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Former EEOC officials defend DEI initiatives

05/05/2025
A group of former EEOC commissioners and generals counsel have penned an open letter decrying Acting EEOC Chair Andrea Lucas’s efforts to stamp out private-sector diversity, equity and inclusion activities.

Be better! Anti-harassment training, half-hearted investigations aren’t enough

05/02/2025
Why aren’t anti-harassment policies more effective at preventing harassment? The answer may lie in ineffective training and the failure of employers to follow their own policies.

Employees at the brink: A mental health action plan for HR

04/30/2025
The numbers tell a sobering story: 267 workplace suicides in 2022, a 13.1% increase from the previous year. Behind each statistic is a person who saw no other way out—a reality that demands our urgent attention and action. As burnout reaches epidemic proportions, with over half of U.S. employees reporting symptoms, HR professionals find themselves on the frontlines of a mental health crisis that’s costing lives.

20% of Labor Department staffers volunteer to leave this year

04/28/2025
More than 2,700 Department of Labor employees have signed up for the Trump administration’s deferred resignation program and will leave the agency by this fall.

The ‘rookie metric’: How to track quality of new hires

04/28/2025
Your organization likely tracks the individual performance of current new hires to determine their contribution. But most employers don’t measure and compare the aggregate performance of new hires year after year. There are different approaches to measuring quality of hire, but these two are among the most effective and widely used, according to HR consultants:

Play ball! But limit your liability at summer social events

04/28/2025
Say your marketing director breaks his leg during an after-hours employee softball game against a crosstown company. Who’s responsible? You might be surprised.

Understand marijuana laws in every jurisdiction where you operate

04/25/2025
Employers can require employees accused of violence at work to take a drug test. But what happens if the test reveals the presence of marijuana in the system of an employee whose use of medical marijuana is authorized by state law?

8 steps to becoming the manager your employees need

04/23/2025
In an effort to “empower” their staffs, too many managers take a completely hands-off approach, leaving employees alone unless they really need help. But this can create a rudderless ship, says management expert Bruce Tulgan. That’s not leadership! Here’s how effective managers provide genuine support to their employees.

Records retention: Prepare to archive social media posts, text messages

04/21/2025
Most HR pros know they must retain many kinds of documents and records. These days, that includes electronic documents in addition to paper records. Social media posts and work-related text messages are increasingly subject to the same records-retention requirements that have always applied to memos, notes and reports.

HR amid economic uncertainty: Is now the time to ban moonlighting?

04/18/2025
According to a recent survey from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a record number of people are working more than one job.