Issue: Courts are cracking down on employers that tolerate customer harassment of foreign-born employees. Risk: Supervisors sometimes are more lenient with harassment by customers than by employees. That’s a big …
Issue: Safety-conscious companies look beyond the bottom line. Benefit: In addition to reducing costs and boosting morale, safety can be promoted as a recruiting tool to applicants. Action: Reduce …
About 15 percent of the 650 hiring managers in a recent CareerBuilder survey said they wouldn’t hire someone who failed to send a thank-you note after an interview. Another 32 percent …
How will your organization respond if a human bird flu outbreak strikes? A major flu pandemic is possible and now is the best time to prepare for the worst. Advice: Consider …
Nationwide, severance benefits have declined a bit since 2001, according to a survey of 1,030 HR executives by consultant Lee Hecht Harrison. Only one-third of employers changed their severance policies during …
Wrapping up a year in which natural disasters and ongoing war grabbed the headlines, look for corporate gifts, including those to employees, to focus more on charity and comfort than on …
There may be areas of your workplace that supervisors, and maybe even HR, rarely visit, such as locker rooms, loading docks and break rooms. But don’t take a “hear no evil, …
No federal law grants job discrimination protection for people due to their sexual orientation or “gender identity,” but many employers are unaware that several state and local laws make workplace bias …
Look for the U.S. Labor Department to issue proposed regulations by the end of 2005 that will encourage employers to automatically enroll employees in their 401(k) plans. Currently, most employers …
If you employ commercial truck drivers, take note of new federal rules governing how much time they can drive before having to take breaks. The U.S. Transportation Department rules took …