Category: Human Resources

SHRMLabs Announces 4th Annual Better Workplaces Challenge Cup Winner

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SHRMLabs, a SHRM subsidiary, announced Ovida as the winner of the 2024 Better Workplaces Challenge Cup (BWCC) at SHRM’s Annual Conference & Expo (SHRM24) in Chicago. BWCC is a competition to highlight the most innovative workplace technology solutions from companies across the globe, which awards the winner the cup and a $50,000 cash prize. […]

Here’s what not to do when an employee discloses her disability on her first day of work.

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently sued an employer who told an employee to leave on her first day of work shortly after she requested reasonable accommodations for her visual impairments and later fired her the same day after the employee’s advocate offered to pay for accommodations. Here’s more […]

Evolving with Language – Insights on Inclusive Communication

Listen in on a thought-provoking episode of Transform Your Workplace, where host Brandon Laws sits down with linguistic anthropologist Dr. Suzanne Wertheim to discuss insights from her book, The Inclusive Language Field Guide. To foster respectful communication, she teaches us that context is key and offers guiding principles rather than […]