Amazon Faces Citations for Safety Violations at Three Locations

?Working conditions are unsafe for workers at three Amazon warehouses, according to the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The agency sent citations to the giant e-commerce corporation on Jan. 17,... Read more »

OSHA Expands Enforcement Against Serious Safety Violators

?Employers with severe workplace safety hazards may soon face a greater number of citations—and penalties. The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released new enforcement guidance on Jan. 26 that expands... Read more »

Benefits Trends to Watch in 2023: Cost Containment, Mental Health and More

?The past year has been a complicated one for employers trying to develop benefits strategies: Organizations have had to juggle the competing priorities of holding down costs while remaining competitive with their... Read more »

Security Protocols: Take Steps to Prevent Disclosure of Company Info

?The recent discovery of sensitive, classified documents on the property of President Joe Biden, former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence—material that is supposed to reside in the legal... Read more »

Rule Proposes Removing Moral Exemption to Contraception Mandate

Under a new proposed rule, fewer employers would be able to decline to provide employees health care coverage for birth control. The U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) and the... Read more »

Career Pathways Help Workers Become Nurses

?The Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that employment in health care occupations will grow by 16 percent from 2020 to 2030, adding 2.6 million new jobs. Meanwhile, HR executives in health care... Read more »

Keeping Remote Workers Safe in Natural Disasters

?On any given day, a blizzard, tornado, flood or other kind of disaster may bombard towns in the U.S. And on any given day, roughly one-fourth of Americans are working remotely.  Many... Read more »

Michigan Court Maintains Status Quo Regarding Paid Medical Leave

?On Jan. 26, in the long-awaited opinion in Mothering Justice v. Attorney General, a three-judge panel of the Michigan Court of Appeals ruled in a 3–0 opinion that the Michigan Paid Medical... Read more »

Report: Inflation, Labor Shortages Top HR Concerns in 2023

?Finding good job candidates and keeping employees will be the key priorities for organizations in 2023, according to a report the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) released Jan. 30. But the clash... Read more »

Quiz: How Do Marijuana Laws Affect the Workplace?

Quiz: How Do Marijuana Laws Affect the Workplace? Read more »
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