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How to Practice COVID-19 Safety When Reopening Your Retail Business
Brick-and-mortar retailers were already struggling before COVID-19. Now, as states slowly begin to reopen, these businesses must figure out how to keep workers and customers safe while simultaneously adhering to…
How to Create a Healthy Building for Returning Employees
Buildings play a central role in the spread of disease, from measles to SARS to influenza and the common cold. But they can also help us fight against it
Small Businesses Face Dire Scenario in COVID-19 Shutdown
Small business owners have been struggling mightily through the COVID-19 pandemic, especially those in service industries and with fewer than 100 employees, and many don't think federal and state governments…
Bringing Them Back: Questions for HR from Returning Workers
As employees begin to return to their workplaces after weeks under COVID-19 stay-at-home orders, they will have questions. After all, the world changed suddenly because of the deadly coronavirus pandemic…
5 Tips to Increase Productivity While Working Remotely
A number of these remote-work arrangements were implemented suddenly, leaving employees and managers alike to navigate a new work reality alongside personal anxieties and concerns about the public health crisis.…
New Online Job Ads Down 45 Percent
New online job postings—ones that are a week old or less—on global job site Indeed were down 45 percent for the week ending May 1 compared with the same period…
How to Handle More Work-from-Home Requests
As employers reopen their worksites, they’re responding to an influx of telecommuting requests. Organizations need to follow consistent criteria in granting them
Court Upholds Strict Noncompete Tied to Incentive Payments
A voluntary incentive investment plan created by a government recruitment firm that barred signing executives from acts of disloyalty against it or its subsidiaries for 30 months after departure was…
8th Circuit Grants NLRB’s Request to Enforce Election Outcome
A union election conducted according to the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was enforceable, so the employer had to recognize the union as its employees’ exclusive bargaining representative, the 8th
Uber and Lyft Face Employee Misclassification Lawsuit in California
California officials are suing ride-hailing service giants Uber and Lyft for allegedly misclassifying drivers as independent contractors instead of employees. Coronavirus concerns have raised more questions about the Golden State's…