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Managing A Total Talent Workforce – The Impact Of The Gig Economy

Accurate Background

With more time (and more cause) to reflect on what makes them happy, many people are re-evaluating their career paths and exploring less traditional forms of employment, including contingent , contract and “gig” work. In 2017, for example, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 34% of the U.S.

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Was Graveyard Shift Transfer a Result of Discrimination?

HR Daily Advisor

A federal judge in Aberdeen, Mississippi recently heard an employee’s claims that she was rescheduled to the graveyard shift as a result of discrimination and that she had been subjected to a hostile work environment. In February 2016, however, Covenant Dove informed Shirley that she would be moved back to her original late-night shift.

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Joint Employment and the FMLA: Which Employer is Responsible?

HR Daily Advisor

When a staffing agency and a client both exercise control over an employee, the staffing agency is usually considered the primary employer for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) purposes, according to the U.S. June 6, 2017)). The city told Mya that Randstad was now her employer, but most aspects of her job remained the same.

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New STEM Challenge: Ageism

Steve Boese

As the new year dawns, getting diversity data in better shape is on the minds of many employers, and nowhere is that issue more acute than within the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mat (STEM) professional field. With 2018 just around the corner, HR and talent decision makers remain stymied by the diversity challenge.

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Employee Experience: A Complete Guide for HR

Analytics in HR

From the time they apply for a job until well after they leave an employer, the entirety of their material and relational interactions shape their perception of the organization. For example, the system requires duplicate input of the same information. Employee experience is the HR equivalent of customer experience.

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South Africa attempts Compliance, Cracks Down on Illegal Employment

Global People Strategist

This was the case on Wednesday when one manager was also arrested in connection with the employment of the 25 illegal foreign nationals. . Furthermore, the report found that these illegal residents were more likely to be underpaid and discriminated against in the workplace compared to employees who were South African by birth.

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HR 101: Let’s discuss the history of LGBTQ+ rights at work

HR Brew

As such, President Eisenhower signed executive order 10450 in 1953, prohibiting members of the LGBTQ+ community from federal government and military employment. (It It was eventually repealed by President Obama in 2017.) Seven years later, Wisconsin became the first state to outlaw discrimination based on sexual orientation, CNN noted.