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4 Indirect Methods for Evaluating HR Competency Proficiency
Though there are advantages to using direct methods of evaluating competencies—you may be communicating with employees and candidates, which can generate engagement—it is often valuable to use an indirect approach…
Variable Pay Plans Are Pushing Aside Holiday Bonuses
Bonuses bestowed on workers as an end-of-year holiday gift are becoming scarcer, while variable pay plans that tie payouts to meeting individual and organizational goals, usually paid in the first…
New York Cybersecurity Regulation Means Important Work for HR
To protect consumer data at financial institutions, New York enacted a regulation, in effect since March, requiring banks, insurers and certain other private-sector organizations to institute a series of cybersecurity…
Japan: The Layoff that Didn’t Fly
Layoffs for economic circumstances exist under Japanese law, but are exceedingly difficult to achieve without constituting wrongful dismissal. One major international airline is learning this the hard way
‘Cadillac Tax’ Will Hit Majority of Employer Plans
The "Cadillac tax" on group health plans—a 40 percent excise tax on high-value coverage—will eventually apply to all employers and, should it take effect in 2020, it will cover most…
Leave Employees Alone During FMLA Time Off
HR professionals should not call an employee into work for any reason during Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) time off, employment law attorneys say
How Employers’ Haunted House and Fright Night Went Way Wrong
Workplace Halloween celebrations can be more than just frightful if workers are injured during the festivities. Halloween-related injuries at work happen more than you might think
DOL Calls for Temporary Halt on Overtime Rule Case
The litigation over the Obama administration's overtime rule should be paused while the Department of Labor develops a new rule, according to a motion that the department is expected to…






