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Should your company close for a week to innovate, plan?

04/25/2019
Even if a leader advocates for employees to be creative and pursue new ideas, organizations rarely allocate time and resources. Enter the “organizational charrette,” a new management practice in which the entire company closes shop for one week so every employee can focus on innovation and future planning.

Young employees don’t get enough career development

04/23/2019
Only 12% of training professionals surveyed by the Association for Talent Development say their organizations provide effective career development for employees with less than five years of full-time work experience.

The HR I.Q. Test: May ’19

04/18/2019
Here’s your monthly quiz on HR news and trends.

LEAP 2019: The Top 10 Lessons for HR

04/18/2019
Hundreds of HR professionals gathered in Las Vegas on April 3–5 for the HR Specialist’s 15th annual Labor & Employment Law Advanced Practices Symposium. Here are some of the bits of employment-law wisdom from the 30 speakers.

OSHA: Killeen, Texas gun range ordered to get the lead out

04/16/2019
Workers at a gun range in Killeen, Texas were exposed to unsafe lead levels, according to the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration.

Teen employment expected to rise in tight labor market

04/16/2019
While just 35% of teens aged 16-19 participated in the labor market last year, job opportunities could increase around 5% this year.

Positive tests for pot hit 14-year high last year

04/16/2019
More workers are testing positive for marijuana than at any time in the last 14 years, according to data compiled by Quest Diagnostics.

Remember to heed the ____ Effect!

04/11/2019
Business practices and the study of the mind have always gone hand-in-hand. Psychological effects are often applied to human nature in professional environments. Here are some interesting ones you may not have heard of.

FLSA and transportation violations for SoCal company

04/10/2019
A citrus and avocado distributor in Oceanside will pay 45 workers $13,641 in back wages after investigators from the U.S. Department of Labor found it violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Migrant and Seasonal Worker Protection Act.

Employee certifications: Should you pay?

04/09/2019
Facing a vise-tight labor market, employers are pulling out all the stops to retain top talent. One increasingly popular tool is to cover or offset employees’ costs for their professional certifications.