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Viewpoint: The Silencing of ESL Speakers
While diversity and inclusion policies typically focus on overcoming biases based on race, ethnicity, disability, age, gender and sexual orientation, hundreds of millions of people are affected by another bias…
Your Career Q&A: How to Explain Why You Left a Job
Your reason for leaving a job is a "check-box question" for the interviewer, who just wants to know that you don't have skeletons in your closet. He or she will…
What Is HR’s Ethical Responsibility in the Digital Transformation Age?
Company executives are eager to supercharge their decision-making process with technology that helps them process massive amounts of data. Keeping a strong focus on their companies’ values and ethics when…
Viewpoint: Cultural Differences in EU Influence Recruiting
Employers should consider cultural differences to successfully recruit in Europe
Employing the Formerly Incarcerated: A Global Perspective
Much attention has been focused recently on second-chance employment in the United States. But what is happening in other countries regarding employing the formerly incarcerated?
What’s Next for the DOL’s Proposed Joint-Employer Rule?
Despite recent changes in leadership at the
Dallas Paid-Sick-Leave Law Takes Effect Despite Lawsuit to Block It
A Dallas ordinance took effect Aug. 1 requiring employers to provide workers with six to eight paid sick days a year, depending on employer size
Vietnam: Expansion of Employee Rights Proposed
A draft amendment to the current Vietnamese labor code was recently submitted to Vietnam’s National Assembly, pending approval in November. If passed, the amendment would replace the current labor code
Germany: Nursing Home Could Ban Worker’s Artificial Fingernails
In Germany, hygiene trumps a person’s preference for wearing long and polished nails, including artificial fingernails, when such nails might put a nursing home’s residents at risk