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USCIS Processing Delays Impede Employers
The federal office charged with improving immigration administration concluded that increased filings, technology challenges and insufficient staffing are the primary reasons for the processing delays. But others assert that the…
Form I-9 Expires Aug. 31
The federal government’s Form I-9, used by HR departments across the country to verify workers’ employment eligibility, is expiring at the end of the month
Decades of Experience Count in Executive Apprentice Program
An advertising agency broadened its diveristy efforts with an executive apprenticeship program for people with at least 30 years of professional experience in the corporate world
Quebec Workers Have a Right to Refuse Unsafe Work
Employees in Quebec, Canada, don’t have to perform tasks they believe would endanger their health. An employer cannot dismiss, suspend, transfer or penalize an employee because he or she exercises…
Weighing the Costs and Benefits of Sabbaticals in Europe
Workers’ sabbaticals hold potential benefits and risks for companies. In the best cases, they allow employees the freedom to grow outside the everyday structure of company life—but they also bring…
Autism at Work: Hiring and Training Employees on the Spectrum
While people with autism spectrum disorder often have difficulties with social communication and interactions, and thus difficulties finding and keeping a job, research shows that there can be business benefits…
Ontario: Enforcing Non-competition and Non-solicitation Clauses
When are non-competition and non-solicitation clauses enforceable in Canada? A recent Ontario decision examined these clauses in the context of an employment agreement
Technology to Better Manage Contingent Workers Is in Demand
As the use of contingent workers continues to grow, many companies are trying to determine how to effectively assimilate these workers into their organizations, extend their performance management processes to…
Hiring Employees Sight Unseen
As the economy becomes more global, dispersed and mobile, it’s not uncommon for potential employees to find themselves interviewing with organizations where they never actually have a face-to-face interview—and may…
Active-Shooter Incidents Prompt Workers to Weigh Survival Tactics
The shooting in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that killed 22 people and wounded 24 others, has workers around the country thinking about how they would react during workplace…