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A Shifting Landscape of Workplace Challenges

EverFi - HR

As organizations review and re-review their remote work, health and safety, and diversity and inclusion policies and practices, navigating the complex legal landscape related to accommodations, harassment, and discrimination–all while supporting a positive workplace culture–is crucial. Employee mental health.

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How the Age Discrimination in Employment Act Protects Older Employees

HR Digest

The Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), established in 1967, serves as a crucial safeguard against workplace inequality, explicitly prohibiting age discrimination against individuals who are 40 years of age or older.

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HRCI Changes Requirements for PHR, SPHR Recertification Starting 2021

UpstartHR

For instance, in 2018 the exam body of knowledge changed the most it had since I got my PHR back in 2009. CPAs must get ethics training every cycle to maintain their certification as well. Every so often HRCI, the Human Resources Certification Institute, changes the requirements for its exams. New HR Certification Ethics Requirement.

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How to Encourage Employees to Report Issues

HR Shelf

A study by California Law Review revealed that 82% of whistleblowers had to suffer harassment, about 60% had their jobs taken away, and about 17% lost their homes. Discrimination and harassment: When employees are mistreated due to their gender, race, nationality, religion, age, or disability. Read on to understand. .

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Age Discrimination in the Workplace

Paycor

If so, your company could be headed to the courtroom to defend itself against an age discrimination lawsuit. In 1967, President Lyndon Johnson passed the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA), which is designed to protect job candidates and employees 40 and up from age discrimination in the workplace. Firing and layoffs.

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Forced Pagan Ritual Ends in Discrimination Lawsuit for Virginia Employer

HR Daily Advisor

District Court in Norfolk, Virginia, drives this point home—and reminds employers to train managers and supervisors on discrimination and sexual harassment in order to avoid these types of lawsuits in the future. A recent lawsuit filed in the U.S. VeraPetruk / iStock / Getty Images Plus. Then, in August 2016, things got weird.

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EEOC Issues Guidance on Retaliation

HRWatchdog

Federal and state law both prohibit employers from taking adverse action against employees or job applicants who assert their right to be free from discrimination and harassment in the workplace. Charges of retaliation surpassed race discrimination in 2009 as the most frequently alleged basis of discrimination, accounting for 44.5