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NLRB Division of Advice: In-Store Protest Wasn’t Protected
An in-store protest by off-duty employees at a Starbucks store wasn’t protected by the National Labor Relations Act, according to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in an advice memo
UK: Coronavirus-Related Reasons to Carry Over a Holiday Entitlement
Special rules were introduced earlier this year that allow workers to carry over any unused holiday entitlement if COVID-19 meant that it was not reasonably practicable to take holiday. This…
Employers Consider Child Care Subsidies
Some employers are helping employees with children by providing child care subsidies during the pandemic. These typically are employer-provided spending accounts or bonuses designed to help cover the costs, in…
8 Behavioral Skills for Increased Job Security
There are eight behavioral skills we all need on the job. Known as transferable or soft skills, they are based on a sequence of learnable behaviors that increase your
Viewpoint: Conduct Careful Background Checks for Racism
Following racially fraught incidents, checking for evidence of racism has become a key litmus test for corporate recruiting and hiring. Companies can no longer afford the fallout of installing candidates…
Trump and Biden Envision Different Paths to Retirement Security
There is not a lot of overlap among the proposals that President Donald Trump and his Democratic challenger, Joe Biden, support regarding private-sector and government retirement benefits. Here is an…
Worker Bound by Arbitration Agreement in Employee Handbook
An employee who signed an acknowledgment that he had received the company’s employee handbook agreed to an arbitration agreement contained in the handbook, a California appeals court ruled
Career Planning? Consider These HR Technology Roles of the Future
The accelerating adoption of new technologies in human resources, made more urgent by the COVID-19 pandemic, is changing the skills, roles and jobs that will be needed in the future.…
HR Data Analytics in the Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic
HR data analytics have become more critical to the human resources team at Humana Inc., as the health insurance company learns more about how its employees are coping during the…