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EEOC: Mandatory Antibody Testing Is Prohibited
As employers grapple with how to screen workers for COVID-19, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) clarified that the Americans with Disabilities Act prohibits mandatory antibody testing before allowing employees…
Your Hiring Assessments Could Get You in Trouble
Hiring assessments can be a slippery slope for employers, especially when they rule out protected employees and create disparate impact
Juneteenth Sees an Upsurge of Interest in 2020
Today is Juneteenth, the observation of the historic day of June 19, 1865, when Gen. Gordon Granger led his Union soldiers into Galveston, Texas, and announced the Civil War had…
Paul Falcone Columns
Paul Falcone is a regular contributor to SHRM Online
Initial Jobless Claims Dip, Still High at 1.5 Million
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Shaping Employees’ Experience
Human resources managers, beware: Before you decide to invest more in HR activities that you think will raise employee satisfaction, you might want to consider the “shaping” approach to design…
Viewpoint: Stay Interviews Matter More Than Ever
Stay interviews drive leaders on each level to ask specific questions, listen, take notes and probe for more information. By doing this, supervisors can be trained to cut turnover and…
ICE Extends Relaxed Enforcement of Form I-9 Rules
Organizations that are operating completely remotely will be able to continue to defer the requirement to review Form I-9 documents in person with new hires until July 19
New Types of Jobs Emerge from COVID-19
The number of jobs lost as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic has far surpassed the losses seen during the 2007-09 Great Recession, and no one’s sure how many of…