credentials. Still, it took the paper 160 years to hire Jill Abramson as its first female executive editor in 2011. In […]
As HR professionals, you might sometimes find it’s easy to take parts of your job for granted — completing I-9 forms, signing employees up for health insurance, and overseeing annual performance evaluations. Unlike routine paperwork, however, performance evaluations are an important part of effective management and can be critical in defending against employment litigation. And […]
A diverse workforce can be a major benefit for an employer. And diversity certainly isn’t limited to simple gender diversity or race diversity. Diversity in the workplace can mean ensuring that individuals of different ages, sexual orientations, national origins, physical ability levels, religions, and even different upbringings or social backgrounds are included.
Special from the Advanced Employment Issues Symposium, Las Vegas In yesterday’s Advisor consultant Andrew Botwin offered his take on employee engagement; today, he reveals 14 signs of disengagement, plus we get an introduction to the all-comp-in-one website, Compensation.BLR.com. Signs of Disengagement Botwin, who is CEO of SPC (Strategy People Culture) Consulting Florham Park, New Jersey, […]
By John C. Pitblado By now, you know that the old “sticks and stones” schoolyard adage is way off: Words can hurt you. You may be surprised to find out how few words (in this case, a 12-word phrase in an e-mail) it takes to really hurt an employer that’s facing a discrimination claim. HR […]
Lockton—a consulting services company—has released its third annual “Human Resources Trends: A Spotlight on Absence Management” survey. The survey highlights the many challenges—and opportunities—facing employers across the United States.
By Shelley I. Ericsson, JD The purpose of the FMLA is to allow an employee to manage a serious health condition (his own, a spouse’s, or a family member’s) without fear of losing his job. An employer cannot interfere with an employee’s FMLA rights or take action that appears to be penalizing the employee for […]
Business Week ranks business books that are the most recent bestsellers and provides a short summary. 1. Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell. As you’d expect with Gladwell, there are lots of surprises in his explanation of why some people succeed fantastically. Pluck and smarts get less play here than such matters as […]
Litigation Value: allowing office staff to take over the warehouse and invent a new loading method = several bizarre Workers’ Compensation claims; Andy asking Oscar about his “wildest fantasy guy” while choosing new warehouse personnel = yet more fodder for Oscar’s potential claims; and controlling your own destiny = priceless. This week’s episode started off […]