A Department of Health and Human Services final rule could add momentum to employer efforts to negotiate that drug company rebates be passed along to consumers as they purchase medications rather than paid to pharmacy benefit managers.
One new law taking effect January 1, 2021, requires employers, who have 100 or more employees and are subject to federal EEO-1 reporting, to complete employee demographic and pay data reports and, then, submit them to the California Department of […]
When 2020 began, APQC, a benchmarking and best-practices research firm, was poised to have its best year ever. “Then March hit, and everything went crazy,” says Ashely White, executive director of human resources at the Houston-based nonprofit, recalling the onset […]
Oregon voters approved two groundbreaking measures in the 2020 election season to become the first state in the nation to decriminalize personal possession of small amounts of certain controlled substances and legalize the therapeutic use of psilocybin.
Using passwords—the most common digital authentication method to log in to company systems—is rife with problems, from being an annoyance to posing a security risk. Technology vendors are now coming up with methods to allow access to systems that don’t […]
Before recessing for the Thanksgiving holiday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation reauthorizing the National Apprenticeship Act (NAA), which would invest billions of dollars in the work-based learning model, codify standards, and expand apprenticeship to new communities and industries.
How you resolve things after an outburst—within yourself and with your co-workers, manager and boss—is of paramount importance for both your career and workplace culture. How can you set things right? SHRM President and CEO Johnny C. Taylor, Jr., SHRM-SCP, […]
States reported that 778,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Nov. 21, an increase of 30,000 from the previous week’s revised total.
President-elect Joe Biden has indicated that his administration will be more aggressive in minimizing employers’ use of noncompetition clauses in employment contracts and institute an outright ban on no-poaching agreements.
An employee could not prove associational discrimination based on his grandfather’s disability when the employer made ample efforts to accommodate the employee’s need to care for his grandfather and the employee did not suffer an adverse action.
