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Ensuring ADA Compliance in Hiring and Workplace Accommodations
Employment Law
Ensuring ADA Compliance in Hiring and Workplace Accommodations

The landscape of employment law can be as shifting and unpredictable as the individuals it seeks to protect. For employers, navigating these legal waters comes with the extraordinary responsibility to honor the diversity, dignity, and rights of potential and current employees. At the heart of this legal terrain is the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), providing critical protections for individuals

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How Can Recruiters Align Jobs with Candidates’ Values?
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How Can Recruiters Align Jobs with Candidates’ Values?

Recruiting has transcended the traditional practice of simply pairing candidates with job descriptions. In a rapidly evolving employment landscape, it is imperative that recruiters delve deeper, synergizing not just skill sets with roles, but also aligning individuals’ aspirations, values, and societal impacts with the ethos of businesses. It’s about fostering not just a workforce but a collective of individuals whose

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New Code to Combat ‘Fire and Rehire’ Tactics Post-Election
Employment Law
New Code to Combat ‘Fire and Rehire’ Tactics Post-Election

The employment landscape of the United Kingdom has been rife with tension following controversial employer strategies, particularly the ‘fire and rehire’ tactics now widely recognized for their contentious nature. This practice, dramatized by the P&O Ferries scandal in 2022, has led to an outcry for better protection of workers’ rights. In response, a new statutory code of practice is on

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How Can CSR Elevate Employee Engagement in Tough Times?
Talent-Management
How Can CSR Elevate Employee Engagement in Tough Times?

In the stormy sea of today’s economic challenges, a beacon of light for many employees is found in the initiatives their companies take towards corporate social responsibility (CSR). The concept of CSR has broadened significantly beyond mere community service – it’s about lifting morale, nourishing a shared sense of purpose, and fulfilling aspirations to make a positive societal impact. In

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HR Analytics: The Shift from Intuition to Data-Driven Science
Core HR
HR Analytics: The Shift from Intuition to Data-Driven Science

In a world where big data reigns supreme, Human Resources (HR) represents a domain that has pivoted from art to science, with its practices revamping from gut-feeling decisions to data-driven strategies. This seismic shift illuminates the burgeoning importance of HR analytics in the corporate sphere. The insights gleaned from systematic data analysis have amplified HR’s impact on talent management, heralding

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Navigating the Talent Acquisition Maze: Strategies for HR Success
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Navigating the Talent Acquisition Maze: Strategies for HR Success

The landscape of human resources is ever-evolving, a fact rendered especially true for the HR professionals anchoring small and medium-sized enterprises across the United States. Here, amidst the myriad of responsibilities, talent acquisition emerges as a particularly daunting labyrinth, now eclipsing even the critical task of employee retention. Armed with the latest insights from BambooHR’s State of HR Report 2024,

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How Can Companies Overcome Talent Attraction Hurdles?
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How Can Companies Overcome Talent Attraction Hurdles?

In an ever-evolving job market, companies face a myriad of challenges when it comes to sourcing and maintaining a pipeline of top-tier talent. While there’s no magic recipe for perfection in recruitment, understanding the stumbling blocks can pave the way for more effective hiring strategies. First and foremost, potential candidates now assess prospective employers just as critically as they themselves

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Skills-Based Hiring: A Catalyst for DEI in the Workplace
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Skills-Based Hiring: A Catalyst for DEI in the Workplace

In an era where diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are more than just buzzwords, skills-based hiring is revolutionizing how companies approach recruitment. This contemporary strategy sheds traditional biases by emphasizing a candidate’s unique capabilities and experience, thus fostering a more equitable and varied workforce. Embracing the Progressive Recruitment Approach Understanding Skills-Based Hiring Skills-based hiring upends conventional recruitment paradigms by prioritizing

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How Are Complex Hiring Practices Costing Aussie Retailers?
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How Are Complex Hiring Practices Costing Aussie Retailers?

In the dynamic landscape of the Australian job market, retail organizations are confronting a formidable challenge in their recruitment processes. At a time when the unemployment rate is steadfastly low at 4.1%, the competition for attracting top talent has never been fiercer. This intensifies the pressure on companies to refine their approach to hiring, as the traditional methods may no

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Business Groups Sue DOL Over Overtime Rule Changes
Employment Law
Business Groups Sue DOL Over Overtime Rule Changes

In what has turned into a significant legal showdown, a collective of business organizations has instituted a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) over recent amendments to the federal overtime rules. The coalition of plaintiffs includes powerhouses like the American Hotel and Lodging Association and the Associated Builders and Contractors, poised on the assertion that the updated regulation

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Starbucks Found to Violate Labor Laws in Union Dismissal Case
Employment Law
Starbucks Found to Violate Labor Laws in Union Dismissal Case

In a significant decision, a National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) administrative law judge found that coffee giant Starbucks violated federal labor laws. The incident involved the firing of an employee who had engaged in union organizing activities at one of Starbucks’ Michigan locations. The said employee was dismissed on the grounds of breaching the company’s “respectful communication” guidelines after a

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Rocket Mortgage Settles Overtime Pay Lawsuit for $3.5 Million
Employment Law
Rocket Mortgage Settles Overtime Pay Lawsuit for $3.5 Million

In a significant development for employee wage rights, Rocket Mortgage has agreed to a $3.5 million settlement in a case that accused the company of failing to properly compensate mortgage bankers for overtime work. The class-action lawsuit, filed in Arizona, represented a group of both current and former employees who claimed that their overtime pay calculations did not accurately include

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