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4 Ways HR Analytics Can Improve Workplace Diversity

Cornerstone On Demand

There are multiple studies showing that diversity improves organizational bottom lines: McKinsey quarterly reported that between 2008 and 2010, companies with more diverse teams were top financial performers, and according to a study by Lu Hong and Scott E. Eliminating Workforce Discrimination with Big Data.

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The Unknown Cost of Conflict in the Workplace

Pollack Peacebuilding

While the study is from 2008 and costs may have changed since, the results are staggering. Conflict tends to cloud the room and add to stress that may already be present. Harassment, as well as other issues that arise from conflict within an organization, can lead to legal action being taken. found that U.S. employees spend 2.8

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Case for Consistency: Treatment of Manager Prevents Dismissal of Age Bias Claim

HR Daily Advisor

A New Jersey federal court recently declined to dismiss an age discrimination lawsuit because an employer’s failure to discipline employees in a consistent manner could be construed as evidence of discrimination. Bruce filed a lawsuit against GNC alleging age discrimination under the New Jersey Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD).

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Your employee uses medical marijuana. Her drug test is positive. But, how do you know if she was high at work?

The Employer Handbook

For purposes of today’s post, I want to focus your attention on the anti-discrimination provision of the AMMA. The defendant-employer hired the plaintiff-employee in 2008, two years before the AMMA passed. Well, scratch that. File the stuff that I underlined away for a bit. We’ll get back to it shortly. So, tell us.

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Most Important Developments for 6/12

GetFive

Unlike other crises, such as 9/11 or the Great Recession in 2008, COVID’s crucible is the fight against an invisible and insidious enemy, a pathogen that promises to wax and wane for an indeterminate time. It can be immensely helpful to know that the anxious brain is reasonably well understood. All this makes all of us anxious.

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Does Mine Supervisor with Bad Back Have Disability Bias Claim?

HR Daily Advisor

Terminated employees who sue often file claims for unlawful discrimination and breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing. Recently, the Alaska Supreme Court analyzed how a claim for breach of the covenant of good faith and fair dealing relates to a disability discrimination claim. Bad Backs Don’t Do Well in Mines.

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ADA: Court Rules that Deceased Employee’s Estate May Sue for Compensatory Damages

HR Daily Advisor

8th Circuit Court of Appeals—which covers Arkansas, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, and South Dakota—recently reversed an Arkansas district court’s dismissal of a discrimination claim brought under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) by a deceased employee’s estate. Background. John Guenther, Jr.,