OK, HR pros, a show of hands: How many of you work for a business that makes a habit of staying closed the day after Thanksgiving? Both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day? What about the week between Christmas and New Year’s?
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Ready for the key that’ll unlock the door to employee satisfaction? Hint: For the past 10 years it was the economic concerns of job security and pay. Not now. There’s been a shift in priority.
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The feds’ disability insurance program is a complicated mess, says the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) — and something needs to be done to make it easier for employers to hire disabled people.
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In many ways, it’s an expected relationship: The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has allied with the American Association for Retired People (AARP) to create strategies that’ll help businesses hold on to valuable older workers.
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When it comes to proposed revisions to the Form I-9, three really is a crowd, according to two HR associations more-than-familiar with the employment eligibility verification process. Why’s that?
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Good news for employees and managers: Many companies are more open-minded and less insistent there’s only one way to get the job done — clearing the way for greater use of flex time and telecommuting.
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The Department of Labor’s idea to tinker with how intermittent family leave time is scheduled and logged is a bad move, says the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) — since it will strip employers of a powerful tool in discouraging tardy arrivals at work.
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There’s still time to get in your 2 cents’ worth on the proposed changes to the Family Medical and Leave Act (FMLA), before the feds move forward and finalize the new rules.
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Good news in the back-and-forth tug-of-war between Human Resources pros and the CFO’s office over the expense of making a new hire: Now there’s a way HR can measure the investment and show the return in terms the Finance people can understand.
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A Society for Human Resources poll of members provides some major news for benefits managers and about benefits in general.
