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Commission-Based Financial Advisors Entitled to Overtime Pay
California employers may not realize that even if nonexempt employees are paid entirely through commissions, they may be entitled to overtime pay if they work beyond a certain number of…
Here's How Managers Can Help Women Stay in the Workforce
According to the National Women’s Law Center, 865,000 women dropped out of the workforce in September when their kids went back to school or began online learning from home. But…
How Managers Prepared Professors to Teach During a Pandemic
As universities across the country decided how to approach the fall academic school year during the pandemic, a common theme was how supervisors should prepare professors for remote or hybrid…
Here’s How to Encourage Employees to Take PTO
As health officials urge everyone to stay close to home and limit contact with people outside their households during the winter holidays to stop the spread of the coronavirus, many…
Dealing with Employees in Crisis: Options and Resources for Today’s Turbulent Times
2020 was an exceptionally challenging year, given the COVID-19 pandemic, economic challenges, furloughs and layoffs, remote work, racial tensions and an uncommonly divisive presidential election. As a corporate leader today,…
From the CEO: Remote Work and an Inequity Time Bomb
It was a Friday the 13th we’ll never forget. On that day in March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic was declared a national emergency
Digital Tools to Address Rising Mental Health Concerns
Like many people around the world, employees at SurveyMonkey were experiencing social isolation, stress and uncertainty as a result of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Among the topics taking a toll…
7 Tips for Starting a New HR Job Remotely
By now, millions of Americans have grown accustomed to working from home because of the coronavirus pandemic. And that’s not such a bad thing
Biden Likely to Ramp Up Pay-Equity Fight
On the campaign trail, Joe Biden made addressing gender-based pay inequality a key plank of his outreach to women. Here are some of the legislative and regulatory actions his administration…
Walmart Executive Highlights Adjustments to Pandemic
The chief people officer and senior vice president for Walmart Mexico and Central America discussed the company’s adjustments to the pandemic at the SHRM Global Mobility and Immigration Symposium