?Jessica Dueñas was determined to keep her secret. In 2019, Dueñas was a special education teacher at a middle school in Louisville, Ky., who had just been named the Kentucky Teacher of... 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 »
?Employees who want to switch from full-time to part-time status should be fully apprised of the implications for benefits and compensation—not to discourage them from switching but to ensure they’re making an informed... Read more »
?The U.S. Department of Commerce announced April 11 a request for public comment to determine how regulators can help make artificial intelligence systems trustworthy. Comments are due to the Commerce Department’s National... Read more »
?The recently held 2023 Enterprise Connect conference featured the latest systems, software, services and applications in communications, collaboration and customer experience among large companies. Executives from Microsoft, Cisco, RingCentral, Google, Zoom, Vonage,... Read more »
?Human resource executives plan just a 1.8 percent increase in IT spending in 2023, down from 8.7 percent in 2022, according to The Hackett Group’s HR Key Issues report. The reduction in... Read more »
?An ongoing lawsuit in federal district court is challenging whether the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) can apply a salary requirement for workers who are exempt from overtime. The DOL defended its... Read more »
?Employers in British Columbia play an important role in educating employees about both the decriminalization of illegal drugs, including opioids, and the fact that they will not tolerate possession in the workplace,... Read more »
?The California Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board (Cal/OSHA Standards Board) recently published the official draft version of an indoor heat illness prevention standard. There are already heat illness regulations... Read more »
?States reported that 239,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending April 8, an increase of 11,000 from last week and the highest number since January 2022. About 1.81... Read more »
