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It’s important to recognize that you need to be able to document an employee’s compensation history, not just their current salary, says consultant Judith Mickey. Look at the employment lifecycle: Start rates (identify overqualified applicants) Pay increase documentation Pay decrease documentation Wage freezes, etc. Mickey, of HR Consultants, Inc., offered her comments at the recent […]
Globalization brings the opportunity for companies to join the global market, diversify, and hire from a wider pool of talent, but it also comes with a variety of challenges.
It’s Women’s Equality Day and this year’s theme celebrates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying U.S. citizens the right to vote based on sex. While we celebrate the milestone of women’s voting rights, there are still many issues surrounding women’s […]
Note: Jignasha was an HR Works Podcast 5-Minute Friday guest. Listen to that here. HR is one of those jobs that provides the opportunity to be more than just a job. HR professionals interact and engage with whole organizations and therefore often have a significant amount of influence over the employees and leaders. People-oriented HR […]
Benefits—they can be great assets to your recruiting program and boost your overall compensation package, but employers have to be ever mindful of costs. Read the results of our Perks and Insurance Survey to see how your practices compare with what other companies are doing.
We’ve all played hooky every now and then, but most of us have actually made an attempt to tell our boss we’re not coming in. In India, two completely different people played hooky and have finally been caught—after missing work for over 20 years!
The U.S. 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (whose rulings apply to all New Mexico employers) recently affirmed the summary dismissal of a sexual harassment discrimination lawsuit against a pipeline construction company and a pipeline operator’s successor-in-interest but sent the related premises liability claim back to the lower court.
Your supervisors need to understand alternate-duty work—what it is and what it isn’t. Share with them the following important information on this topic. Alternate-duty work is one of the most important ways to ease a recovering employee’s return to work. Alternate-duty work is a transitional phase for a worker recovering from a job-related injury or […]
More companies are adding at least one pay equity audit to their annual planning. Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) research from 2021 shows that 58% of organizations have reviewed their pay structures and decisions, with enterprise-level businesses taking the lead. More than 8 out of 10 said they adjust salaries to account for inequities. These statistics […]
The U.S. Supreme Court was widely expected to decide between religious rights and LGBTQ rights when it issued its ruling in Masterpiece Cakeshop vs. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, the case involving a Colorado baker who refused to bake a cake for a gay wedding. But—in the tradition of the Supreme Court—the justices ducked the main […]