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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

It may not be surprising that during 2020, social and political conflict —along with ongoing challenges due to COVID-19—helped position the employee relations (ER) function as a vital factor in shaping positive employee experiences. million employees globally, including 2.3 million employees in the U.S.

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boss is forcing me to work while I’m laid off, office says “I appreciate you” instead of “thank you,” and more

Ask a Manager

I don’t know if this makes a difference, but the reason I have not gone to HR is because I am in the HR Department, and the other team is the Employee Relations team. Both the Family and Medical Leave Act and the ADA prohibit discrimination against applicants who have exercised their rights under those acts.

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Want real HR change? Look to data and analytics

HRExecutive

Advertisement Seventy-five percent of companies are using technology solutions for managing employee relations—an 11% increase from 2019—allowing them to create employee data repositories and gain better analytics capabilities.

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How the Employee Relations Job Function is Changing: A Look at the HR Acuity Benchmark Study

Evil HR Lady

Just what does the employee relations department do all day? This is the type of question that if you ask an ER person directly, it may result in a pointed glare or perhaps weeping as the employee relations expert sinks into a chair. It’s been a rough few months. As I said, it’s been a bit rough.

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HR-tech providers are stepping up with free access to data, apps

HRExecutive

Using a combination of subject-matter experts and technology, the companies fielded nearly 170,000 HR inquiries from small and mid-sized businesses in 2019. The limited edition provides employee documentation and tracking functionality that will equip businesses to monitor the people impact of the crisis.

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COVID-19 pandemic: How to prepare your business

Insperity

News about coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 or “the coronavirus”) pandemic understandably can be unsettling, but infectious disease outbreaks need not induce panic. Assess whether in-bound materials coming from an outbreak area should be quarantined to avoid surface transmission to employees. This includes employee relations.

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Here’s when you may have to accommodate an employee’s use of CBD

The Employer Handbook

At a June 2019 meeting, the company advised that employees working on a particular government contract would need to drug test, but no one would lose their jobs because of the results. Does this sound a little like disability discrimination to you? The plaintiff’s health improved, and so did her performance at work.