A married executive insisted the subordinate he was romantically involved with would voluntarily leave the company so they could be together. She didn’t agree with those terms; he ended up out of a... Read more »
?A new set of proposed regulations in California gives companies some guidance on how they should handle sensitive personal data. On May 27, the California Consumer Protection Agency released new regulations pertaining... Read more »
?Takeaway: The one-year period given to an employee to file a bias lawsuit under FEHA after the DFEH has concluded its processing of the complaint may be extended when the employee missed the... Read more »
When politics, sex, race, religion, and other polarizing subjects come up in conversation among co-workers, what happens next? SHRM Chief Knowledge Officer Alexander Alonso, Ph.D., SHRM-SCP, explains why some topics are taboo... Read more »
?How comfortable is your staff with being themselves in the workplace? A recent Jobsage survey posed this question to 1,900 employed Americans. They do value being authentic, according to the study. However, 7 in 10... Read more »
?A recent ruling in Los Angeles Superior Court overturned California’s law requiring companies to include women on their boards of directors. The court found that the state’s gender diversity rule violates the... Read more »
?When an employee has a high-risk pregnancy, HR professionals frequently have questions about how to handle accommodation requests. Federal laws that may come into play are the Pregnancy Discrimination Act, the Family... Read more »
SHRM President and Chief Executive Officer Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, is answering HR questions as part of a series for USA Today. Do you have an HR or work-related question you’d like him... Read more »
U.S. employers added 390,000 new jobs in May, possibly indicating the beginning of a slowdown in job creation, according to the latest employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Over the past year,... Read more »
