Workplace Culture

Employees and E-Mail Privacy Rights

Employers are advised to review their electronic communications policies and ensure tha...

Recruitment

‘Quality of Fill’ an Emerging Recruitment Metric

A growing number of companies are adopting the new recruitment metric, which measures t...

HR Administration

Shareholders Demand Better Window Into Succession

Historically, the SEC treated CEO succession planning as ordinary business matters—info...

Benefits

Revised Tax Bill Does Not Include COBRA Subsidy Extension

While Senate Democratic leaders had discussed reducing the extension to November 30, a ...

HR Administration

SHRM Seeks to Put HR Into C-Suite, Policy Conversations

The Society for Human Resource Management hopes that this year’s conference in San Dieg...

Legal

Statutory Remedy Prevails in Sexual Harassment Case

A jury found in a former Waffle House waitress’s favor on both a statutory sexual haras...

Legal

Judge Rules FedEx Drivers Are Not Contractors

The May ruling was the first in the complex FedEx Ground litigation over the classifica...

Benefits

Rules Lay Out Exemptions to Health Care Reform Law

A grandfathered plan would lose its status if it eliminated coverage of a specific cond...