Except for the recent brouhaha about raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour, the business press routinely ignores the more than 60 percent of American … Read more
The Big Benefits Your Organization Gets From Collaborative Hiring
For hundreds of years, managers have owned the hiring process. However, as more companies learn the benefits of shifting away from top-down decision-making … Read more
How Uber Is Pushing Us to Answer the Challenges of the “Freelancer Economy”
While reviewing a client’s policy manual the other day, I asked whether the sick leave policy — which allows employees to use sick time to care for unwell … Read more
Classic TLNT: The Biggest Lies You Always Hear From HR
Editor’s Note: Readers sometimes ask about past TLNT articles, so every Friday we republish a Classic TLNT post. In my never ending quest to beat a blog … Read more
Does This Kind of Behavior Make For a Hostile Work Environment?
By Eric B. Meyer Here’s a little new math: 1 crotch grab + 1 N-word + 1 threat + 4 sex slurs = 0 hostile work environments. You won’t find this one … Read more
It’s Not a Surprise, But We’re Now in a Candidate-Driven Job Market
Permanent and temporary placements will continue strong through the end of the year, and may even increase, as more companies are reporting plans to add … Read more
It’s Time We Reinvent Performance Management for Today’s Business Challenges
The traditional performance management (TPM) process has not kept up with contemporary business challenges. Using an outmoded performance … Read more
The Growing Business Value of Employee Mental Health
A lively conversation among business leaders about how to effectively – and legally – promote mental health in the workplace is now full swing. … Read more
New Workplace Legal Issue: Discrimination by Association
By Eric B. Meyer We all know that the Americans with Disabilities Act makes its unlawful for an employer to discriminate against an individual on the basis … Read more
Appellate Court Throws Out Labor Department’s Internship Test
By Eric B. Meyer If you thought you knew when to pay (or not pay) an intern, think again. A federal appellate court just blew up the U.S. Department of … Read more