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When the same person does the hiring and firing, can there really be any discrimination?

The Employer Handbook

Image Credit: Pixabay.com ([link]. Consider this example: A supervisor hires someone who is over 40 years of age. Not long after, the same supervisor fires that same employee. What are the odds that age motivated the termination of employment? (Remember, that the supervisor voluntarily hired the same over-40 employee too.). This is called the same-actor inference and, when it applies, the plaintiff has a hecka-high (sorry, about the legal jargon) burden to overcome to demonstrate that his/her pr

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How to Run a Successful Active Benefits Enrollment

Winston Benefits

As employee benefits options continue to expand in number and complexity, we see more companies choosing to make open enrollment an active election. Unlike passive enrollment, which lets employees continue their same benefits elections from the previous year, active enrollment requires employees to evaluate all their plan options before selecting a benefits plan.

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Superhero Amputee Wrestles with Work Limits, Disability Harassment

HR Daily Advisor

One of the best reasons to watch Netflix is to get EntertainHR article ideas from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. There are so many to choose from, but the various miniseries based on the Defenders (Luke Cage, Jessica Jones, Daredevil and the Iron Fist) are the best. Of those miniseries, my favorite is Luke Cage (Mike Cotler), Harlem’s bulletproof super (anti?

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Your Weekly Dose of HR Technology: @Dice4Employers – New IntelliSearch Helps Uncover More IT Talent!

The Tim Sackett Project

Today on The Weekly Dose I review Dice’s new product offering IntelliSearch. I n telliSearch is a proprietary recommendation engine simplifies the complexity of candidate search by allowing recruiters to input a job description, the ideal resume, or a list of skills to return relevant matches. Boolean expertise is no longer required. IntelliSearch is super easy to use.

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The Rules Do Apply: Navigating HR Compliance

Speaker: Ann Meyers Piccirillo

HR Compliance is like a giant game of whack-a-mole. Once you think your company is compliant with all policies and procedures documented and in place, there’s a new or amended law, regulation, or final rule that pops up landing you back at ‘start.’ There are shifts, interpretations, and balancing acts to understanding compliance changes. Keeping up is not easy and it’s very time consuming.

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Office Hours: Culture Can Help Companies Handle Change Gracefully

Cornerstone On Demand

This post is part of our biweekly " Office Hours " video series, featuring quick career, workplace and leadership tips from talent management experts and business leaders across the globe. VUCA: It's not a rebel-elite clothing brand, nor is it the name of an obscure Cold War-era espionage program. It stands for 'volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous,' and according to business leaders around the globe, it describes our economic and political reality—a world in which a company's average ten

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Preparing Employees With the Skills They Need for the Future is All About Building a Culture of Learning

Cornerstone On Demand

Emerging technology like automation and advancements in data analytics will require vastly different future work skills. This change is already apparent with the rise of roles in fields like social media marketing and artificial intelligence —disciplines that hardly existed 10 years ago. But how do company leaders ensure employees have the future work skills they need to fill these continuously emerging (and ever-changing) roles?

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Moving The Onboarding Process Away from Spreadsheets

ExactHire

There are two types of people: those who love spreadsheets, and those who are hopelessly disorganized. Ok, perhaps that’s an over simplification, but I’ve yet to come across a highly organized person who doesn’t have a solid grasp–and a tinge of excitement–for creating and using spreadsheets. That being said, in some instances your favorite spreadsheet application, whether it be Sheets, Excel, Numbers, or something else, is being made obsolete by the emergence of new SaaS platf

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The future of recruiting: How you can hire exceptional employees

Workable

It’s a common phenomenon to see companies struggling to hire exceptional employees – in fact, 76% of hiring decision makers say attracting quality candidates is their biggest recruiting challenge. They may attribute this to a talent shortage, their company’s reputation or not knowing where to post jobs. But what if the problem lies with the way the recruiting process is archetypically designed?

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Workology Launches #HR & #Recruiting Reader Survey

Workology

Workology, formerly known as Blogging4Jobs began in 2005 and has been committed to providing resources for HR and workplace leaders who are tired of the status quo. With more than 8,000 publishes articles, podcasts, webinars, and videos we are focused on providing workplace practitioners with the information, knowledge, and support they need to be successful.

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Automate Your Onboarding Process In 7 Steps

Efficient employee onboarding is more than a warm welcome—it's a catalyst for business growth. Automated onboarding transforms new hires into productive team members faster, fostering long-term satisfaction and talent retention. For HR, automation means replacing inefficient manual processes with streamlined, cost-effective operations. Our eBook reveals how automating employee onboarding delivers these benefits, reducing HR challenges and elevating new employee readiness.

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4 Common Misconceptions About Co-Working

TalentCulture

When I first started working in the co-working industry more than 15 years ago, everyone who walked through our door had to be educated about what co-working actually was. From reassuring people that there was enough space for all to work comfortably to teaching them our community norms, I could see that even the early adopters were skeptical. The tables have turned since then.

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6 Strategies for Leaders Who Want to Flood Their Workplace With Great Ideas

Entrepreneur

Your perspective isn't the most important one in the room.

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Why Emailing Employees After Hours Hurts Company Culture | Bonfyre Breakdown

Bonfyre

Without firm rules for emailing employees after hours, you may be jeopardizing the health of your employees, their family, and the company’s culture. Researchers from Virginia Tech’s Pamplin College of Business recently published a study detailing the ways bad email protocol can be harmful to all the parties listed above. Today on the Bonfyre Breakdown, we’re taking a closer look at this study, as well as analysis from Maura Thomas, an international speaker and trainer, who has her own thoughts

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Pros and Cons of Hiring Full-time, Part-time and Freelance Employees

TalentLyft

What are the pros and cons of hiring full-time, part-time and freelance employees ? In this blog post, you will learn everything you need to know to make the most cost-effective business solution for your company. Read More.

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Modernizing Hiring: The Rise of Contingent Recruitment in 2024

The job market is changing fast, and to stay ahead, your hiring strategy needs to be flexible. With recent economic shifts, more companies are turning to contingent workers for their adaptability and cost savings. In fact, 32% of businesses are already prioritizing contingent over traditional full-time positions. Curious to learn more? In our new guide, you'll discover: The major benefits of incorporating contingent workers into your team.

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3 Simple Ways to Combat the Talent Shortage

TLNT: The Business of HR

If you’re experiencing a talent shortage, you’re not alone. Manpower’s 2018 Global Talent Shortage Report found that 45% of employers globally are struggling to fill positions. As difficult as that statistic suggests, it doesn’t mean you need to compromise and hire the wrong person for the job. Quite the contrary, there are a number of simple ways to combat talent shortages, whether you look to internal staff or tap into the freelance economy.

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3 Best Practices to Increase the ROI of Investing in People

Workology

There’s a lot to consider when determining if it’s worth it for your organization to invest in skills testing. It is expensive to screen and hire people that fit a position, but on the other hand, a lot of productivity and expense is lost with a bad hire. In HR, we already know that ROI, […] Source.

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What HR professionals need to know about Machine Learning

PandoLogic

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the hottest thing in hiring and recruitment right now. And while Machine Learning is not AI, it is a subset of AI that trains machines to learn by automatically applying complex mathematical calculations to Big Data to find patterns without human intervention. From there, predictive models can be built and refined automatically over.

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Automation and AI Will Require a Different Kind of Workforce

TLNT: The Business of HR

The future of the workplace is somewhat uncertain. Technological development is advancing at a phenomenal speed, leading to significant and in some cases, exponential change in working environments. Technological advancements that have captured the attention of many organizations are those relating to machine learning and artificial intelligence. This has led to a lot of questions about what workplaces of the future might look like.

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The Essential Performance Review Checklist

Performance reviews are a proactive way to engage with your employees, provide clear communication about expectations, and acknowledge them for their hard work. But getting the right framework and creating consistency across your organization can be tricky. We put together this checklist to help you evaluate your current performance review process and equip managers with the right tools to perform individual assessments.

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Building An Organizational Talent Pool To Support Your Succession Planning

TalentGuard

Building An Organizational Talent Pool To Support Your Succession Planning. Finding the right talent to fill business critical roles is becoming more difficult across all industries as unemployment rates hit record lows. To meet future skills needs, organizations are focusing on developing their internal talent through succession planning. One way to achieve this is to create an organizational talent pool which consists of your current employees with the potential to step into future roles.

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Who’s Better at Recruiting: The Introvert or Extrovert?

Ongig

The head of talent acquisition at a cloud software enterprise asked me the other day: “Who’s better at recruiting: the introvert or the extrovert?” Traditionally, most people have considered extroverts to be the best salespeople. And since recruiting is often just sales by a different name (especially in a candidate’s market), conventional wisdom is that extroverts make better salespeople.

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New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act Takes Effect October 29

HR Daily Advisor

New Jersey’s new Paid Sick Leave Act, which ensures employees get paid time off to care for their own or a family member’s illness or injury, is set to take effect on October 29. olm26250 / iStock / Getty Images Plus. The law requires all private and public New Jersey employers, regardless of size, to offer paid sick leave. In addition to expanding how paid sick leave can be used, the new law preempts the 13 New Jersey municipalities that have their own local paid sick leave ordinances.

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Reunited and Returned

NoExcusesHR

A question for you today.do you feel as if you've 'figured it all out?' I'm not being a smart you-know-what here. I'm actually curious if you feel that way. Honesty is the Best Policy To be honest with you, I kinda feel like I had it all figured out for a while. That turned out to be a pretty self-centered viewpoint. Think about it.with all of the challenges of work, our personal "stuff" that we carry.or have carried around with us.plus a world that seems to be so bitterly divided, how in the wo

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An HR Leaders Guide: 7 Questions To Ask When Developing Your Cancer Strategy

As HR and Benefits leaders are in the midst of evaluating cancer care solutions and designing their requirements for vendors, it’s key to know what questions to ask to ensure the development of a truly comprehensive strategy: from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Getting to the right answers starts with asking the right questions: How can better access improve engagement?

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Is a recognition gap wrecking your employee engagement?

Insperity

There’s a tendency to think that employee recognition is one-size-fits-all. But the truth is, what feels like recognition to one person may be meaningless to another. And with today’s workforce listing recognition as one of the top motivators in their job satisfaction, an employee recognition gap can be detrimental to the success of your business. In fact, in a recent study conducted by the Society for Human Resource Management, 91 percent of the respondents said recognition of their performance

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Accommodating Your Most Valuable Asset: Your Workforce

HR Daily Advisor

In part 1 of this article , we discussed how the fight for top talent is requiring employers to invest in keeping their current staff healthy and productive. Comprehensive disability management programs can be a key part of this approach—helping assess employees’ needs, connecting them with workplace resources, and providing accommodation recommendations to help them stay at work or return to work comfortably.

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It’s the Teams, Stupid!

HRExecutive

After five conferences, one HCM trend stands out. Not AI, not machine learning—teams, the present and Future of Work! In a little more than three weeks since Sept. 10, I attended five conferences: HR Tech (of course), SAP SuccessFactors’ SuccessConnect user conference, Infor’s Inforum user conference, ADP Analyst Day and Workday Rising, its annual customer event.

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update: my coworker asked me to pose topless for an “anatomy textbook”

Ask a Manager

Remember the letter-writer whose coworker asked her to pose topless for an “anatomy textbook” that didn’t exist? Here’s the update. I have to admit that I didn’t wait until I read your reply. I wrote the email to you on a night when both my boss and the coworker in question were not in the office, but my boss was in the next day, and I went in early and told her everything.

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AI & DEI: With Great Opportunities Comes Great HR Responsibility

Speaker: Jen Kirkwood - Partner, Responsible HR & AI at IBM and World Economic Forum Executive Fellow

The promise of AI for today’s organizations is real, yet in a frenzied state of experimentation, many stumble to get to a full-scale enterprise. As companies race to discover what generative AI can do, HR must lead conversations about how to balance cutting-edge innovations with integrity, trust, and diversity. Globally, organizations are at a critical intersection of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and AI acceleration.

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Kronos CEO Aron Ain Introduces WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work

Empower Software

Imagine a company where everyone loves to work. Where employees feel truly cared for, respected, and energized. Think of the impact this would have on recruitment, retention, customer satisfaction, innovation, and overall company performance. With WorkInspired: How to Build an Organization Where Everyone Loves to Work, published by McGraw-Hill, Kronos Incorporated CEO Aron Ain details the creation of Kronos’ award-winning corporate culture, setting out principles that managers and executives eve

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New California Employment Laws Expand Harassment Rules, Require Women On Boards

TLNT: The Business of HR

Seyfarth Synopsis: California Legislators sent Governor Jerry Brown 1,217 bills to consider in his final bill-signing period as Governor—more than any California governor has seen since 2004. The final tally : 1016 signed, 201 vetoed. Below is our full, final roundup of new laws that employers must comply with and the bills that fell to the Governor’s veto pen.

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People management: how to create a psychologically safe environment at work

HR Zone

Culture. Is your workplace psychologically safe?

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