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Facebook recently revealed more details about planned changes to its employment advertising system that are designed to prevent discrimination.
Employees abusing leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is alive and well, especially in summer. Fortunately, there are several ways to keep employees from misusing FMLA leave. Here are 10.
Since the 1980s, we’ve experienced explosive growth in the HR profession, the employment law profession and HR consulting. At the same time, we’ve experienced explosive growth in employment litigation. What we haven’t experienced is improvement in assuring harassment-free workplaces. And we haven’t experienced improvement in HR effectiveness in preventing harassment.
A worker who claimed that his new employer fired him after his prior employer falsely said he was bound by a noncompete agreement can proceed with his lawsuit against the former employer, a California appeals court ruled.
A California bill that would require large employers to file with the state government annual pay-data reports with information sorted by race, ethnicity and sex has cleared a key hurdle. Now the state Assembly must decide the bill’s fate.
A federal appeals court brought new life to President Donald Trump's executive orders that could make firing employees and weakening their union representation easier for federal agencies.
A quiet virtual reality revolution is occurring at Walmart. Since 2017, when the company began using virtual reality headsets in its training centers—called “Walmart Academies”—Walmart has used the technology to improve the employee experience, better assess workers’ skills and present new ways of training staff.
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The IRS added treatments for a range of chronic conditions to the list of preventive-care benefits for which a high-deductible health plan (HDHP) can pay—even if a plan enrollee's health care spending hasn't surpassed the plan deductible—without running afoul of the rules allowing pretax contributions to health savings accounts (HSAs). The change is expected to make HDHP/HSA plans more attractive.
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., struck down a lawsuit challenging a 2018 Trump administration rule that expanded the scope of short-term, limited duration insurance (STLDI) plans sold on the individual health insurance market. STLDI plans, which need not comply with all of the Affordable Care Act's coverage requirements, can be a lower-cost alternative to COBRA for some employees. Premiums for STLDI plans can be paid by employers through excepted-benefit health reimbursement arrangements.
A class action lawsuit on behalf of Yale University's workers alleges that the university's employee wellness program uses financial incentives that violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA).
Leap years, such as 2020, can be a headache for HR and payroll professionals—resulting in an extra payday in the calendar year, depending on when and how employees are paid. The problem of an extra pay period, however, isn't exclusive to leap years.
Gossiping. Backstabbing. Falling morale. Fading respect for leaders. What workplace event could cause all these things? An extramarital affair. Romances between co-workers, and extramarital affairs especially, tend to raise eyebrows. So how is a manager or HR director supposed to deal with it?
Thanks to recent negotiations among state lawmakers, it appears that California employers may get a temporary reprieve on some of the more sweeping data-privacy requirements that were set to take effect in just a few short months.
On June 12, 2019, Nevada Gov. Steve Sisolak sign into law SB 312, which will require Nevada private-sector employers to provide employees with up to 40 hours of paid leave a year.
A federal district court ruling confirms that employers that are covered by the Federal Arbitration Act can rely on arbitration to resolve sexual harassment disputes, despite the efforts of a state legislature to limit the claims that may be sent to arbitration.
