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In one case, an HR manager who reported to top management made a complaint. Soon thereafter he lost all his staff, was moved to another area, and found himself reporting to a middle manager. His new boss said to him, "I don’t know why they sent you to me. I don’t have anything for you […]
Find the balance, Moldover says. When you get wind of a manager’s action that might be retaliatory—like denying a raise—put the situation in context and try to view it from the employee’s perspective. Context Matters With retaliation, context matters, Moldover says. Of course, no one’s going to be happy about losing a raise, but a […]
“Pay or play” refers to the idea that employers must either provide healthcare insurance coverage that is above a certain standard (yet affordable for all employees), or they must pay a penalty for failing to provide such coverage. This will start on January 1, 2014. This is just one of the many issues employers are […]
Human resources professionals have been tackling 21st century challenges for better than a decade. But determining just how a bombardment of change affects leadership, innovation, and creativity sometimes get lost in the effort to keep up with an array of dizzying developments. Research exists, though, that can help focus HR’s thinking. Creative Age leadership Employee […]
by Karen Gwinn Clay Q Our management team wants to mandate that every employee get a flu shot. I know there will be resistance from our employees on differing grounds (religious belief, fear, and the like). Help! A Unless an employee is in a health care setting, this is a difficult call. For hospitals, nursing […]
by David S. Fortney Previously, we took a look at how the Office of Federal Contact Compliance Programs and the Department of Labor will operate under the second term of President Barack Obama. In this post, we look at what the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have coming […]
By Stephen D. Bruce, PHR Editor, HR Daily Advisor It’s a sad day for me, says business and leadership blogger Dan Oswald. Hostess Brands, the maker of Twinkies®, Ho-Hos®, and Ding Dongs®, is going out of business. While my midsection may not look like it, I haven’t had a Twinkie—or any other Hostess product, for […]
The Scooter Store will pay $99,000 to an employee whose disability it failed to accommodate, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The company, a national retailer, refused to give an employee with psoriatic arthritis time off work and fired him. EEOC sued on his behalf alleging that the employer failed to accommodate his […]
By: Sarah Swank Credit: Ober|Kaler Published: January 16, 2013 In 2009, concerns about a swine flu pandemic convinced some employers to consider requiring employees to be vaccinated. Now that we are in the midst of another flu epidemic, some employers are once again weighing the costs and benefits of a mandatory flu shot policy. In […]
Oswald, CEO of BLR, offered his thoughts on trust (and Twinkies) in a recent edition of The Oswald Letter. Twinkies were a part of my childhood. Somehow, on occasion, we could convince my mother to pick up a box of those golden treats with absolutely zero nutritional value. That was no small feat! My mother […]