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In Focus: Pride Month Ends with Legal Brief to Protect LGBTQ Employees
Sexual-orientation discrimination is a form of sex stereotyping and wrongly penalizes lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) employees, attorneys general for Connecticut, New York, and Vermont said in an…
Texas Passes Ban on Texting While Driving
On June 6, Texas became the 47th state to enact a statewide ban on texting while driving. Employers in the state should carefully evaluate existing policies and the nature of…
Design Thinking Delivers Improved Recruiting Outcomes
Design-thinking principles, including emphasizing the user experience and measuring process improvements with metrics, can help employers address their recruiting challenges
What to Do When Bedbugs Bite at Work
Bedbugs—those nasty parasites that feed off human blood—are typically a household problem. But every now and then, the critters find their way into the workplace, as they did last week…
How ACA Employer Provisions Differ from the Republican Health Care Bills
A chart detailing the differences between the employer provisions of the Affordable Care Act and the Republican health care bills
2nd Circuit Revives Muslim Woman’s Claim over Hostile Comments
The 2nd Circuit revived a black Egyptian-Muslim woman's claim that two supervisors at Astoria Bank created a hostile work environment through racial and anti-Muslim comments
Labor Department Seeks More Information on Overtime Rule
New rulemaking on the overtime rule could be brewing
Nevada Supplement: Table of Contents
Nevada employee handbook resources provided by XpertHR
Your Career Q&A: Worried Your Skills Won’t Transfer Well?
Want to make the jump from government HR to the private sector? Study your chosen industry and show how your skills align with what's needed to do the job. Best-selling…
Supreme Court Partially Reinstates Trump Travel Ban
Workers who have accepted job offers and students who have been accepted to