Viewpoint: Quiet Quitting Is About Bad Bosses, Not Bad Employees

?Editor’s Note: SHRM has partnered with Harvard Business Review to bring you relevant articles on key HR topics and strategies. Every employee, every workday, makes a decision: Are they only willing to do the... Read more »

Using Skills Assessments Over Education, Experience Requirements

?A significant portion of HR professionals value skills-based hiring assessments, and some would weight them strongly as alternatives to traditional education and experience qualifications, according to research from the Society for Human... Read more »

SEC Requires Public Companies to Disclose Pay-versus-Performance Measures

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a long-awaited final rule that significantly expands executive pay disclosures by publicly traded U.S. companies. The new disclosures, which will provide detailed information... Read more »

Episode 367: A Head for Business and a Heart for People With Cindy Strong, VP of People for Outdoorsy

HR in beta has such a ring of truth. When I think about pre-COVID, there was such confidence in HR resources. You could, you can almost close your eyes and imagine, like... Read more »

Union Approval Rating Reaches Highest Point Since 1965

?Most people in the U.S.—71 percent—approve of labor unions, the highest approval rating recorded on this measure since 1965, according to a recent survey from Gallup. Nevertheless, most nonunion workers don’t want... Read more »

Uber Signs $8.4 Million Settlement Over Driver Misclassification

?Uber recently agreed to pay $8.4 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with California drivers who claimed they were misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees. The U.S. District Court in the... Read more »

California Passes Bill on Fast Food Employment Standards

?California lawmakers just passed the first bill in the nation that aims to enact specific workplace rules and standards for fast-food employees. The Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act, also known... Read more »

Court Upholds Policy Excluding Pregnant Workers from Light-Duty Work

?The U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin recently decided that employers can exclude pregnant workers from light-duty work if they have a nondiscriminatory reason for doing so. On Aug.... Read more »

How to Handle Employee Side Hustles

?When an information technology specialist at Enertech began missing deadlines and sleeping at his desk, it was the first time in her lengthy HR career that Jennifer Weber had to put an... Read more »

How to Chart a Path to the C-Suite

?Becoming a chief human resources officer (CHRO) or a chief people officer and joining a company’s C-suite is the goal of many rising HR professionals. It certainly is a great achievement to... Read more »