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Election year HR strategies: Preparing for changes to employment laws

HRExecutive

approaches the pivotal 2024 presidential election, the potential for significant shifts in labor and employment laws looms large. Election years are a time of heightened uncertainty for employers, as changes in government policy affecting businesses can dramatically reshape the regulatory landscape. As the U.S.

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What is Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO)?

Heyyy HR!

Other key milestones include: 1978: The EEOC gained the power to enforce the Age Discrimination in Employment Act 1991: The Civil Rights Act of 1991 allowed for damages in discrimination cases 2009: The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act made it easier to file pay discrimination claims These changes helped the EEOC better protect workers’ rights.

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What to Expect for HR Compliance in 2018

ClearCompany HRM

Also be on the lookout for a federal increase in the minimum wage in 2018 since we haven’t seen an increase since 2009. Find out from @ClearCompany: Employers should always keep a close eye on the reaction of the states to the administration’s federal employment law decisions. ClearCompany.

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Stock Options Are Not “Wages” in California

HRWatchdog

Around the same time, Shah forwarded an email containing confidential business information from his work account to his personal email account. When Skillz investigated, it learned about the confidential information email and, subsequently, terminated Shah for cause for violating company policy on confidential information and theft.

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#LT13UK Gerd Leonhard on information, technology, learning and.

Strategic HCM

LT13UK Gerd Leonhard on information, technology, learning and change. And again, none of these things was completely new - augmented reality exists now - and Google Glass - or even the virtual printing of social information on people’s contact lenses (or even ‘contact’ lenses) isn’t a complete step change from today.

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CalChamber to Host HR Boot Camps

HRWatchdog

Space is filling up fast for the one-day, topic-packed seminars focused on the employment life cycle, from hiring through termination, presented by the California Chamber of Commerce. CalChamber’s employment law experts (your personal HR trainers) explain and provide compliance information for these core fundamentals: Register Now!

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How to Turn Pay Secrecy Obstacles Into Pay Transparency Opportunities

ExactHire

Just as recently, I learned about the passage of a new employment law in the state of Massachusetts that bans employers from inquiring about an applicant’s salary history prior to offering the individual a job. Essentially, gut counts for something. It is slated to be effective in July of 2018. Employ people in multiple states?