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This nonprofit leader acts as a “no-fee staffing agency” connecting overlooked young professionals to corporate jobs

HR Brew

Through training programs, paid internships, and placement services with local employers, Hopeworks helps young, diverse professionals ages 17 to 26 get their foot in corporate America’s door. Many of them also go on to earn promotions within the same organizations and continuously upskill in their free time. Subscribe to HR Brew today.

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What is “Diverse Slate” Hiring?

Ongig

If you want to boost diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, a “diverse slate” hiring strategy is a great way to achieve this goal. Here’s a quick “diverse slate” definition: Diverse slate hiring is a talent acquisition strategy where you start with a diverse pool of qualified candidates.

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New York City’s Pay Transparency Law Requires Employers to Provide Salary Range Disclosures

Trusaic

The New York City Council closed out 2021 with a step to bolster pay equity, approving a bill that would require employers to post salary ranges in job listings. . New York City is the latest in a string of local jurisdictions and states to combat wage discrimination through pay transparency. The growing trend of pay transparency.

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Why hiring tech is necessary but can have dangerous implications

HRExecutive

After a year of tragically high unemployment rates, 2021 is expected to experience a huge hiring boom. Numerous studies have shown that facial recognition and voice recognition technology are lacking diversity-wise. All of these issues could be mitigated by increasing diversity in the data sets that this technology is trained on.

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Are you doing enough to leverage tech for employee relations?

HRExecutive

The ripple effect of 2020 led to increases in accommodation requests, social media issues and discrimination claims along with a significant decrease in resources and diminished commitments to vital employee relations processes,” she says.

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New Jersey Law Against Discrimination Expands Protections Against Ageism

Trusaic

The state of New Jersey recently updated its Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) to include protections against age discrimination. Below we outline what employers need to know about the anti-discrimination law. The updates expand recourse for employees who are discriminated against based on their age.

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Assumed white job applicants receive 9.5% more interview offers on average than assumed Black applicants in new study

HR Brew

National Bureau of Economic Research economists released a new paper detailing the results of an experiment, in which they submitted 84,000 job applications to 11,000 jobs at 108 Fortune 500 companies between 2019 and 2021. Assumed white applicants received 9.5% more interview offers than assumed Black applicants on average. Taking action.