Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Managers and organizational leaders are currently exploring the best ways to conduct... Read more »
Menopause benefits—such as virtual care support and hormone therapy support—are a small but growing workplace trend. Companies including Microsoft, Abercrombie & Fitch Co. and pharmaceutical firm Sanofi are among the roughly 4... Read more »
Takeaway: A university employee who was injured while riding her bike on campus on her way home from work was limited to worker’s compensation remedies under the under the “premises line” rule,... Read more »
States reported that 217,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Nov. 4, an decrease of 3,000 from last week’s revised level. Unemployment claims remain at the low end of their... Read more »
Second-chance hiring advocates argue that the fear of being accused of negligent hiring—one of the main reasons given for not hiring people with criminal histories—is overblown. A recent report by the Legal... Read more »
A nurse recently lost her racial discrimination and retaliation case against a medical center in Huntsville, Ala., which claimed she was legally fired for unprofessional conduct. On Oct. 27, the 11th U.S.... Read more »
If an employee resigns, then rescinds the request, the employer has a choice: Do they want the worker to stay or go? If the employer determines they want the employee to stay,... Read more »
A former Texas state trooper recently won a $2.4 million verdict in his lawsuit alleging the Texas Highway Patrol failed to accommodate a disability he sustained during military service. On Sept. 29,... Read more »
With the proliferation of remote work, employers are increasingly encountering situations where employees have taken on a distracting side hustle—or even a second full-time job. While employers have typically allowed or tolerated... Read more »
Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with The Conversation to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. When people work for discriminatory managers, they put in less effort. That’s true both when... Read more »