As more employees return, it’s important to understand the legally smart steps to protect your employees’ safety … and prevent legal trouble. Mistakes on these...
Coronavirus made it clear: employees perform perfectly well working remotely. But one thing that’s becoming muddy is the rights and responsibilities employers have for...
Developing diversity and inclusion (D&I) policies and guidelines isn’t just a “nice thing” to do anymore. It’s a vital step for any HR department—even small...
Chronic negativity frequently starts with only one or two employees, but it can quickly infect the entire workforce and demoralize everybody. When this happens, the...
Minute taking is a skill that great admins should develop. Just like anything in life, practice makes perfect. The more you take minutes and prepare them, the better you...
For HR departments, the legal process for completing I-9 forms has changed more in recent months than in the past 30 years. The same is true for the E-Verify system. One...
Maintaining personnel records used to be a whole lot simpler. Any HR department that wanted to be safe simply used a "keep everything" policy. These days, however, that...
Résumé bias. Systemic discrimination. Perpetuating past pay discrimination. AI bias. Obscure employment laws where your new remote hire lives and works. All these may...
For HR professionals, this year has triggered a whole new wave of legal risks related to employees’ medical and mental health. Can employees demand to keep working...
As COVID vaccines become more available, employers are being forced to navigate unprecedented new questions with their workforce. One wrong answer can trigger big legal...
Correctly documenting discipline—from insubordination to absenteeism to substandard work—is critical for both legal protection and employee communication. But most...
The world of work is forever changed and new employment law regulations are in the pipeline. Do the people managers at your company have the legal training they need...
President Biden has made it clear that pay equity and pro-union federal laws and regulations are key priorities, and as we close in on the first 100 days of his term,...
In every management job, coaching challenges arise. But these irregular times are creating a bigger need for supervisors to provide guidance or correction on a more...
The past few months have seen a dizzying amount of payroll changes, from the expansion of the pandemic-related payroll tax credits to all the work-from-home...
While you can’t prevent unplanned business disruptions, you can be prepared for them. A standard operating procedure is essential to helping maintain everything from...
The most basic question about the employment relationship—whether a worker is an “employee” or “independent contractor”—has baffled HR and employers for...
Employee leave laws have seen a swift and complicated change this year and last in response to the coronavirus pandemic. The FFCRA – the first-ever nationwide federal...
Make sure your organization protects itself from these evolving risks and understands all the vaccine best practices being used today by U.S. employers. You’ll get...
If you have any employees in California (even remote workers), you're constantly trying to keep up with the state's crazy maze of complex, ever-changing,...
