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Paid Parental Leave Does Not Replace Workplace Flexibility

What's the best approach to take on parental leave benefits when it comes to recruiting and retaining existing, new or expectant parents? Is it all about paid leave? Or should the focus be on work-life balance? Or maybe a little from column 'A'...

Published 16 May 2013 1:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, recruitment, employee relations, usa, flexible working, hr policy and strategy, absence management, business practices, sick leave, FMLA, telecommuting, parental leave, teleworking, paid leave, PTO
How to be an HR Superhero

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE Faster than a speeding stenographer. More powerful than aromas from the cafeteria microwave. Able to solve employee problems in a single day. Look over in that cubicle! It's a salesman! It's an administrator...

Published 14 May 2013 1:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, usa, hr policy and strategy, business practices, HR 2.0, hr roles and responsibilities, employee communications, risk management, record keeping
Rutgers Scandal Shows Employers Must Not Drop the Ball

The recent firing of Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice , but only after a video surfaced of him physically hitting players and hurling repeated homophobic epithets at them, is a virtual primer of what NOT to do from an employment law perspective...

Published 15 Apr 2013 2:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal opportunities, employee rights, health and safety, harassment, employee relations, usa, business practices, safety, bullying, background checks, security, employer liability, violence
Easter, Passover, Hot Dogs & Veganism: Accommodating Religion in the Workplace

Are the hot dogs all beef? Does the rice and beans have ham in it? Is there pork in that egg roll? These are some questions I often find myself asking before taking a bite. My husband makes fun of me and tells me I am hypocritical because I absolutely...

Published 27 Mar 2013 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: equal opportunities, employee rights, employee relations, usa, discrimination, religion, hr policy and strategy, absence management, business practices, interactive process, religious accommodation, Title VII
HR Fly on the Wall: Workers' Compensation Preliminary Hearing, Part 3

In Part One of this series, the HR Fly listened in on the beginning of a workers' compensation preliminary hearing, as the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) started the hearing, set the parameters and questioned the employment attorney as to the employer's...

Published 28 Feb 2013 12:30 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: health and safety, hr policy and strategy, business practices, hr roles and responsibilities, insurance, employee communications, workers' compensation
HR Fly on the Wall: Workers' Compensation Preliminary Hearing, Part 2

Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE In Part One of this series, the HR Fly listened in on the beginning of a workers' compensation preliminary hearing, as the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) started the hearing, set the parameters and questioned...

Published 27 Feb 2013 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: health and safety, hr policy and strategy, business practices, hr roles and responsibilities, insurance, employee communications, workers' compensation
HR Fly on the Wall: Workers' Compensation Preliminary Hearing

Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE As an HR professional, you know how important it is to have an open dialogue with employees, supervisors and attorneys in your legal department. What you don't know, however, is what types of conversations...

Published 26 Feb 2013 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: health and safety, hr policy and strategy, business practices, hr roles and responsibilities, insurance, employee communications, workers' compensation
The Next Day: A Post-Apocalyptic HR Manifesto

For those faithful believers of the Mayan apocalyptic prophesy , the arrival of 2013 might seem a bit...anticlimactic. The world didn't end despite their passionate insistence it would. Whoops. But for those of us who were rooting against a giant...

Published 15 Jan 2013 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, training and development, hr policy and strategy, business practices, communication, performance management, morale and motivation, HR 2.0, HR strategy, employee wellbeing, employee handbooks, investigations
Down the Shore Everything WILL be All Right

As a born and raised jersey girl when I first saw the devastation of Hurricane Sandy I could barely breathe. I immediately felt a need to get in my car and take that parkway south drive to the jersey shore - a ride I have done countless times since I...

Published 19 Dec 2012 9:00 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, employee rights, stress, health and safety, employee relations, usa, hr policy and strategy, absence management, business practices, employee engagement, communication, internal communications, bereavement, sickness absence, perceptions of hr, human resources, corporate culture, ADA, crisis, disaster services leave, EAP, emergency procedures, FMLA, leave donations, natural disaster, reasonable accommodations
The Strange Case of HR and the Electronically Stored Information: Part Three - HR Guidance

In Part One of this series, we discussed electronically stored information (ESI), the changing technological landscape, new discovery rules encompassing all ESI and what that means for HR in general terms. In Part Two of this series, we reviewed two recent...

Published 3 Dec 2012 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, usa, hr policy and strategy, business practices, communication, hr policy, email, HR 2.0, HR strategy, hr wisdom, Evidence based HR, HR and social media, hr technology, litigation
The Strange Case of HR and the Electronically Stored Information: Part Two - Case Studies

In Part One of this series, we discussed electronically stored information (ESI), the changing technological landscape, new discovery rules encompassing all ESI and what that means for HR in general terms. In this segment, we'll review two cases where...

Published 26 Nov 2012 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, usa, hr policy and strategy, business practices, communication, hr policy, email, HR 2.0, HR strategy, hr wisdom, Evidence based HR, HR and social media, hr technology, litigation
The Strange Case of HR and the Electronically Stored Information

Why is it so important that HR take electronically stored information (ESI) seriously? Elementary, my dear HR professional. Read More...

Published 20 Nov 2012 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, hr policy and strategy, business practices, communication, hr policy, email, HR 2.0, HR strategy, hr wisdom, Evidence based HR, HR and social media, hr technology, litigation
Keeping the Holiday Cheer by Reducing the Risk of Employee Theft

Holiday shopping: it can be stressful, expensive, and downright awful. The lines are longer, patience is thinner, and wallets are lighter. What is supposed to be the time of year for Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or [Fill in Your Holiday/Vacation Away...

Published 19 Nov 2012 12:00 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: employee relations, usa, theft, business practices
Top 10 HR questions - September 2012

FAQs on two current developments in employment law feature strongly in the most popular employers' questions in September. The top ten FAQs on XpertHR include questions on pensions auto-enrolment, which comes into force for the largest employers today...

Published 1 Oct 2012 4:15 PM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: pay and benefits, business practices, faqs, vetting, pensions auto-enrolment
Agency Workers Regs having mixed impact on employers

The latest XpertHR research finds two-thirds of employers reporting no change in their use of agencies to find temporary staff since the introduction of the Agency Workers Regulations in October 2011, although the use of agencies has fallen in more than...

Published 16 Apr 2012 11:10 AM by XpertHR - Employment Intelligence

Filed under: recruitment, terms and conditions, employee relations, hr policy and strategy, business practices, agency workers, Agency Workers Regulations 2010

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Paid Parental Leave Does Not Replace Workplace Flexibility

How to be an HR Superhero

Rutgers Scandal Shows Employers Must Not Drop the Ball

Easter, Passover, Hot Dogs & Veganism: Accommodating Religion in the Workplace

HR Fly on the Wall: Workers' Compensation Preliminary Hearing, Part 3

HR Fly on the Wall: Workers' Compensation Preliminary Hearing, Part 2

HR Fly on the Wall: Workers' Compensation Preliminary Hearing

The Next Day: A Post-Apocalyptic HR Manifesto

Down the Shore Everything WILL be All Right

The Strange Case of HR and the Electronically Stored Information: Part Three - HR Guidance

The Strange Case of HR and the Electronically Stored Information: Part Two - Case Studies

The Strange Case of HR and the Electronically Stored Information

Keeping the Holiday Cheer by Reducing the Risk of Employee Theft

Top 10 HR questions - September 2012

Agency Workers Regs having mixed impact on employers