Tag: california hr

Employment Tests: New EEOC Fact Sheet Highlights Avoiding Bias When Screening Job Candidates and Employees; Five Best Practices

Selecting the best person for the job—be it a new hire or a candidate for promotion—is crucial to any organization’s success. But if you’re using tests and other selection procedures to help you make sound employment decisions, it’s important to be aware of how federal antibias laws limit the use of screening tools. To that […]

Employment Law Tip: A Simple Precaution Against the ‘Superbug’ at Work

While staph infections have long been linked to hospitals and other healthcare settings, with increasing frequency a super-drug-resistant staph strain—known as MRSA (methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus)—has been spreading in other communal locations, such as schools and workplaces. During a recent audio conference, experts Jeffrey Hageman, an epidemiologist at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, and Dr. […]