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Part-time workforce requires full HR effort

03/13/2024
Around 28.1 million Americans work part-time jobs, according to a January report by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. If your organization employs lots of part-timers—or is considering shifting work formerly done by full-time employees to part-timers—consider these factors.

Ensure all pre-employment qualification tests are specific to the job and your needs

03/11/2024
Once you have made a job offer, you can only require physical qualification tests that are job-related and consistent with business necessity. The rule is designed to ensure that tests don’t have a disparate negative impact on members of protected classes.

Tight labor market could get tighter: Fewer workers planning to change jobs

03/06/2024
While job openings remain elevated and talent shortages persist, there is less attrition in the labor force, as fewer workers say they plan to change jobs this year. According to new research from employment and outplacement firm Robert Half, only 36% of workers plan to look for a new job in the next six months, down from 49% in July 2023.

4 metrics for measuring background-screening efficiency

02/21/2024
At least 94% of employers perform some kind of background screening on job applicants before they hire. That doesn’t mean all those checks were conducted efficiently. Let’s look at four metrics that companies can use to measure the performance of their background-screening providers.

$4.35 million lesson: Ensure safety of teenage workers

02/20/2024
Many teens as young as 14 work fast-food and retail jobs. They’re often not aware of their rights in the workplace, what constitutes harassment and where they can turn if they are harassed—or worse.

6 ways to cut legal risk of employee-referral programs

02/16/2024
Employee-referral programs can be a reliable, inexpensive way to find great talent. But you probably don’t realize that they carry a hidden legal risk, too.

What managers need to know about hiring

02/16/2024
While legal problems can crop up during an employee’s tenure, the two events that carry the most legal risk for employers are the hiring and the departure of an employee. Hiring discrimination lawsuits are particularly dangerous. To stay out of court, managers should build their hiring process around these principles:

THE NEW I-9 FORM

02/16/2024
The change of the calendar to 2017 carries with it a new paperwork duty for all employers—trash your old version of the I-9 (the Employment Eligibility Verification form) and start using the new version.

20 ‘Silver Bullet’ Interview Questions That Identify Great Job Applicants

02/16/2024
Interview questions come in all flavors. Sometimes they’re straightforward, sometimes they’re tricky and sometimes they’re just plain weird—“If you were an animal, what kind would you be?” But the best interview questions focus on what applicants know how to do. Here are 20 questions you can use to elicit the information you need to pick the right person for the job.

Recruiting Gen Z: 5 ways to align your culture with their values

02/07/2024
With January’s unemployment rate holding steady at a low 3.7% for the third straight month, employers continue to struggle to attract the workers they need. Could Generation Z—the cohort of young people born in 1997 or later—be the staffing solution today’s employers need?