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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

It may not be surprising that during 2020, social and political conflict —along with ongoing challenges due to COVID-19—helped position the employee relations (ER) function as a vital factor in shaping positive employee experiences. million employees globally, including 2.3 million employees in the U.S.

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Key Human Resources (HR) Pillars: Your 101 Guide

Analytics in HR

A department : The HR department manages all HR activities, including recruitment, onboarding, compensation, development, performance management, and employee relations. HR as the workforce : Human resources are essentially the employees of the organization. HR needs to stay abreast of new laws or changes to existing laws.

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Employers Beware: Discrimination Lawsuits Continue to Rise

SHRM Resources

New federal data shows that the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed 143 discrimination or harassment lawsuits in fiscal year 2023—a more than 50 percent increase over the filings from the previous year.

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Artificial Intelligence: What HR Pros Can Do to Prepare For the Future

HR Bartender

Let’s replace the hours of work that don’t move the needle with hours of work that can truly improve employee retention and workplace culture. Automate mundane and repetitive tasks Data reporting and analysis – dashboards and data summaries – in today’s data driven environment, pivot tables and Excel tools may fall short.

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How to hone managerial ethics in employee relations

Business Management Daily

As a “corporate ethics statement,” it was obliged to address ethical working conditions and, as such, included details surrounding discrimination, harassment and retaliation, which clearly impacted HR departments around the nation. The post How to hone managerial ethics in employee relations appeared first on Business Management Daily.

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Outsourcing HR Functions: Is it Worthwhile?

Hppy

Below are HR functions that should be outsourced. Employee relations – The HR department should ensure that your business complies with all labor laws. Security threat – Your business risks breaching confidentiality if the outsourced company gets access to your employees’ medical records and other personal details.

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AI: Discriminatory Data In, Discrimination Out

SHRM Resources

Artificial intelligence (AI), increasingly used in recruiting, might inadvertently discriminate against women and minorities if the data fed into it is flawed.