Taking the Fear Out of Performance Improvement Plans (PIPs)
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The benefits confusion gap is costing your employees, says MetLife
MetLife’s U.S. president says AI and smarter plan design are closing the worker protection gap
Greetings From Mexico. About That Sick-Leave Policy…
A Mexico vacation while on sick leave is an easy headline. The employer’s defense required a closer look at two separate decisions. TL;DR: A police department defeated discrimination, accommodation, and retaliation claims brought by an officer demoted for violating its sick-leave policy and later discharged because she could not perform
Ep177: What does real and successful DEI look like?
Send us Fan Mail Diversity, equity, and inclusion are not what you really should be questioning. The real question...
Why Your Team Won’t Give You the Real Feedback, with Tanya Uyigue
Tanya Uyigue applied for a promotion she was qualified for and didn’t get it. She asked why. Nobody ever...
Air quality blamed for dipping productivity at end of workdays
CO2 is in the air and it’s behind the post-3pm slump
What’s the ‘most impactful’ addition to performance management?
New report offers valuable advice amid ‘really exciting’ shifts in performance management
Companies are scaling AI. Do employees know how to use it?
AI governance is maturing as adoption grows, but employee guidance is still catching up
University defeats nurse’s religious exemption challenge to COVID vaccine mandate
The hospital called her belief a ‘personal moral choice’ – one judge disagreed
Three years of ‘temporary’ costs California school district a permanent teacher
She signed three temporary contracts – now she’s permanent with backpay on the way
Missing paperwork and a conflicted boss sink Rochester board’s firing
She was charged, heard, and fired – but nobody wrote down who had the authority
California forces employers to disclose AI-driven layoffs under new law
Employers must now name the AI system, the jobs lost, and the functions being automated
Which Employment Laws Apply to Your Organization: A Guide by Employee Count, Location, Industry, and Growth Stage
Why It’s Hard to Know Which Employment Laws Ap ply Most employers know they need to comply with employment...
Easiest E-Learning Authoring Tools for HR and L&D Teams
If you’ve ever opened a new authoring tool with a deadline three days away and closed the tab twenty...
Macy’s workers say 37 cents per benefits dollar went to broker
The broker charged Target almost nothing for the same coverage in the same year
Nike allegedly fires worker her first day back from FMLA leave
She’d already passed the performance plan they used to justif y it