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Sexual Harassment: The Workplace’s Dirty Little Secret

HR Daily Advisor

Recent headlines have been littered with numerous stories of sexual harassment, gender discrimination, and rape. Sexual harassment text on cardboard. Sadly, sexual harassment is so pervasive that we sometimes don’t see it. Harvey Weinstein. Silicon Valley. Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes of Fox News.

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Top 10 Employee Experience Strategy Trends in December

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The Pew Research Center published a new report, “Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humans.” Some 979 technology innovators, business and policy leaders, researchers, and activists answered the question, “As AI continues to spread, will people be better off than they are today?” One-third of U.S.

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From Marijuana To #MeToo—Top Employment Law Updates For 2019

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We’re only a quarter through 2019 and employment law is already changing at a rapid pace, with an increasingly widespread commitment to greater pay equity, access to paid leave, and protection from harassment and discrimination. Fair Labor Standards Act. This salary level was set in 2004. What does this mean? Regular Rate.

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Avoid Restaurant Fails with These Essential HR Policies & Procedures

ConnecTeam

At first, the road to success was bumpy and not without challenges but your little hole in the wall restaurant managed to pull in regular clientele and grow. Instead, we’re going to focus on one of the most common challenges to growth in the restaurant industry: human resources. Great news! No one likes to be policed.

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3 Steps to Protect Information While Leveraging Social Media

HR Daily Advisor

Human resources concept on tablet with hologram. 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. Garrison , Esq.—partner

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How to Save Yourself from Social Media Disaster with an Employee App

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In 2014, American Apparel found themselves in a bit of a cyber-kerfuffle when their Tumblr account manager accidentally reblogged an image of the space shuttle Challenger exploding. Their claim was that the young Tumblr account manager was simply born after the Challenger disaster, so did not recognize the image.

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The Changing Role of HR in an AI World

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Stories about gender-based pay gaps, lack of diversity, and sexual harassment are front-page news around the world. When people find themselves using technology they find limiting, and that cuts off that constant social contact, it can lead to frustration and demands for companies to rethink workplace technology.