Making Sustainability a Business Advantage
How to drive top-line growth with triple-bottom-line thinking
Marijuana Laws: Navigating the Shifting Landscape
Although pot is still illegal at the federal level, 28 states have now passed comprehensive medical marijuana laws, and eight of them, as well as the District of Columbia, have…
How Do You Deal With Difficult Employees?
You went into HR because you love people, right? But admit it—sometimes those people can be real pains. In every group, there seems to be at least one person who saps…
Career Lessons from Coretha Rushing: Always Re-Create Yourself
SHRM's new board chair and Equifax CHRO talks about the path that led her to HR, how she sees the profession evolving, and what HR professionals can do to stay…
9 HR Tech Trends for 2017
Understand--and prepare--for dramatic changes shaping the HR technology market
Your Career Q&A: How Can You Increase Your Job Security?
Best-selling author Martin Yate, a career coach and former HR professional, takes your questions each week about how to further your career in HR. This week, Martin advises an HR…
Know Before You Hire: 2017 Employment Screening Trends
Human resource professionals conducting pre-employment background checks in 2017 will have to adapt to the growth of the ban-the-box movement and the gig workforce. They’ll also need to take care…
Unpaid Overtime Results in Lawsuit
A Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) agent can sue the KBI director for his firing, which was allegedly in retaliation for his refusal to adhere to the director's demand that…
Viewpoint: Time to Revisit the Electronic Distribution Rules for SPDs
For most employers, creating and distributing summary plan descriptions (SPDs) for each health plan option is viewed as a necessary evil. Complicating matters are the nearly 15-year-old Department of Labor…
