Recruiting for Those Critical, Hard-to-Fill Jobs
Yesterday’s Advisor helped managers understand the factors that are making certain jobs hard to fill. Today, what employers can do about it.
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Avoiding Gender Discrimination: Train Your Team on Using Correct Pronouns
Does Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibit discrimination based on gender identity (as part of its prohibition on gender discrimination)?
Faces of HR: How Equifax’s Chris Johnson is Making HR the Hero
Chris Johnson isn’t your typical HR leader—and that’s his superpower. As Senior Vice President and General Manager of Employer Services at Equifax Workforce Solutions, Johnson leads a team dedicated to providing HR professionals with people-driven, data-powered solutions. His goal? Take the heavy lifting out of HR compliance so employers can spend less time on administration and […]
Early Life Experiences the Motivation for DEI Executive’s Career Choice
Long before Veronica Calderon held a job with the words “diversity,” “inclusion,” and “equity” (DI&E) in the title, those concepts were part of her nature. She says she’s long been one “to champion the causes of the underdog and disenfranchised.”
It’s Always a Good Idea to Plan Ahead
In yesterday’s Advisor we looked at reasons 1 through 8 for having a succession plan at your organization. Today we’ll look at the rest of them! Planning ahead can be a hassle, but it behooves a company to spend some time looking at their internal talent and thinking about who could replace who in a pinch. […]
How to Use LMS Software to Pinpoint Compliance Training Gaps
When you hear the phrase “compliance training,” odds are you immediately feel a rush of boredom. Perhaps you get visions of an all-day seminar and the sting of a costly bill for an instructor, a facility, and materials—even though employees will walk away having gained relatively little insight.
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.”
Massachusetts Pregnant Workers Fairness Act Takes Effect April 1
Massachusetts employers will face new obligations regarding pregnant women and new mothers when the state’s new Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) takes effect on April 1.
How are Companies Achieving Success with Gamification?
Gamification is about driving motivation, with the hope of engrossing us and mesmerizing us just as games do. In business, gamification isn’t about games developed for businesses, but the prudently calculated use of prevailing game design methods (design, action, fun, and competition) and procedures (leaderboards, points, and badges) to achieve a business outcome.
Was Graveyard Shift Transfer a Result of Discrimination?
A federal judge in Aberdeen, Mississippi recently heard an employee’s claims that she was rescheduled to the graveyard shift as a result of discrimination and that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment.