?The Massachusetts Appeals Court recently held that home inspectors were independent contractors and, therefore, ineligible for unemployment benefits. Tiger Home Inspection, Inc. v. Director of the Department of Unemployment Assistance overturned a... Read more »
?Since the start of the pandemic, workplaces have come to rely on Zoom and other video platforms for meetings. Employees now spend five times more time in virtual meetings than they did... Read more »
?Former employment attorney and author Jathan Janove writes for SHRM Online on how to inject greater humanity into HR compliance. He welcomes your questions and suggestions for future columns. Contact him at the e-mail address... Read more »
?Yrthya Dinzey-Flores once worked for a media and entertainment company that was committed to enhancing their diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) efforts. But they had no data to track their progress. She... Read more »
?On July 29, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit overturned National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulings that Browning-Ferris Industries of California wasn’t a joint employer, reviving a... Read more »
?Takeaway: When having an employee sign an arbitration agreement, a company should obtain convincing proof of the authenticity of the signature. If the agreement is signed electronically from a work computer, the... Read more »
?Job openings fell by over 600,000 to 10.7 million in June, according to the monthly JOLTS report released by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The largest decreases in job openings were in retail... Read more »
?Imagine hiring a new employee who, when she showed up to start the job, was not the same person you had interviewed. That may be happening more often than you think. On... Read more »
?The recent outbreak of monkeypox in the U.S. and around the world poses an issue for employers whose employees—such as health care workers—are more susceptible to contracting the nonfatal virus. As of... Read more »
?On July 20, a bipartisan group of legislators introduced a bill in the U.S. House to allow businesses to continue classifying their gig workers as independent contractors, while providing the gig workers... Read more »
