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If your business is open and looking for employees and/or customers to come back in person, are you utilizing COVID-19 liability waivers for either the customers or the employees?
How to Avoid a PR Nightmare: Lessons Learned from CloudFlare’s Viral Firing of Tech Worker
Brittany Pietsch, a former account executive at Cloudflare, recently gained viral attention by sharing a nine-minute video of her termination on TikTok. Anticipating the termination after her colleague’s dismissal half an hour earlier, Pietsch titled the video, POV: You’re about to get laid off. Enjoy the trauma! 🙂 In the video, two company representatives who […]
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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)’s guidance for locating missing participants in the event of a plan termination has become more widely accepted for finding such participants in a variety of scenarios. But the guidance does not clearly state at what point the retirement plan fiduciary has met its obligation to track down missing participants […]
Why You Need to Focus on Talent Development More Than Ever
Talent makes all the difference in the survivability of any business. Facing a tight pandemic economy, Human Resources (HR) workers have a responsibility to cultivate talent as a focus of their business approach.
Sales Comp Winners: Hurdles, Modifiers, and Matrices
Special from WorldatWork Total Rewards 2013, Philadelphia Hurdles, modifiers, and matrices are basic building blocks of sales comp programs, says consultant David Cichelli, CSCP. Each is suited to a different situation. Cichelli, who is senior vice president of the Alexander Group, offered his tips at WorldatWork’s Total Rewards 2013 Conference and Exhibition, held recently in […]
How One Company Supports Employees with Mental Health Issues
Mental health awareness seems to be at an all-time high among employers. Articles, webinars, and online HR events have all focused on this important issue. But where does that leave the countless employees out there right now suffering from a wave of mental health concerns? I recently spoke about the issue with Betty Thompson, EVP […]
Metrics: 2 Common Errors That Make Them Worthless
Metrics guru Dr. John Sullivan says that human resources managers make two key mistakes when using metrics. Sullivan is a metrics consultant and professor of management at San Francisco State University. Mistake #1: Metrics in a Vacuum The first mistake, says Sullivan, blogging on www.ere.net, is that comp/HR managers tend to develop and implement metrics […]
What’s the Meaning of ‘Sex’? Supreme Court Will Finally Provide the Answer
The Employment Law Question of the Decade is: Does the prohibition against sex-based discrimination include discrimination based on gender identity and sexual orientation? After countless debates on the issue in courts throughout the land, the U.S. Supreme Court is finally primed to give its answer in three cases being argued this term.
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