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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Website Accessibility Suits Increase, But Regulations’ Fate Unclear Under Trump
Lawsuits alleging that inaccessible websites violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) have increased drastically in recent years, even without regulations requiring such accessibility.
Tips for Becoming a Best Place to Work from a Best Place to Work Company
When you hear the term “Best Place to Work,” what companies come to mind? Does your company make that list? If not, you may want to reconsider your corporate culture in order to attract top talent who are looking to work at Best Place to Work companies.
Why the Old Hiring Paradigm Needs Rethinking
You have critical job openings and you need to recruit quickly. Traditionally, you go to market for a top external candidate or look for an internal promotion or a horizontal move by a talented employee. Continuing with time-tested HR approaches, your selection criteria focus on the candidate’s previous relevant experience, educational background and area of […]
Just How Important Are Career Development Tools?
New findings from Bridge Instructure and a Harris poll suggest that when their career development tools are either absent or lacking, employees are much more likely to leave for another company.
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.
Avoid These Errors in Hiring and Recruiting
Yesterday’s Advisor covered the first three critical hiring mistakes; today, more errors, plus an introduction to the all-things-HR-in-one-place website, HR.BLR.com. Go here for mistakes 1-3 4. Making Poor Selection Decisions Especially if you have not done a good job of gathering information about candidates, it’s easy to rely on one of these misleading factors: […]
Case Study: Unpaid Leave of Absence Can Be Appropriate ADA Accommodation
When an employee comes to you with a proposed job modification to accommodate a health condition, consider the requested accommodation. But remember: You can offer a different accommodation that addresses the employee’s health condition but doesn’t pose the operational challenges the employee’s requested accommodation would cause. That’s the route UPS took with one of its […]
For the Record, Meticulous Retention of Plan Documents Is Crucial
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) requires that every employer maintain sufficient records for each employee to be able to determine the benefits due to the employees now or in the future. The plan sponsor has responsibility for retaining retirement plan records even when a third-party administrator (TPA) is hired to provide recordkeeping and […]
EEOC Puts Off EEO-1 Surveys until 2021
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced it won’t require private-sector employers to submit EEO-1 data this year.