Menopause benefits—such as virtual care support and hormone therapy support—are a small but growing workplace trend. Companies including Microsoft, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and pharmaceutical firm Sanofi are among the roughly 4... Read more »
States reported that 217,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Nov. 4, an decrease of 3,000 from last week’s revised level. Unemployment claims remain at the low end of their... Read more »
Second-chance hiring advocates argue that the fear of being accused of negligent hiring—one of the main reasons given for not hiring people with criminal histories—is overblown. A recent report by the Legal... Read more »
Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with The Conversation to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. When people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true both when... Read more »
Weis Markets allegedly subjected an employee to sexual harassment and fired her when she refused to comply with an unlawful directive to participate in the company’s employee assistance program (EAP), according to... Read more »
Takeaway: A company that allegedly received trade secrets from a new employee and was sued by the employee’s former employer could not compel the claims to arbitration because the company was not... Read more »
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released two new sets of FAQs, called Volume 2 and Volume 3, to help employers correctly submit their 2022 EEO-1 forms. The guidelines, published on... Read more »
Julia Beck’s career was thriving when she nearly lost her life. Thirty years ago, Beck was in her 20s and had just launched her first media consulting agency in McLean, Va. Her... Read more »
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »
On Oct. 11, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill into law allowing for up to five days of time off work for reproductive-related losses. Senate Bill 848 makes it an unlawful... Read more »
