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How the Employee Relations Job Function is Changing: A Look at the HR Acuity Benchmark Study

Evil HR Lady

Just what does the employee relations department do all day? This is the type of question that if you ask an ER person directly, it may result in a pointed glare or perhaps weeping as the employee relations expert sinks into a chair. It’s been a rough few months. As I said, it’s been a bit rough.

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Why Corporate Transparency is a Win-Win for Business, Consumers, Top Talent

Visier

Now, workers are disrupting entire industries, and businesses that refuse to meet new employee-related demands are worse off for it. Nike, for one, leaned into calls for racial justice by featuring Colin Kaepernick in a 2018 ad. Demands for corporate transparency at all-time high.

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#MeToo and the Workplace: HR and Sexual Harassment Policy

LaborSoft

In the wake of the #MeToo movement, HR and employee relations managers were sent scrambling. sexual harassment and/or discrimination has always been under the purview of HR, it has become a necessity for HR departments to not only tighten up or edify. #MeToo and the Workplace. Caring is Sharing.

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September’s Webinar Specifically for California Supervisors

HRWatchdog

That’s because the responsibility of managing employee relations most often falls on California supervisors to enforce HR policies, address employee grievances appropriately and honor accommodations. Disciplining or terminating an employee. Date: Thursday, September 20, 2018. Time: 10 a.m. –

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Rise Above the Status Quo: An Executive Summary

Paycor

In fact, Pugh explained some of the new handbook regulations resulting from a 2018 Boeing court decision as well as what multi-state employers should look out for— check out the details here. It is not discrimination—but be careful because it can be. Plans must not discriminate or be in favor of key/highly compensated employees.

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3 Steps to Protect Information While Leveraging Social Media

HR Daily Advisor

He also warned that social media use by employees may result unexpected liabilities such as the loss of intellectual property and trade secrets, claims of defamation, security breaches, privacy issues, and discrimination or harassment complaints. Learn more about HR Comply 2018 , being held in Las Vegas next November.

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GDPR and Security Measures to Safeguard HR Information

LaborSoft

As an HR professional , there are a myriad of daily challenges in maintaining the integrity and confidentiality of employee data and information. This reality has been compounded by the recent rollout of the GDPR, or General Data Protection Regulation, a privacy law that took effect in the European Union on May 25, 2018.