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Recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) has become much more than just a solution for high-volume, permanent placement, and as such, organizations need to be prepared to harness and leverage the additional assets RPO can provide. This is according to a new white paper released by ManpowerGroup Solutions, the world’s largest RPO provider, part of ManpowerGroup.
BLR’s RecruitCon in Las Vegas included a session from thought leader John Sullivan, PhD on how to be an aggressive recruiter. Let’s take a look at what he had to say.
It may not be a huge surprise for California HR professionals, but recent research from the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows that employers in California are ahead of the national average when it comes to paid family leave policies. Much of this trend is driven by state and local laws.
By Cathleen S. Yonahara, Freeland Cooper & Foreman LLP One of the largest tech companies in the world, Apple, Inc., recently bit off more than it could chew when it allegedly convinced an employer to terminate an employee in retaliation for his resistance to Apple’s allegedly illegal anticompetitive conduct. Read the details of this California […]
What happens when an employee is out on job-protected leave and an employer realizes that everything keeps moving along just fine without him or her or that his or her duties shouldn’t really take 40 hours per week? The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California recently had to decide just that.
By Carolina A. Schwalbach, Carothers DiSante & Freudenberger LLP In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court held class arbitration waivers to be enforceable, and since then, many arbitration agreements have been modified to include such waivers. Doing so has allowed employers to streamline the resolution of disputes that otherwise would be in an overburdened court system […]
A recent state-by-state analysis shows that not many states have expanded on the Family and Medical Leave Act’s (FMLA) unpaid leave protections or adopted other policies to help expecting and new parents who are employed. However, California received all ‘A’s for the state’s paid leave policy efforts.
Employers in Illinois must now allow workers 2 weeks’ unpaid leave for the death of a child. Illinois appears to be the second state to mandate bereavement leave for private employers; Oregon adopted a similar measure in 2014.
By Kate McGovern Tornone, Editor What happens when an employee is out on job-protected leave and you realize that everything keeps moving along just fine without her? Or that her duties shouldn’t really take 40 hours per week?
This article series covers managing medical certifications under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In the last installment we covered recertificaiton, here we’ll go over return-to-work (RTW) or fitness-for-duty (FFD) certifications.