Why You Need a Content Strategy for Your Training Initiatives
Marketers have been implementing content strategies for decades, and it’s time for learning and development (L&D) departments to implement them, too.
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Amazon’s Essential Worker Challenges
Amazon is a massive organization. The online retailer is the largest internet company in the world, by revenue, and one of the world’s most valuable companies. With nearly one million U.S. workers, it’s also the second largest private employer in the United States (after Walmart). With so many employees engaged in such large-scale operations, it’s […]
Workplace Harassment and Discrimination: What’s the Difference?
Harassment and discrimination – two words no one wants to hear or experience, especially in the workplace. While at work, employees expect to be in a professional, safe and respectful environment. However, for many employees, this is not the case. Unfortunately, regardless of company size or job title, any employee can be subject to both […]
10 Ways Employers Should Prepare for Final Overtime Regs
By Susan Prince, JD The Department of Labor’s (DOL) final overtime regulations are due out anytime within the next few months. Here are 10 steps employers should take now to prepare for the release of the final regulations.
Is Your Retirement Plan Ready for a DOL Investigation?
A U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) investigation of an employer-sponsored retirement plan may originate in a variety of ways.
In Defense of Not-My-Jobism
One of the most derided phrases in the workplace is “that’s not my job.” It’s been assumed that those who use this phrase are unwilling to help their colleagues for the benefit of the broader team and company and are indifferent to problems that don’t precisely fit their job descriptions. The lack of ownership captured […]
Ask the Expert: Employee Reveals Possible Disability to Coworker—What Can We Do?
Today I was advised that an employee told one of his coworkers that he was sorry for working slow on a project; his explanation was that he has a blood clot in his leg and takes blood thinners. We are concerned about his safety and his ability to continue to perform his work. He does […]
This Hair-Raising Job Will Really Give You a Headache
Most jobs will give workers a headache once in a while. But a hair-raising job highlighted in a new series of articles on workplace pain gives discomfort in the scalp, neck, and shoulders—and the danger of falling 35 feet to the ground! In the pain.com original Web series “Pain in Unique Work Places,” Documenting Causes, […]
Employers Expected to Resume Diversity Training Plans as EO Fizzles
Employers are feeling free to resume their diversity training plans now that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has reportedly suspended enforcement of President Donald Trump’s Executive Order (EO) restricting how certain employers can conduct training aimed at combating discrimination.
Immigration, Travel Ban Debates Put Focus on National Origin Discrimination
As reports of tense situations related to national origin flood the news—everything from slurs directed toward people from countries included in President Donald Trump’s travel ban to insults aimed at Hispanic people trying to enter the U.S.—employers need to be on notice of the dangers of national origin discrimination.