?The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) permits fitness-for-duty examinations of employees only if they are job-related and consistent with business necessity. Objective evidence is needed to make this showing. Here is an... Read more »
?U.S. employers added 236,000 new jobs in March, holding to expectations, and the unemployment rate dipped to 3.5 percent, according to the latest employment report from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. The... 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 »
?Employers looking to recruit and retain interns from historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) and predominantly Black institutions (PBIs) would be well served by forging relationships with these schools, according to a... Read more »
?The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) updated its website April 6 to announce that enforcement of the impending law regulating the use of automation and artificial intelligence... Read more »
?When employment attorney Natalie Groot experienced two miscarriages over the span of six months a couple years ago, she was devastated—but returned to work almost immediately both times. While she felt supported... Read more »
?With the increasing popularity of schedule flexibility, some employers are choosing an option that strikes a balance between the regular five-day workweek and the four-day workweek: granting workers every other Friday off.... Read more »
Workology Podcast 4th episode featuring excerpts from the best interviews of the CHRO series talking about how they began their careers. The post Episode 393: CHRO Series – How Did You Start... Read more »
?The case of Department for Transport v. Sparks is a helpful reminder that just because a provision is contained in a policy in the U.K., rather than the contract of employment itself, does not... Read more »
?As of March 6, all medical certificates—more commonly known as sick leave certificates or sick notes—issued by Hong Kong’s Hospital Authority (HA) have a digital signature instead of a traditional manual signature... Read more »
