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7 Essentials for Purpose-Driven Training

So you have great content for your training session, but how’s your delivery? Bob Pike, a well-known motivational speaker in the training profession, presented seven strategies for designing and delivering training that makes the difference between being effective and being a dud. Here are the essential tidbits I took from Pike’s presentation at a recent […]

Single Slur Requires Jury Trial on Hostile Work Environment Claim

On July 29, 2024, the California Supreme Court issued a unanimous opinion in Bailey v. San Francisco Dist. Attorney Office, Cal., No. S265223 and held that the employee’s claims of racial harassment should proceed to jury trial, as well as that the trial court’s decision to dismiss the case in favor of the employer was in […]

Have Streaming and Online Services Really Been a Game Changer for Training?

Yesterday we began our special three-part question-and-answer session with Steve Rozillis, head of Customer Evangelism at Panopto, concerning contemporary methods of capturing training sessions. Today we’ll look into why it’s so important to store lectures and what streaming and online services have brought to the table.

HR Professionals Can Help Solve Cybersecurity Problems

by Maurice Uenuma Yesterday’s Advisor illuminated how a lack of training has the potential to increase the risk of cybersecurity breaches at your organization. Today, Maurice Uenuma, chief operating officer for the Council on CyberSecurity, explains how HR professionals are integral to the security of enterprise data and networks.

Service Provider Reviews Don’t Lead to Greater Turnover

One result of the new fee disclosures requirements and retirement plan sponsors’ new duty to ensure reasonable service fees has been increased review of many plans’ provider costs. Through requests for proposals, comparative benchmarking and renewed scrutiny of current providers, plan committees and sponsors are endeavoring to learn if they are paying too much for […]

Train Workers to Engage in Safety Practices Off the Job, Too

Are your workers in double jeopardy from hazards at work and at home? Suppose that in his latest hearing test, you notice that a young worker is showing a standard threshold shift, an indicator that he has suffered some degree of hearing loss. Your workplace is noisy enough to cause the hearing loss, but the […]

DOL Expands Family Leave for Same-Sex Parents

by Julie K. Athey The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released a new “administrative interpretation” (AI) that clarifies the circumstances in which an employee may take leave to care for a child for whom they act as a parent but aren’t legally recognized as such. As has been pointed out in numerous press reports […]

Family and Medical Leave: Ruling Makes It Tougher for Employees to Prove a Serious Health Condition Entitles Them to Leave; Medical Certification Requirements

Antonina Lonicki worked as a technician in the sterile processing department of Sutter Health Central in the Sacramento area. Lonicki performed the same work duties at a second job on weekends for Kaiser Permanente. Over time, Lonicki alleged, her Sutter workload increased and became hectic and stressful. One day, when Sutter unexpectedly changed Lonicki’s shift, […]

Motorola Launches Third-largest U.S. Pension Buyout, Hopes to Shed $4.2B in Obligations

Motorola Solutions Inc. will shift about $3.1 billion in pension obligations to around 30,000 retirees in its frozen defined benefit plan to Prudential Insurance Co. at the start of 2015. The risk transfer becomes the third-largest of its kind, after similar moves in recent years by General Motors Co. and Verizon Communications Inc. At the […]