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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.
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