According to a recent study, 97% of executives expect to see increased competition for talent over the next 12 months. That’s the view shared by thousands of business executives who responded to business consultant Mercer’s 2019 Global Talent Trends Study. And, the study found, more than half of executives from high-growth companies – 52% – […]
Posted on October 6th, 2019 by admin
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As the HR profession evolves, it continues finding innovative ways of tackling traditional problems. Unfortunately in some areas, such as Performance Management, we open our toolkit and pull out the same old solutions. For many years HR has been trapped stuck on a hamster wheel of annual reviews supported by one-to-one check-ins and coaching sessions […]
Posted on October 5th, 2019 by admin
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Having trouble hiring? Who isn’t, with the tight job market, being ghosted by candidates and just the complete overhaul in the hiring process the last several years? And now there’s a new hiring practice: Job interviews by texting. If you adhere to certain guidelines, interviews by texting can be a really useful, and convenient, tool […]
Posted on October 4th, 2019 by admin
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Bank of America has agreed to pay $4.2 million after the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs reportedly found evidence of hiring discrimination practices in past years, according to published reports. The OFCCP alleged that African Americans, Hispanics and women were discriminated against when applying for phone representative, client service, mortgage underwriter, […]
Posted on October 3rd, 2019 by admin
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Faced with rising costs and continuing struggles to engage employees with their benefits, U.S. employers are redesigning their benefit strategy to better meet employee needs, according to a new survey by Willis Towers Watson. The survey found employers are looking to place greater emphasis on employee wellness, broader benefit packages and use of new technologies […]
Posted on October 2nd, 2019 by admin
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Employer-provided health insurance coverage for the average American family now costs as much as a small car – $20,000 – every year. That’s the finding of a just released study by the Kaiser Family Foundation nonprofit health research group. The foundation’s annual survey of employer-provided health insurance plans found that employees, on average, pay about […]
Posted on September 28th, 2019 by admin
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The Department of Labor has released the final rule that will require businesses to pay overtime wages to employees who work more than 40 hours a week. It’s a win for the estimated 1.3 million workers who will now be compensated for putting in long hours — but it’s a bitter defeat for the 2.8 […]
Posted on September 26th, 2019 by admin
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Businesses have historically been more concerned with customer experience than their own employees’ experience, but this is beginning to change. And it’s about time! According to a 2018 Gallup survey, only 15% of employees are engaged at work worldwide. This is astounding — and costly too. An earlier Gallup poll predicted that actively disengaged employees […]
Posted on September 25th, 2019 by admin
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Employee engagement is one of the biggest challenges in talent management. But meeting that challenge is worth it. Keep your best workers engaged and you’ll keep them working for you. In this period of low unemployment, top workers are leaving every day for new opportunities. And your competitors are doing their best to get more […]
Posted on September 24th, 2019 by admin
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Most employers know that it’s illegal to discriminate against pregnant employees — which makes it all the more shocking that it was one company’s policy to do so. The EEOC recently filed a lawsuit against A Plus Care Solutions, a supplier of professional caregivers in Jackson, TN, for violating the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA). The […]
Posted on September 21st, 2019 by admin
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