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Employee Relationships is a Serious Employer Responsibility

HR Digest

The focus on employee welfare started post-World War II when retirement and pension plans appeared as the biggest forms of employer care. Many aspire to work at companies like Google, not just due to the pay they offer but because there seems to be no dearth of provisions for engaging employee and employer relationships.

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Laws And Regulations Every HR Professional Should Know In 2023

Empuls

HR departments must promptly revise company policies to reflect these changes and should also engage in comprehensive training programs to ensure that staff are educated about these shifts in policy. The role of Human Resources (HR) is becoming more complex and multifaceted. Changes in labor laws 1.

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Why Employers Should Lead the Way in Women’s Rights

Zenefits

As it turns out, another study showed that “companies with consistent, inclusive workplace cultures—especially as experienced by historically underrepresented groups—also outperformed the S&P 500 in average annual stock returns during the Great Recession (measured from 2006-2014).” These barriers continue to be broken in the workplace.

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Is Favoritism Derailing Your DEI Efforts?

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Tony Greenwald, a retired psychology professor at the University of Washington, and Thomas Pettigrew, a professor emeritus at the University of California at Santa Cruz, concluded from research results that favoritism — not overt hostile behavior from racists, homophobes, and other bigots — drives most claims of discrimination.

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Is Sexual Orientation Protected by Federal Law?

HR Daily Advisor

City of Providence , contributes to a widening division among federal courts about whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964—which prohibits employment discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, and national origin—covers discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The ruling, Franchina v.