Maryland Expands Employer Obligations to Accommodate Applicants with Disabilities

Effective Oct. 1, Maryland employers are obligated to reasonably accommodate not only the disabilities of employees, but also the disabilities of applicants. Until the new legislation was passed, Maryland’s disability discrimination law... Read more »

Episode 374: Digital Equity at Work and in Life With Bill Curtis-Davidson and Chris Wood

But we’ve done a lot of work at PEAT in immersive technologies like virtual reality, that are offering new ways for employees to connect, communicate, and collaborate. They’re also providing ways for... Read more »

Private-Sector Wages and Salaries Rose 5.2% Year Over Year in 3rd Quarter

Labor compensation costs in the U.S. for private sector workers—including pay and benefits—jumped 5.2 percent year over year through September 2022, up from a 4.1 percent increase a year earlier but down... Read more »

Employers Consider HRA-Based Alternatives to Group Health Plans

Newer models of health reimbursement arrangements (HRAs), such as the qualified small employer HRA (QSEHRA), established in 2017, and the individual coverage HRA (ICHRA), established in 2020, continue to generate interest as... Read more »

Ask HR: How to Prevent Halloween Horrors at Work

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 »

How to Put an Effective Active Shooter-Response Plan into Practice

?SHRM has partnered with Security Management Magazine to bring you relevant articles on key workplace topics and strategies. Organizational stakeholders must invest more time and effort into gaining better insight into the... Read more »

Viewpoint: How to Attract Top Tech Talent

?Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Companies are having a tough time finding, hiring and keeping the top technical talent... Read more »

Heidi Hartman: A ‘Yes, and’ Approach to HR Leadership

The following transcript is provided unedited. Heidi Hartman: Well, I think HR gets the label of the no police quite a bit. And I really tried to lead from a place of... Read more »

Bullying Cases Rise in UK

?The number of cases heard by an employment tribunal involving allegations of workplace bullying had increased 44 percent over the 12 months preceding March 2022, according to a July report by the... Read more »

When Is an Immediate Firing Justified?

?Grounds for immediate dismal vary from company to company—violations of certain policies can lead to an employee’s quick exit. “Violations of anti-discrimination, anti-harassment and anti-retaliation policies may justify immediate termination,” following an... Read more »
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