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President Biden’s sweeping Covid-19 mandate requirement for companies of 100 or more employees, announced last Thursday, brings managing the mandate and the reasonable accommodations requests from employees to the top of HR’s to-do list. The mandate requires workers either to…
Read More Managing religious and medical exception requests for Biden’s Covid-19 vaccine mandate
For the second year in a row, the US celebrates Labor Day during a dramatic transformation of work and high anxiety for CEOs and workers. The difficulties presented by a chronic labor shortage of skilled and unskilled jobs are complicated…
Read More Four disruptive steps to transform the work environment and finally beat Covid-19
This year’s open enrollment will be like no other. Continuing COVID19 concerns, technology-empowered health care services alternatives, and new legislation will drive novel considerations for 2022. In addition, there are always the standard open enrolment issues of new health care…
Read More Nine commanding health care benefit issues for 2022 that will drive your employer brand.
Leaders often speak with me about the repeated delays in calling back to the office their remote employees and alternative optimum dates for their return. In fact, some organizations have rescheduled the return-to-the-office date four times. Others have recalled managers…
Read More Are you on the right — or wrong — side of history with your return-to-the-office plan?
Google has changed its Jobs Search function in ways that have either already gone into effect or will take place on October 1. The new system should improve the experience of job searching. However, these changes will require recruiters to…
Read More Google’s Job Search changes requires action and will improve applicant experiences
Economists from the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Chicago last week released the results of a discrimination audit of 108 companies. The audit revealed that entry-level applications from candidates with a “Black name” get fewer callbacks than…
Read More Economists find discrimination in recruiting by race and gender. We can change it.
The US tight labor market is requiring companies across several industries to raise pay to attract new, experienced workers. This strategy creates pay compression for existing workers — meaning, they are now underpaid — and leaves them deeply dissatisfied. To…
This week’s headlines highlight how the fourth COVID19 surge among the unvaccinated in the US is shifting plans by employers to recall workers to the office after Labor Day and explore whether employers should require workers to vaccinated. Companies need…
Read More NOW is the time for employers to require COVID19 vaccines.
The labor shortage in the US will be long-lasting because of low birth rates, retiring baby boomers, immigration that is not up to the demand for skilled and unskilled labor, and the difficulties of automating professional services. To overcome these…
One of the most difficult budgets to prepare for any company is the human resources budget. HR leaders and their executive teams need to anticipate the needs for next year for both the HR department and for leading the workforces.…
