Companies are preparing to kick off open enrollment for their employees to choose their workplace benefits. Health, vision, dental, life insurance … even pet insurance may be up for grabs. How can HR... Read more »
?Workforce planning has long involved using spreadsheets to create an accurate employee headcount based on projected financial metrics. While such planning remains essential for HR and talent leaders, many are finding they... Read more »
Open enrollment this fall for 2023 employee benefits is an opportunity for organizations to showcase the value of the benefits packages they provide to employees—and to help stem high turnover rates. If... Read more »
The COVID-19 pandemic has contributed to an increase in cancer cases nationwide. Learn which demographics are at increased risk of being diagnosed and what employers can… Read more »
A New England-area McDonald’s franchisee must pay $1.6 million in damages for failing to protect workers from a manager who sexually harassed them over several years at… Read more »
The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) has written to congressional sponsors of legislation that would exclude the value of employer-provided child and dependent care benefits from an employee’s regular pay for... Read more »
?On June 28, Rhode Island Gov. Daniel McKee signed new tip protection legislation. The statute prohibits employers of tipped employees from retaining tips, creates new requirements for tip pools, and sets requirements... Read more »
On June 2, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz signed House File (H.F.) 4065 into law, a measure that provides legal clarity regarding hemp-derived consumables stemming from the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018, also... Read more »
?In a decision that may be useful to employers drafting severance and litigation settlement agreements in New Jersey, a panel of the New Jersey Appellate Division found that provisions requiring parties to... 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 him... Read more »
