?More than half of federal-sector equal employment opportunity (EEO) complaints since 2018 have included an allegation of harassment, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The agency is working to... Read more »
?Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Do you have a chronic complainer on your team? Most of us have worked with... Read more »
Overselling.Oversharing.Avoiding eye contact.Watching the clock. Using loaded phrases such as “We have a fast-paced culture,” which should have been axed years ago. Managers who behave in these ways while interviewing job applicants run the risk... Read more »
?Fred Meyer Stores, a supermarket chain based in Portland, Ore., illegally disciplined workers for wearing items with the Black Lives Matter logo, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative judge recently ruled.... Read more »
?The barriers to advancement that women face in the workplace have been well-documented. However, a new report by Linkage, a women’s leadership development firm acquired by SHRM, revealed that many organizations aren’t... Read more »
?The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released a new “Employee Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)” poster to reflect recent legal changes made under the Providing Urgent Maternal Protections... Read more »
?U.S. worker productivity year-over-year has declined for five straight quarters for the first time on record. Does that support the arguments made by critics of remote work that traditional, in-person work produces... Read more »
?The U.S. Supreme Court recently declined to hear a reverse discrimination and retaliation case brought by two white police officers who opposed a diversity initiative. The two former Michigan State Police officers... Read more »
?Former employment attorney and author Jathan Janove writes for SHRM Online on how to inject greater humanity into HR compliance. Jathan welcomes your questions and suggestions for future columns. Contact him at the e-mail... Read more »
?The rise of remote and hybrid work arrangements has largely erased the boundary between work and home and re-energized the debate over work/life balance. Multiple surveys have found that as employers require... Read more »
