In the past, when employees got a cough or cold, they would often push through and go into work anyway because they didn’t want to use up their sick days. But when... Read more »
Takeaway: Manipulating or falsifying evidence can result in severe penalties for an employee, including dismissal of claims and sanctions. An employee’s sexual harassment claims based on forged text messages were dismissed, and the... Read more »
Forget howling monsters or vampire attacks. More than half of U.S. job seekers are most spooked about being ghosted: that mysterious radio silence from a recruiter or hiring manager who had been... Read more »
More than 70,000 child care providers may shut their doors in the coming months, as funding from the federal American Rescue Plan Act has expired. Day care owners cite burnout and low... Read more »
Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Flexible work is having an impact on employee well-being, according to recent Gallup data. In... Read more »
Julia Beck’s career was thriving when she nearly lost her life. Thirty years ago, Beck was in her 20s and had just launched her first media consulting agency in McLean, Va. Her... Read more »
A jury recently ordered Google to pay $1.15 million to a New York executive who claimed the company discriminated against her based on her gender, retaliated against her when she complained, and... Read more »
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently charged the social media platform X, formerly Twitter, with illegally firing an employee who publicly opposed the company’s return-to-work mandate. X, based in San Francisco,... Read more »
Lindsay is an HR director at an aerospace manufacturing and design company with 200 employees, and she’s concerned that her analytical, introverted management team may not be communicating enough with staff engineers... Read more »