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The Aging Workforce: Succession Planning and Retention

HR Daily Advisor

Succession planning presents another age discrimination risk. The report points to the need for employers to focus on retaining older workers and keeping them productive. Thirteen countries are expected to have ‘superaged’ populations—where more than one in five people is 65 or older—by 2020, up from just three in 2014.”

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Favoring one minority over another will still get you sued for discrimination

HR Morning

A Texas company will pay over $1 million to learn a lesson in the dynamics of hiring discrimination: You can’t avoid a bias lawsuit from one minority group by favoring another. . will pay $1,042,000 as part of the settlement of a class race and national origin discrimination lawsuit brought by the U.S. Lawler Foods, Inc.

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Deep Dive: 4 States with New Workplace Drug & Alcohol Laws

Cisive

It revises the law, clarifying that employers may not discriminate against off-duty, off-premises use of “lawful consumable products,” including cannabis. However, an employer may only enact and enforce written work rules prohibiting “cannabis flower and cannabis product use, possession, impairment, sale, or transfer, etc.,

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Deep Dive: 4 States with New Workplace Drug & Alcohol Laws

Precheck

26, 2023 Jessica McDonald Product Manager State lawmakers have been very busy tackling cannabis issues in 2023, and the year is not over. It revises the law, clarifying that employers may not discriminate against off-duty, off-premises use of “lawful consumable products,” including cannabis. Safety-sensitive position. (d)

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Protect Your Business: How to Avoid the Most Common Discrimination Charge

Insperity

In 2014, nearly 43 percent of all discrimination complaints filed nationwide with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission accused employers of retaliation. And according to the EEOC, the number of findings based on a retaliation claim is outpacing other types of discrimination. What is retaliation-based discrimination?

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The LGBTQ Wage Gap – Present and Rising

HR Digest

Nobody should be discriminated against on the basis of age, race, gender, sexual orientation, or disability. As per a study from 2014, another interesting finding was the pay disparity among genders ; gay men earned nearly 11% less than heterosexual men while lesbian women earned 9% more than heterosexual women.

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Why HR Should Be a Business Priority from Day One

Cornerstone On Demand

When you're running a startup, your focus is on the product, the funding and getting the right people on board. In 2014, The Atlantic estimated that more than half the employees at startups were under 30. You're probably not thinking about a handbook and employee policies—but you should be. Not just any HR—but good HR.