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Compensation & Benefits

How to contain health-care costs while enhancing the employee benefits experience

04/02/2025
According to Businessolver’s 2025 Benefits Insights Report, the days of choosing between cost containment and employee care are over. The most successful organizations are leveraging AI-powered technology to achieve both goals simultaneously. Here’s how you can join them.
Employee Relations

How to bridge the gap between listening and action

04/02/2025
The numbers tell a troubling story: While 95% of organizations maintained or increased their employee listening efforts last year, HR leaders’ confidence in these programs has plummeted from 43% to just 27%. This stark decline signals a critical challenge facing HR departments today—not in collecting employee feedback but translating it into meaningful action.
Employment Law

Recognize the bright line between harassment and run-of-the-mill personality clashes

03/31/2025
Employees don’t always get along—and you can’t force them to actually like each other. Take solace in the fact that unless workplace animosity creates a truly hostile environment, allegations of discrimination or harassment won’t succeed in court unless an employee can prove that a co-worker targeted him because of protected characteristics such as race, gender, religion or national origin.
HR Management

Review outsourced training to ensure it’s free of risky content

03/28/2025
As an HR professional, you know you must provide anti-harassment training. Otherwise, your employer faces potentially costly liability, because one of the key defenses against harassment lawsuits is the ability to prove you took reasonable steps to prevent harassment and put an end to it if it does occur.
Hiring

How to prepare for potential ICE worksite enforcement

03/17/2025
In some cases, it is reasonable to expect ICE agents will conduct workplace raids to identify and detain workers who lack authorization to work in the United States. Here’s how to prepare for a possible immigration enforcement blitz.
Terminations

Document termination decision before telling worker

02/28/2025
Always document disciplinary decisions the moment you make them—and before you tell the employee. That way, you can successfully argue that you could not have retaliated against the employee because the decision was made before you knew about their request.
Article Archives

Craft benefits strategies that satisfy multiple generations, from boomers to Gen Z

Invest in 4 key drivers to improve retention

May 2025: Employer’s business tax calendar

Clear violation of your rules? Courts won’t second-guess disciplinary decision

New EEOC guidance encourages employees to report DEI programs

How to prevent family caregiver bias claims

Managing people with limited professional experience

1-Minute Strategies: April ’25

Key takeaways from 2025 State of the Workplace Report

Never require work during military FMLA leave

Most frontline workers are trained by their managers

Gender pay gap narrows to 85%

Supreme Court hints it will set one standard for reverse-discrimination cases

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