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Yet More to Know About Millennials
We’ve certainly seen our share of divergent reports about millennials in the workplace. We’ve all seen and read the ones suggesting they’re a privileged generation with a less-than-stellar work ethic...
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Trump Win Good for Biz Women??
Not one for post-election posting here, but this LinkedIn piece by Sallie Krawcheck caught my eye. As a woman watching and weathering the campaign, and now the transition to a Trump presidency, I...
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A Bad-Behavior Hiring Predictor
Assessing job candidates for honesty and integrity is nothing new in hiring and HR. Employers have been concerned about who exactly is working for them — their moral fiber, if you will — long before...
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Disability Stigma Alive and Well
Came across this post on LinkedIn the other day, reminding us all about the importance of giving disabled Americans the chance to prove themselves in the workplace. Included in the general reminder by...
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Amex Joins Parental-Leave Parade
American Express is the latest to board the parental-leave bandwagon. It is announcing today a significant step up in its benefits, not just to new moms and dads, but to those wishing to be. The...
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Empty Nesters’ Emptying Coffers
Full disclosure: I’m a softy when it comes to helping my grown kids. I frequently find myself opening my wallet more than I should, especially during this “giving” holiday. Not that they ask for it,...
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401(k) Creators Lament Creation
A most interesting regret highlighted in the Wall Street Journal on Monday! (Subscription required.) Seems the handful of champions of the 401(k) retirement-savings vehicle now see the errors of their...
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Death to the HR Business Partner?
Someone recently shared this post on LinkedIn by Tom Rommens, who describes himself as “Passionate about HR.” I guess passion, then, would explain his headline: Would Somebody Please Kill the HR...
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More 401(k) Bashing, and a Fix
I posted here earlier this month about a provocative Wall Street Journal piece in which the creators and early adopters of the 401(k) retirement-savings vehicle lament the revolution they started....
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Pay Equity for Lower Ranks Only
We’ve been focusing, along with the rest of the media, on gender pay equity and wage gaps for some time now. (Witness searches on this HRE Daily site and our magazine website, HREOnline.com, alone.)...
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Make Those Vacation Plans Today
Just a heads up that, if you’d like to join forces with the Entertainment Benefits Group and Project: Time Off in encouraging employees to take all their vacation time, today (Tuesday) is the day to...
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Fix STEM Gap by Making Science Fun
Anything that encourages and inspires the mastery of science in this country raises my interest. I come from a long line of scientists who — aside from being brilliant heroes of mine — always found...
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Travel Ban Would Impact Many
Though President Trump’s travel ban has been frozen indefinitely, a decision made Thursday by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, it’s still worth noting how many organizations...
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Firing Someone over Politics
With conflict between President Trump supporters and detractors still at a fiery pitch, and with his protested inauguration still in the rearview mirror, this recent post on the Littler site might...
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More Bad News on 401(k) Front
Seems the 401(k) red flags just keep waving. This latest report from Ben Steverman on the Bloomberg.com site — based on U.S. Census Bureau research — shows a whopping two-thirds of Americans aren’t...
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Student Debt Still a Plague
Here’s some more fuel on the financial-stress fire, particularly as it affects employees straddling student debt: A new survey by American Student Assistance finds more than half of all young workers...
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Sad State of Parental Leave
Tuned into a pretty interesting, if not depressing, Facebook Live session on Wednesday. Seems the at-least-slow progress in paid parental leave we’ve been writing about here on HRE Daily and on our...
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Paying CEOs to Fail
Scott MacDonald thinks the contract language and hiring processes for chief executive officers need to change. As he sees it, some CEOs are great leaders who deserve their seemingly extravagant...
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A Call for Digital Mindfulness
Is social media ruining our lives? I guess ComPsych would say so — gone unchecked, that is. That’s why the Chicago-based employee-assistance-program-services provider is offering a new training course...
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Taking On Banks Over Gender Pay
Figured the day before Equal Pay Day (that’s right, that’s tomorrow!) would be a perfect time to tell you about a pretty interesting teleconference I sat in on recently. The topic, you guessed it, was...
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