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Survey: 70% Allow Sick Leave for Family Illness, But Few Offer Paid Leave

Additional Findings:   Over half of all companies (56%) offer child care assistance to employees, most commonly flex time or leaves of absence. However, few companies offer paid leave (14%) or unpaid leave (29%) for childcare, conducted with readers of the HR Daily Advisor. 20% of companies offer paid leave (excluding sick leave) for spouse […]

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Eliminating Pedigree Bias Is a Winning Strategy for DEI Hiring

Over the last 2 years, employee churn and unprecedented job openings have caused the software engineering sector to rethink its hiring strategies. It is more important than ever for organizations to demonstrate their commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. This commitment includes recognizing an enormous problem in recruiting today: pedigree bias. With the […]

5 Tips for Regaining Our Stride in Post-COVID-19 World

Here are some personal musings on the past year and how its lasting lessons may in fact make us all stronger at work and in the most important venue of all, our lives. After all, as Einstein once said, “Failure and deprivation are the best educators and purifiers.”

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The Great Resignation as an Opportunity for Staff to Shine

The Great Resignation has created historic labor market headaches for companies across a broad spectrum of industries and organizations. Although a historic worker shortage is a challenge for employers, it’s always possible to find silver linings in even the most daunting of circumstances. For labor-strapped employers, one of those silver linings is the ability to […]

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IRS Extends Health Coverage Tax Credit through 2021

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced on December 28 that it will extend the Health Coverage Tax Credit (HCTC) through December 31,  2021. The HCTC, which allows a tax credit to offset up to 72.5 percent of the cost of health insurance premiums, applies to workers who lost their jobs due to trade-related reasons or […]

NLRB Allows Employer Searches of Workers’ Cars and Use of Communication Devices

Employers may search employees’ personal property, including their vehicles, when on company premises, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently ruled. The NLRB also affirmed employers may monitor employee activity on company-issued communication devices, computer systems, and networks.

Make Sure You’re Fit to Administer FMLA Fitness-for-Duty Requirements

Maybe you’ve experienced this: An employee has a serious health condition, you provide the required Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) paperwork, and the certification form either comes back not fully filled out or so vague that you’re unable to figure out whether a serious health condition even exists. In these circumstances, FMLA regulations spell out […]

Finding Joy in Bringing Neurodiversity to the Workplace

The business case for bringing diversity to an organization has been made. Certainly, having people from varied backgrounds with different ideas and perspectives can give a business an edge over competitors. Plus, morale flourishes when people feel included and appreciated. Often, though, diversity efforts are focused on race, ethnicity, and gender, but Abigail Erickson-Torres, CEO […]