Staffing Industry News

In response to the recent nationwide uptick in coronavirus cases, health care associations are calling on employers to require inoculation. Additionally, some cities and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs are issuing mandates for high-risk workers.

A seven-step process that can help employers decide whether to mandate that their workers be vaccinated against COVID-19, with guidelines for allowing workers to be temporarily or permanently exempted from the mandate.

Employers are likely, at some point, to receive a military leave request or questions related to the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA). Here are the answers to five common USERRA-related questions.

California employers should take note of a recent appellate court case that could complicate employment background checks. When conducting background checks, it’s common to search for a person’s name in conjunction with a birthdate or driver’s license number so you […]

The IRS has made important changes to the Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System (EPCRS), which could make it easier for employers that sponsor 401(k)s or pension plans to self-correct some plan errors.

The government has proposed penalties for hospitals that don’t comply with a price transparency rule that took effect this year. Meanwhile, group health plans should prepare for their own transparency requirements, which start to take effect in 2022.

An HR professional’s survival guide to employee benefits open enrollment season.

A wide range of technology solutions purport to be “driven by AI,” or artificial intelligence. But are they really? Not everything labeled artificial intelligence really…

One downside of the proliferation of new human resource technologies is that HR professionals and employees often find themselves navigating an ever-expanding maze of…

In this episode of The Workplace podcast, CalChamber Executive Vice President and General Counsel Erika Frank, employment law expert Matthew Roberts, and legislative advocates Chris Micheli and Ashley Hoffman discuss the latest California Supreme Court ruling on premium pay calculations […]