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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Happy Birthday, Jesus
Employment law attorney Justin Pierce tackles the tough question of whether an employer should allow an employee to hang a “Happy Birthday, Jesus” sign in his office. Q Last year at Christmas, one of our employees, we’ll call him “Bob,” put up a small sign in his office that read “Happy Birthday, Jesus.” A non- […]
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 […]
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.
Exec Comp—What to Expect for the Rest of 2012
In yesterday’s Advisor consultant Kurt Fichthorn revealed the “hot buttons” the ISS (Institutional Shareholder Services) looks for in executive comp packages. Today, his take on 2012 trends, plus an introduction to the all-compensation-in-one website, Compensation.BLR.com. Fichthorn , vice president in the Philadelphia office of Hay Group, was joined in his presentation at a recent BLR/HRhero […]
Latest Congressional Action Putting Pay Practices Under Scrutiny
With Congress considering a couple of bills aimed at preventing wage discrimination—and several states with pay equity laws already on the books—employers may want to take a close look at their compensation practices, according to attorneys who help employers with pay matters.
The Courtroom Shouldn’t Be Recordkeeping’s First Test
Litigation is the ultimate test of the adequacy of an employer’s recordkeeping practices, says attorney Allen Kato of the San Francisco office of Fenwick and West LLP. Of course, the courtroom isn’t the best place to find out that records are inadequate, incomplete, or nonexistent. Record retention is a daunting task for employers because there […]
Court Clarifies Standards for Mixed-Motive Claims
“Mixed-motive” discrimination claims are among the most confusing kinds of employment cases. A mixed-motive bias claim occurs when an employee alleges that bias was one of the reasons that the employee was terminated or suffered some other kind of adverse employment action. In these cases, the employer asserts that there was a legitimate reason for […]
Get Off on the Right Foot by Drafting an Effective Handbook
Often, the first document a new employee reads is the company handbook. A handbook serves many purposes, among them introducing the employer’s culture, communicating important policies, and setting employee expectations. If approached thoughtfully, a handbook is also a key tool for minimizing exposure to litigation.
Strong Documentation Defeats Employee’s ADA, ERISA Claims
Good recordkeeping and documentation is key in defending employment discrimination claims, a recent court ruling illustrates. An employee terminated for performance problems alleged that he was fired in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, because of his wife’s disability. The employer, however, produced evidence showing that: (1) the employee’s performance was subpar; (2) he […]