Invisible Disabilities

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 »

Google Loses Gender Discrimination Trial

​A jury recently ordered Google to pay $1.15 million to a New York executive who claimed the company discriminated against her based on her gender, retaliated against her when she complained, and... Read more »

X Unlawfully Fired Worker Who Protested Return to Office, NLRB Says

​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 »

Developing a Habit of Delivering Frequent but Informal Feedback

​Lindsay is an HR director at an aerospace manufacturing and design company with 200 employees, and she’s concerned that her analytical, introverted management team may not be communicating enough with staff engineers... Read more »

X Unlawfully Fired Worker Who Protested Return to Work, NLRB Says

​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 »

Which Employees Receive the Lowest-Quality Feedback

​Women and employees of color receive the lowest-quality feedback from their managers during performance reviews and are leaving their organizations at the highest rates, according to a recent analysis of 13,000 performance... Read more »

Law Firms Sued Over Inclusion, Equity and Diversity Programs

​At least two large law firms have changed their inclusion, equity and diversity (IE&D) programs recently, after being sued by an anti-affirmative action group, the American Alliance for Equal Rights, founded by... Read more »

Performance Management Tools Should Go Beyond Measurement

​Technology has proven indispensable to improving performance management, by providing dashboards, analytics and an automated workflow.   But as important as metrics and measurement are to inform performance, people managers need to be... Read more »

California Establishes New Leave for Reproductive Loss

​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 »

California Employers Should Not Ask About Marijuana Use

​California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed a new law to prohibit employers from asking job applicants or employees about their prior marijuana use. California “employers need to make sure that they do... Read more »
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