Employer that Failed to Pay Arbitration Fees on Time Could Not Compel Arbitration

?Takeaway: Under a 2019 amendment to the California Arbitration Act, an employer’s failure to pay arbitration fees within 30 days of their due date put it in material breach of its arbitration agreement... Read more »

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 »

Episode 1: How to Study for your HRCI and SHRM Exams

Learn the best ways to study for your SHRM or HRCI exams, including the APHR, PRHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP, and SHRM-SCP. The post Episode 1: How to Study for your HRCI and SHRM... Read more »

9 HR Jobs ChatGPT Says It Can Do

By now, most Human Resources professionals have heard about ChatGPT, a chatbot launched by OpenAI in November 2022. Recently, OpenAI announced that Microsoft was making a multi-year, multi-billion dollar investment in the... 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 »
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