Stress management benefits and techniques
By learning how to deal with stress effectively, we can improve our overall well-being and perform better in our personal and professional lives.
Category: HR
Special delivery: considerations for pregnant employees
The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 (PDA) makes it illegal for employers to discriminate against pregnant employees and requires reasonable accommodations for an employee’s known limitations related to pregnancy or childbirth. Let’s look at how the PDA and the PWFA affect employers who have pregnant employees. We’ll be using West Virginia’s version as an example, though the others are similar.
Implementing DEI into today’s workforce
Workplace diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs are important initiatives that go beyond compliance-based discrimination and harassment programs. These programs focus on building an organizational commitment to ensuring individuals from broadly diverse racial, ethnic, gender, cultural, and other backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are included and fully supported in the workplace. BLR can help transform your DEI and compliance programs.
The do’s and don’ts of employee wellness programs
If you’re looking to implement an employee wellness program in 2023 or are simply taking stock of the one you already have, it’s essential to think over a few best practices. Here are some do’s and don’ts of great employee wellness programs. If you truly want your employees to be well, which all good HR professionals do, it’s important to consistently evaluate if your policies and programs are on the correct path.
Hiring and retention strategies to support your DEI efforts
DEI programs should first build and then support an organization-wide commitment to ensuring individuals from broadly diverse backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are included and fully supported in the workplace. By making key changes in your hiring and retention efforts, you can expect significant and persistent increases in workforce diversity and opportunity. Learn from BLR Managing Editor, Celeste Duke, SPHR in this information-packed on-demand webinar where she’ll discuss tips and best practices for hiring and retention that support your workplace’s DEI efforts.
PEOs and ASOs, oh my!
Learn more about the differences between a PEO and ASO and what these relationships offer to your business.
Exploring the next ‘quiet’ workplace phenomenon and what to do about it
First, the buzz was all about “quiet quitting” as overworked employees quietly cut back on their tasks to help them cope with job stress. That trend was countered with “quiet firing” as supervisors who noticed the slowdowns looked for opportunities to push quiet quitters out the door. And now, employer review site JobSage has turned up evidence of what it calls “quiet promotions”—the phenomenon created when employees find themselves with more work and responsibility without an accompanying raise or title change. What should the not-so-quiet response be from employers? A few employment-focused companies have some advice.
Q&A: Asking for minimum salary requirements on employment applications
We are an employer that operates in multiple states. We would like to include a field on our employment application that requests an applicant’s minimum salary requirement or requested salary. Are there any laws or other things we should consider? HR Hotline provides the answer in this blog post.
Employee who worked in one state but lived in another seeks unemployment
It can be confusing when an employee lives in one state but works in another and then seeks unemployment benefits after termination. In which state should she file? A recent case before the Arkansas Court of Appeals provides some guidance.
The federal effort to ban non-competes
In early January, the Federal Trade Commission issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to broadly ban the use of non-compete covenants nationally.