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Safety Doesn’t Take a Summer Vacation
Summer is here, and temperatures are rising across California. Are your employees who work outside safe? Just weeks ago, a teenager in Modesto died from heat stress on the job, working in fields. This kind of tragedy doesn’t have to happen, and with proper precautions you can ensure that your workers are safe when they […]
DFEH Reports Rise in Employee Complaints
The California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) recently issued its 2008 Annual Report, noting a 15 percent increase in employee complaints over the previous year.
New California laws, NLRB rulings require social media policy changes
Social media policy changes seem to be continuous. Have you updated your employee handbook to reflect the latest California laws?
‘Love Contract’—What’s That?
There have been a slew of reports recently about executives carrying on affairs that end up coming back to bite them. The most notable headline: CIA Director David Petraeus’s affair with his biographer, a relationship that directly led to his resignation. In another report, an exec, the president of Lockheed Martin Corp., was forced to […]
Tips for Improving Recruiting Efficiency
In yesterday’s Advisor, we looked at recruiting efficiency can be a great boon. Today we’ll look at efficiency tips across three more aspects of the recruiting process.
‘Let-it-all-hang-out’ Diversity Training
Most organizations these days believe that "diversity" produces better results. But things get tricky when it comes to diversity training. It’s easy to do significant legal damage, especially with "let-it-all-hang-out" sessions . One of the favorite moves of diversity training facilitators is to ask employees to drop all pretenses, and just go ahead and express […]
HRDA Frankly Speaking: Why Inclusion is a Leader’s Real Legacy
When the political landscape gets tough, how do you keep business leaders committed to building inclusive workplaces? During a recent panel on “Building Belonging Without Backlash,” Kitty Chaney Reed, the retired VP & Chief Leadership, Culture and Inclusion Officer at IBM Corp., shared that the secret isn’t talking about corporate buzzwords or policy shifts—it’s about […]
Layoffs: Big Brother is watching you
Breaking News: President Bush Signs ADA Amendments Act Yesterday, President Bush signed the ADA Amendments Act of 2008. For more details on the new law, click here. The changes take effect Jan. 1, 2009. Get ready to comply–attend our audio conference on the new law on Oct. 8.
Web Surfing at Work–Can You Stop It?
It seems that no matter how many times you remind employees to stop personal use of the Internet, they keep on surfing. Today’s expert has solutions. Internet usage at work is tough one, says Laura E. Innes, a partner at the law firm of Simpson, Garrity & Innes in South San Francisco. But there are […]