?In his State of the Union address last night, President Joe Biden urged the enactment of paid family and medical leave, immigration reform and police reform and called for an end to... Read more »
?In an effort to advance pay equity, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed the Temporary Workers’ Bill of Rights into law on Feb. 6. The bill’s “equal-pay-equal-benefit” provision requires that temporary workers... Read more »
?In December, I suggested ways to revise conventional so-called “progressive discipline.” In January, I followed up on the topic based on reader input. This month, I want to remake the performance review.... Read more »
?Vanessa Hinds, director at Protiviti, a business consulting firm based in Menlo Park, Calif., wanted to grow her ability to lead and manage and strengthen her networking approach and strategy. The CEO... Read more »
?Octavia Goredema, a Los Angeles-based author and career coach, provides tips to employers each year during Black History Month to equip them with the necessary tools to better support Black workers’ careers.... Read more »
?Caregiver is the fastest-growing employee group, with 73 percent of all employees having some type of current caregiving responsibility, according to a recent Harvard Business School study titled The Caring Company. Many... Read more »
Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh is expected to resign to become head of the National Hockey League (NHL) Players’ Association, according to news reports. When Walsh, former mayor of Boston, was selected... Read more »
?Takeaway: In order to trigger an employer’s Rehabilitation Act duties, an employee must identify their claimed disability and request a reasonable accommodation that is connected to the disability. ?An employer was justified... Read more »
?Takeaway: An employee’s disclosures about suspected violations of federal law may be protected under the California Whistleblower Protection Act even though they were made during the employee’s normal performance of his job... Read more »
?After several long weeks as the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) undertook a review of the proposal, the new Cal/OSHA COVID-19 regulation has been approved and is now officially in effect. The... Read more »
