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Furlough vs. layoff: What’s the difference, and what do employers need to know?

Insperity

And if exempt employees only work a partial week due to a government shutdown, you likely still need to pay them a full week’s salary. Other tips for avoiding issues as an employer: Check with your legal counsel to understand if a furlough would affect your employees’ full-time status under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).

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How employee resource groups can help employees and your business

Insperity

It’s a good idea to consult with your legal team as you define your policy on employee resource groups and work with active groups. Train your company’s leadership to understand employee resource groups and their purpose, as well as the company policy governing employee resource groups. What to watch out for.

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3 leadership red flags Elizabeth Holmes should have raised—and how you can spot them yourself

Work Life

He wrote to Holmes that “samples should have never run on Edisons to begin with” and that he was “extremely irritated and frustrated by folks with no legal background taking legal positions and interpretations on these matters.” Whatever the legal culpability of Elizabeth Holmes, this much is clear.

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This is one thing AI cannot do (and what managers can do about it)

Work Life

The algorithm was instructed to optimize cost-efficiency, and it was more expensive to advertise to younger female applicants because they were considered a prized demographic. Skipping this step could lead to unfair hiring practices going unnoticed and soon legal consequences.

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I’ve worked in DEI for a decade, it won’t survive beyond 2025

Work Life

Given the pressures from the current legal and political climate, I’m sure it won’t survive beyond 2030, and maybe not even beyond 2025. I’ve been in this business for 10 years, which is long enough to know that the current corporate approach to DEI, while admirable, has continually come up short.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

It’s important to pay attention to the business matters at hand along with their legal aspects and personalities, he adds. When I started as a government contract consultant in 2005, I would accept all kinds of consulting: sales and marketing, certification, business development and contracts. Win-win-win.

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Women far more likely to have disadvantageous flexible working arrangements

Workplace Insight

The findings have been published, a year after the government closed its consultation on flexible work, and ahead of the next committee stage of Yasmin Qureshi MP’s private members bill on flexible work. Ministers promised to modernise employment law to make flexible working options the norm for every job.