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Diversity of Autism Offers HR Challenges
Since autism affects individuals in a wide variety of ways, it’s important for employers to respond with individualized approaches, when necessary. It’s also important, experts say, to focus on the quality of work by the employee instead of his or her social skills.
Measuring Competency One Badge at a Time?
Some organizations are talking about awarding badges to demonstrate skills, but the practice is still in its infancy. Nevertheless, HR leaders should make sure hiring managers are aware of this potential new trend. CHROs may also want to consider using badges in their employee-development activities …
Future of Class-Action Cases Still Unclear
Six months after the Supreme Court’s decision denying certification in the largest class-action ever brought, the impact continues to ripple throughout the state and federal court systems. Defendants must now be able to show much more individual proof of bias than before — and belonging to a single …
Will Shortage of Talent Derail the Brazilian Economy?
Brazil is on track for yet another year of above-average GDP performance. This boom, however, poses challenges for the country. Chief among them is a shortage of qualified labor.
Jobs Headline the Davos Meetings
The need for more job creation, increased training and education, and concern over rising income inequality dominated the discussions at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting. And people from the emerging economies — especially China, India, Brazil and the smaller countries of Southeast Asia — …
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Are reference checks a waste of time?
Q. We are re-examining our applicant screening process. One idea we’re considering is eliminating calling previous employers for reference checks. We haven’t found those calls to be very helpful, because most former employers will only confirm dates of employment and job title. Is th …
Doggedly stubborn law firm sued over access for service animal
You would think that a personal-injury law firm would be sensitive to a client’s need for a service dog, but apparently attorneys at the firm of Larkin, Axelrod, Ingrassia & Tetenbaum are unfamiliar with Title III of the ADA.
Medical records: Do’s and don’ts
Medical records are among the most sensitive documents employers maintain in personnel files. They must be afforded the utmost protection, so no transgressions arise regarding the ADA, HIPAA, the FMLA and other similar medically-sensitive federal and state regulations.
How should we handle difficult firing meeting?
Q. We recently decided to terminate an employee based on performance concerns. The employee is in sales and is required to cold call a certain number of individuals each day. In reviewing the daily call logs, the employee’s manager discovered that she has been calling the same disconnected …
President proposes new pay rules for home health workers
In an attempt to right what he perceives to be a wrong-headed Supreme Court decision, President Obama is asking the U.S. Department of Labor to change FLSA regulations covering home health care workers.
Lean HR
A discussion of using Lean tools and technology to drive change and streamline processes throughout the HR value stream. Mostly, anyway.
How Fun Was The SOPA Blackout?
The answer: Great fun indeed. Oh sure, I couldn’t read Dinorsaur Comics for a while. Or XKCD. Or Cyanide and Happiness (that one’s a little NSFW, justsoyaknow). But other than my webcomic needs, my favorite Firefox add-in (Morning Coffee, in case you didn’t know) functioned …
Should HR Care About SOPA?
The Stop Online Piracy Act (or SOPA, as it has come to be known) is about to cause you some problems, whether you or for or against it. Even if you don’t know what it is. In short, SOPA is all about holding people accountable for the content of their site. There’s more to [...]
Social Media Recruiting Basics
I’m certainly no expert on the subject, granted. In fact, I’m excited to attend the Social Recruiting MacGyver Style! webinar hosted by our friends at Fistful of Talent. So I would consider myself a novice. Maybe a little more than that, but not much. So I think it makes me perfe …
How to Terminate an Employee
I’m not the first to write about this topic, for sure. But I saw an article on Yahoo! titled “How to Break Up With a Woman” and I thought, “Yup. That’s about right.” (BTW, why is it no one ever worries about how to break up with a guy? It’s always th …
Are You Scared?
You may remember that I’m a fan of Peter Krause from his SportsNight days. So I’ve been watching his new show, Parenthood. (It’s not great, but better than most of what fills up prime time lineups these days.) So, short version, there was a nice scene in a recent episode wher …
