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Are your ‘best practices’ just that?

07/09/2020
Experts may recommend adopting best practices and performance benchmarks to improve your group’s performance. However, as management consultant Michael McLaughlin cautions, don’t import ready-made solutions until you’re sure they’ll work in your situation. Test each practice four ways.

An empathetic leader? Yes; a pushover? No

07/09/2020
In these difficult times, we look to business leaders to take the helm of their company with confidence and authority. However, now is not the time to rule with an iron fist.

Prepare for ADA suits driven by health fears

07/09/2020
Simultaneous health and financial crises have given us all plenty to fear. Surely you are doing your best to prove to employees that your workplace is safe. Most will be assured. However, a small subset of workers may remain paralyzed by safety concerns.

Union pushes for national covid safety rules

07/09/2020
The AFL-CIO labor union is leaning hard on the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a binding emergency workplace safety standard for dealing with covid-19.

Most employers addressed BLM protests with staff

07/07/2020
Employers are publicly embracing anti-racism and Black Lives Matter messaging in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd and subsequent weeks-long national protests.

Spring regulatory agenda addresses contractor, wellness issues

07/07/2020
The Trump administration’s Spring 2020 Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions—released late, on June 30—spells out what it hopes to accomplish between now and the end of the year.

Snapshot: Youngest workers are most diverse in history

07/07/2020
As of 2018, almost half of Americans age 21 and younger were not Caucasian.

The HR I.Q. Test: July ’20

07/01/2020
Here’s your monthly quiz on HR news and trends.

Avoid 3 critical errors when reopening the office

06/30/2020
In a still-confusing time, you want to get people back to work, and keep them there. But Dan Kaplan,a partner at Foley & Lardner’s Madison, Wisconsin office and a leader on the firm’s Coronavirus Task Force, has some reminders for us of the organizational and legal issues we cannot look past.

Coronavirus pandemic has us second-guessing careers

06/30/2020
After months of maneuvering through the coronavirus crisis, many employees are rethinking what’s most important when it comes to their careers, new research from global staffing firm Robert Half suggests.