Free Report Friday: Get HR data out of Spreadsheets
Make a successful transition from tracking employee information in spreadsheets to managing it with personalized HR software that frees up time for meaningful work.
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March: Women’s History Month
On March 8, 1857, women from New York City factories staged a protest over working conditions. In 1981, 124 years after that historic protest, Congress established National Women’s History Week to be commemorated the second week of March. In 1987, Congress expanded the week to a month. Here are some facts about American women from […]
Bulletin Item: Gov. Schwarzenegger Calls For Resignations At The Department Of Industrial Relations
Although what the changes will mean to employers remains to be seen, there has been a big shake-up at the state agency that oversees employment matters. Among those leaving are Acting Director Chuck Cake, Acting Chief Deputy Director Suzanne Marria, and Labor Commissioner Arthur Lujan.
Best-in-Class Employers Are More Strategic about Managing Healthcare Costs
Faced with the need to attract and retain a competitive workforce and maintain or decrease overall operating costs, employers are looking for meaningful data to guide their benefit decisions.
3 Surveys Take a Novel View of HR
Three studies explore how HR professionals use their time, how the profession is regarded, and even how boring it is. Taking a day off this week for Memorial Day has allowed us a bit of time to reflect on HR as a profession. We’re helped in this by three surveys we’ve found that view HR […]
Multi-Solution Approach Embraced by Recruiters
New research shows that recruiters are facing hiring challenges with an array of strategies, rather than relying on just one technique.
Attending SHRM 2011 and Wishing I Could Be Cloned
I’m at the 63rd annual conference for the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) in Las Vegas, where I’m learning not only the ins and outs of HR, but the need for cloning. There’s so much I want to hear about — technology and HR, the latest on employee benefit issues such as health care […]
Payroll Tax Exemption for New Hires?
The U.S. Senate recently voted 62-30 vote to end debate on legislation that would give employers a payroll tax exemption for hiring new employees in 2010. The vote to end debate clears the way for a final vote on the legislation. Join us this fall in San Francisco for the California Employment Law Update conference, […]
Can I Toot My Own Horn?
BLR’s CEO Bob Brady invites you in for a “sneak preview” at something he and a lot of other good people have been working on for a long time. This column is about something I’ve been working on for over a year and something that will, I hope, benefit many of you. (And, if you’ll […]
‘But Nobody Told Me I Had To Get To Work On Time!’
Ridiculous as it sounds, “they never told me” is a standard defense in employment lawsuits. It plays to the jury’s sense of fairness, and it plays pretty well.