?For convenience’s sake, it’s common for employees to occasionally send and receive personal messages on their work email. Many workers in the private sector access both personal and work email on their... Read more »
?The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has recently issued medical mismanagement claims to try to prove violations of the general duty clause of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).... Read more »
?The obligation under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) to provide reasonable accommodations for known limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions kicks in today. We’ve gathered articles on the... Read more »
?A new U.S. Supreme Court ruling makes it less burdensome for employers to compel arbitration. In a 5-4 decision on June 23, the Supreme Court ruled that a district court must stay... Read more »
?A U.S. Senate committee recently pushed ahead three bills that could impact union activity, paid sick leave and pay equity requirements for employers. On June 21, the Senate Health, Education, Labor and... Read more »
Takeaway: A hospital’s discharge of an administrative employee because she refused to get a flu vaccine was not disability bias, because the employee failed to show that she had a disability as... 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... Read more »
?As U.S. employers struggle to find workers with the competencies and skills they need, HR departments are beginning to adopt skills-based hiring practices, Mark Smith, SHRM’s director of HR thought leadership, told... Read more »
?In 2023, more than 10 percent, or 52, of the CEOs at Fortune 500 companies are women. While that represents an all-time high, there’s still a shortage of women at the highest... Read more »
?The Biden administration has postponed indefinitely its plans to raise the wages of professional foreign workers in the H-1B and employment-based green card categories, while reconfirming intentions to propose reforms to the... Read more »
