Takeaway: During the interactive process, an employer must consider potential reasonable accommodations beyond what the employee proposes in order to fulfill its obligation to provide the employee with a reasonable accommodation. Notwithstanding... Read more »
Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with The Conversation to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Every year, employees worldwide enter annual performance reviews with mixed feelings. Do they approach these... Read more »
Your employees may be burning the proverbial midnight oil, putting in time beyond the normal workday, but that doesn’t mean they’re more productive, according to a new global survey. Forty percent of... Read more »
Under the California Wage Theft Protection Act (Cal. Labor Code section 2810.5), all employers are required to provide each employee with a written notice containing specified information at the time of hire,... Read more »
Congress passed a defense authorization bill on Dec. 14 that funds the military and foreign aid, including large raises for members of the armed forces. But the bill has new limits on... Read more »
Takeaway: An employee can go forward with his age bias claim in which evidence showed he was involuntarily moved into a new position that constituted a demotion, despite his employer’s claim that... Read more »
Daily headlines trumpet multimillion-dollar awards for employers’ violations of a variety of state and federal employment laws. Cases like these get lots of media attention—and they should. But equally deserving of attention... Read more »
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently signed into law Senate Bill 54, which requires venture capital firms to collect and report demographic information about the founding team members of the businesses in... Read more »
Takeaway: An employee who was fired after she requested two weeks off to recover from surgery was not disabled, and so her employer did not violate the California Fair Employment and Housing... Read more »
Remote work skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, becoming part of the new normal for many businesses. Although remote work was forced upon employers by a global health crisis, it allowed them to... Read more »