Steps to Take Toward a (Smart) Smartphone Policy
In yesterday’s Advisor, we discussed the wage and hour compliance dangers of employee cell phone use; today, help with crafting intelligent cell phone policies.
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Employers Need to Guard Against COVID-19 Derailing Diversity Efforts
Employers are accustomed to resisting discrimination in the workplace during typical times, but these are not typical times. The rapid spread of the COVID-19-causing coronavirus has led employers to focus on other priorities.
Suffering Tech Overload? How to Help Employees Get App-Happy
People rely on all kinds of technology to get their work done. Zoom meetings, Slack messages, scheduling apps, and other tools keep the workplace humming. But at what point does all that tech do more harm than good? Can employers and their employees find the sweet spot—the point where apps make work and life run […]
Understanding the Importance of Employment Branding During Uncertain Times
Employment branding, aka employer branding, refers to influencing how your organization is perceived as an employer. Employers put a lot of effort into ensuring their organization is well positioned and has a good reputation.
Does Asking About Prior Salary Create Potential Liability?
The Equal Pay Act (EPA) makes it illegal for employers to pay unequal wages to men and women who perform substantially equal work. It allows for differences in pay, but sex cannot be a factor.
Travel Pay: What Time Is Paid Work Time When Nonexempt Employees Travel?
We’re having a devil of a time figuring out precisely how to pay our nonexempt employees when they travel. If they travel by air and stay overnight, do we start paying as soon as they leave their house for the airport? Then let’s say the plane lands at 7 p.m., they go to the hotel, […]
Best of AI 2025
AI has been the hot topic in the workplace during 2025. We’ve seen any and everyone take on the AI discussion in the HR industry, and after a few years of testing, we’re seeing the technology finally find its niche, while understanding what it may not be best at. Throughout AI’s journey from a world-changing […]
I-9 Verification Just Got Easier
On August 1, 2023, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) published a revamped and streamlined Form I-9, which must be used starting November 1. The biggest change, however, is DHS’s creation of an “alternate procedure” that will make it easier for employers to inspect an employee’s work authorization documents. In lieu of a physical document […]
Policy Enforcement: Can We Enforce a New Version of a Policy That Hasn’t Officially Been Changed Yet?
We have a policy we’re planning to change. We told the affected employees that we will be handling the issue a particular way, but we didn’t explicitly tell them that the new practice is contrary to what is in the handbook, or that we intend to change the policy as it is currently stated in […]
How Can AI Benefit HR Management?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is popping up frequently in HR-related literature as holding the potential to offer big benefits for many types of organizations and roles, including human resource management. A TLNT article offers four specific applications.