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How Rudeness Stops People from Working Together
Incivility can fracture a team, destroying collaboration, splintering members' sense of psychological safety, and hampering team effectiveness. Belittling and demeaning comments, insults, backbiting, and other rude behavior can deflate confidence,…
Need Employees with Up-to-Date Skills? Use Up-to-Date Training
Getting employees to make time for learning and development (L&D) is challenging for L&D professionals, according to a new report from LinkedIn. One reason may be the way in which…
Employers’ Usual Rules Apply to National General Strikers
Businesses can enforce their typical absence rules if their workers participate in the Feb. 17 National General Strike, but exercise caution
Creditable Coverage Disclosures Are Due to CMS by March 1
Employers whose health care plans include prescription drug benefits for employees or retirees who are Medicare-eligible must report to the federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) by March…
Employee Loses Wellness Plan Challenge
An employee who temporarily stopped receiving health insurance coverage due to a refusal to submit to a wellness plan test but who then received retroactive coverage could not challenge the…
Older Employee Subgroups Can Bring Age Discrimination Claims
A subgroup of employees ages 50 and older can bring an Age Discrimination in Employment Act claim that they were disfavored relative to younger employees—even younger employees who were over…
NLRB Attorney’s Memo on Football Players Encourages Unionization at Colleges
Scholarship football players at private universities are employees and should be permitted to unionize, wrote the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) general counsel
Fortune 500 Graded “C” in Recruitment Marketing
One-third of the Fortune 500 scored an “A” or “B” on their recruitment marketing efforts. Recruitment marketing platform developer SmashFly ranked the 2016 Fortune 500 an overall “C” average or…
8 Things to Consider When Updating Employee Handbooks for 2017
Federal and state legal developments over the last year brought a lot of changes that impact workplace policies and procedures, making it critical for companies to review their handbooks for…
Candidates Choose Jobs Because of Company Culture
Job seekers are most likely to choose one job over another because of the chosen employer’s culture, according to talent acquisition professionals surveyed by the Korn Ferry Institute