Are New College Graduates ‘Career Ready’?
It depends on the definition of “career readiness,” and whom you ask.
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Executive Compensation: Who Gets ‘Say on Pay’?
How these companies respond could have a direct impact on their compensation administration in the future because regulators will provide guidelines that prohibit incentive compensation that encourages inappropriate risks (by providing excessive compensation) or that could lead to material financial loss. Legislation Affecting Executive Compensation: What is Say on Pay? Say on Pay "requires a […]
Is It Sexual Harassment? Let’s Go to the Video
Evaluating sexual harassment claims almost always requires weighing conflicting evidence and making credibility determinations. In such situations, whoever is evaluating the claim—whether a court or an HR manager—must thoroughly examine all relevant evidence to determine whether the allegedly harassing conduct occurred and whether the conduct constitutes actual harassment because of sex or something else. Those […]
Worker Misclassification and the Freelance Economy
The freelance economy continues to grow, and from many indications, workers and companies each enjoy the benefits.
401(k)s Under Assault — What Are Best Employers Doing?
For years, BLR® has surveyed HR and benefits professionals to find trends in benefits. We appreciate your participation in our monthly series of brief, targeted benefits surveys. Today’s survey topic: 401(k) Plans. (We’ll publish the results in a future issue.) Please participate in this brief survey and we’ll determine just how employers are handling their […]
2014 Employer Holiday Practices Survey (Slide Show)
BLR has released the results of the new 2014 Holiday Practices Survey, which examines employer practices for providing paid holidays and paying nonexempt employees during the 2014 holiday season and provides information on planned paid holidays for 2015. The slide show below highlights survey findings and links to an article by BLR Legal Editor Susan […]
CHERYL and Employer Liability for Cybernetic Harassment
Ladies and gentlemen, you are experiencing history in the making. For the first time in “EntertainHR” history, the same author is doing a post on the same episode of the same show. However, there is a slightly different issue here.
7th Circuit Rejects Associational Discrimination Claim
One of the unusual features of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is that it includes a provision prohibiting discrimination “because of the known disability of an individual with whom [the employee] is known to have a relationship or association.” A recent decision by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Illinois, Indiana, and […]
Unique Passion Drives Broad and Meaningful Impact
While many of the diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) leaders we speak to as part of our ongoing series on DEI executives came into those roles almost fortuitously, our subject for this iteration has been involved in DEI efforts since his college days. Darrell L. Johnson, Jr., MBA, is the manager of diversity and inclusion programs […]
Hire for More than Warm Bodies
The ripple effects of the COVID-19 crisis continue to increase as the unemployment rate rises to levels we haven’t seen since the Great Depression.