Whitney Glover , Julie Pugh, & Lee P. Geiger
Picture the start of a typical work day. You head over to the breakroom, grab your morning coffee, and walk back to your desk. As you pass by a manager’s office, you overhear a bit of a conversation between the manager and an employee: “Tasha, you really need to be aware of your tone when interacting with ...
Football fans in Cincinnati eagerly await Monday, September 30. That night, the Bengals square off against longstanding rivals, the Steelers. When you mention September 30, some fans may even hum ESPN’s iconic Monday Night Football song (which I’m sure you are now). Those in HR have much more somber thoughts about September 30. That’s ...
“The American community is today, as it has long been, a rich mosaic of religious faiths.” So writes Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan. Religious pluralism is a fact not only in our country as a whole, but in our workplaces as well. This growing pluralism also includes growing numbers of people who identify with no religion, particularly within ...
Last night I gave into temptation, or maybe fell victim to Facebook propaganda, and watched the latest documentary on Netflix, “The Great Hack”. Without spoiling too much, the documentary revisits the Cambridge Analytica and Facebook scandal that simultaneously shocked the world but also confirmed what we already knew but refused to ...
By Dan Burke & Alex Mattingly
The Department of Labor (DOL) this week made it easier for small businesses to band together to create joint 401(k) retirement plans for workers. The new rule takes effect September 30, 2019. Now particularly smaller businesses will have more ways to join together to offer retirement accounts to their workers.
Such ...
By Brian Thomas & Laura Caty
Imagine seeing your dream job posted on a company’s website. You throw caution to the wind and submit an application. Almost immediately, a Chatbot pops on your screen with a series of automated questions designed to verify your interest in the job, your job history, and your available start date. After keying in your ...
By Brian Thomas and David Stewart
You saw the headlines. U.S. soccer megastar Megan Rapinoe flatly offered, “I’m not going to the [freaking] White House,” when asked whether she’d visit the executive mansion if the US Women’s National Team were to win another World Cup title. Some were outraged; claiming Rapinoe and her teammates ...
By Brian Thomas and Whitney Glover
Imagine you’re a hiring manager. Candidates Chris, Jordan, and Nykesha apply for a job as an executive vice-president with your company. You learn from the resumes that one of the candidates is Harvard graduate with 18 year’s work experience. Another is a single parent who, despite a difficult background ...
Effective June 27, 2019, Kentucky employers will need to provide additional accommodations to their pregnant workers who have limitations related to pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition. The “Kentucky Pregnant Workers Act” applies to employers with 15 or more employees within Kentucky.
These new protections include ...
If you read the headlines on Monday, you might have thought for a brief moment that it marked the end of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Employers may have initially been filled with glee, only to realize that elimination of the EEOC would lead to an increase in lawsuits. But, it’s a new dawn, the dust has settled and it’s ...