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From Marijuana To #MeToo—Top Employment Law Updates For 2019

PlanSource

We’re only a quarter through 2019 and employment law is already changing at a rapid pace, with an increasingly widespread commitment to greater pay equity, access to paid leave, and protection from harassment and discrimination. This salary level was set in 2004. Fair Labor Standards Act. What does this mean? Regular Rate.

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CalChamber to Host HR Boot Camps

HRWatchdog

Space is filling up fast for the one-day, topic-packed seminars focused on the employment life cycle, from hiring through termination, presented by the California Chamber of Commerce. Hiring, including Form I-9 verification and criminal background checks. Discrimination and harassment prevention. Presenters. Presenters.

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10 reasons your employees keep leaving, and what you can do to change their minds.

LifeSpeak

A lot of optimism and energy goes into growing a team, from sifting through applications and conducting interviews to onboarding, training, and coaching. Exit interviews are a great opportunity to learn what you can improve to attract and retain talent. The most dreaded phrase in HR is “I quit.” Exhaustion and poor work-life balance.

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An introduction to micro learning and the associated benefits

cipHR

Whether it’s compliance training, specialised skills development, or even behaviour-based learning, every organisation has training and development objectives. Speaking in a recent eLearning content webinar , David Marshall — founder of Marshall E-Learning Consultancy — told us: “When I started, I would create 90-minute courses.

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Price tag for training policy that led to sex discrimination in hiring: $3.1 million

HR Morning

A new lesson in hiring from the EEOC: You can’t get away with discriminating against a specific group of applicants by improperly structuring your training program. . million and will make job offers to women who were victims of the employer’s discriminatory hiring policy, the EEOC announced.

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Two tough lessons on training

HRExecutive

The cases involve two trucking companies that got in trouble over sexual harassment of female trainees. After a female trainee charged the company with sexual harassment and the EEOC sued, the company in 2004 adopted a new procedure: women trainees were paired only with female trainers. That company, Missouri-based Prime Inc.,

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Asia Argento: The Other Side of #MeToo

HR Daily Advisor

Argento denies these allegations, but the report has stirred an important conversation about avoiding a double standard when it comes to handling sexual harassment complaints where the accused is female and the accuser is male. Source: Cebas / iStock / Getty Images Plus.