How to Spot Suicidal Behaviors in the Workplace

?September is Suicide Prevention Awareness Month—an effort to destigmatize suicide, educate the public on the importance of mental health care and provide prevention resources to those who need them. For Robert Bogue,... Read more »

FLSA Administrative Exemption Requires Showing that Employees Meet the Criteria

?Takeaway: The classification of employees as exempt or nonexempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is one of the most complex and difficult issues in federal wage and hour law. When... Read more »

Whether Nonemergency Medical Transport Providers Were Employees Was Question for Jury

?Takeaway: In deciding whether workers are employees or independent contractors, a court must weigh a number of different factors. Ultimately, the determination is a fact-based one. If there is conflicting evidence, the... Read more »

Circuit Court Dismisses Lawsuit over 401(k) Fees

?The Seventh Circuit recently provided a ray of sunshine in what has largely been a gloomy stretch for plan sponsors and fiduciaries defending ERISA breach of fiduciary duty claims, based on allegedly... Read more »

Inflation Ticks Up, Real Wages Fall in August

The Consumer Price Index for all items rose 8.3 percent for the 12 months ending in July, a smaller amount than the 8.5-percent increase for the period ending in July or the... Read more »

Is It Time to Update Security Clearance Requirements?

SHRM has partnered with Security Management Magazine to bring you relevant articles on key workplace topics and strategies.? He may have been an original master of disguise. Benjamin Franklin Stringfellow was adept at changing... Read more »

How to Respond When an Employee Rejects Their Performance Review

?Performance reviews are used for a variety of purposes—merit increases, promotions, transfers and more. For those reasons, it makes sense that every employee wants to receive a satisfactory review. So what happens... Read more »

When You or Your Workers Make Mistakes—What to Do?

?Everyone makes mistakes, including managers. If you or someone who works for you makes a mistake, what should you do? The following are some ideas to stimulate your thinking. Recovering From Your... Read more »

How to Know if Your Workers Are Ghost Quitting

?Steadily and stealthily over the past several months, many of your workers have been “ghost quitting,” which means they aren’t leaving their jobs, but they’re mentally checking out.  Some of these workplace... Read more »

Combatting Age Bias in the Workplace

?Millions of older Americans have re-entered the workforce in recent months. In fact, nearly 64 percent of adults between the ages of 55 and 64 were working in April. Precipitous rises in... Read more »
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