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How Tech Companies Can Navigate “The Great Resignation”

Sterling Check

In 2020, people spent an average of two hours and 25 minutes on social media each day — up from just 90 minutes a day as recently as 2012. Social media is part of everyday life for most people. Yet just 30% of employers leverage social media to learn more about job candidates. Work with a Screening Partner You Trust.

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How to Handle Holiday Vacation Requests

Insperity

Pledge to be better prepared in 2012. This will ensure that no one feels slighted or discriminated against. Ideally you should have a year-long vacation plan in place to ensure that your office is sufficiently staffed and employees can take their paid time off when they would like. Communicate.

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The state of inclusion this National Disability Employment Awareness Month, and what’s needed next

HR Brew

The current unemployment rate of disabled workers is 7.2%, a record low since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started tracking the figure in 2009 and down from a high of 15% in 2012, according to the Center for American Progress. Disability representation and inclusion.

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What You Need to Know About Marijuana

InfoMart

In 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize recreational marijuana. In the states that have passed anti-discrimination laws, courts have ruled that the states have the final say on the matter. Should you make allowances for medical marijuana? What about recreational marijuana? Recreational marijuana.

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US Foods and OFCCP Settle Hiring Discrimination Claims

Berkshire Associates

has entered into a conciliation agreement with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) to settle allegations of hiring discrimination at the foodservice distributors’ Wixom, Michigan facility. According to the conciliation agreement, OFCCP alleges that from January 2011 through December 2012 US Foods, Inc.

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South Africa attempts Compliance, Cracks Down on Illegal Employment

Global People Strategist

The report, which summarized research conducted by the Johannesburg-based higher education institution between 2012 and 2014, established that many of the employed undocumented foreigners are hired to do menial tasks. On the other, they are violating the labor rights of foreign employees by discriminating against them.

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Is Silicon Valley Evolving on Issues of Pay Equity?

Trusaic

Pinterest recently settled a gender discrimination lawsuit with its former chief operating officer for $22.5 In the past, tech companies have typically fought back, such as when the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers disputed a suit brought by one of its former investors, Ellen Pao, in 2012.” million dollars.