Employee Relations
Global Workplace Compliance- Spring 2010 in Review
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 10:52On 20 January, the Global Workplace Compliance network held its third webinar focusing this time on Asian employment trends and what U.S. employers need to know about employment law in India, Korea and China. The session was moderated by Jacqueline Scott of Fortney Scott, and the panel included Shalini Agarwal, Esq., Partner, ALMT LEGAL (India), Brendon Carr, Esq., Attorney, Hwang Mok Park, PC (Korea) and K. Lesli Ligorner, Esq., Partner, Paul Hastings (China).
Vanguard and Breakthough (UK)- Spring 2010 in Review
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Fri, 06/11/2010 - 10:44Employee engagement across working life
As companies struggle to meet the challenges of the recession, HR and business commentary is highlighting the importance of employee engagement; the key to business success is motivated employees within a supportive and inclusive culture - the theme of the recent Vanguard network meeting.
Study Suggests Social-Media in the Workplace Puts Companies at Risk
Submitted by samantha.chiafalo on Thu, 06/10/2010 - 08:20According to a recent study by the ISACA (formerly known as the Information Systems Audit and Control Association); a global organization focusing on the security of information systems, employees who dabble in social networking on and off the job could expose their companies to a variety of risks. The top five social-media risks according to the study are: malware, brand hijacking, lack of content control, noncompliance with rules over recordkeeping, and unrealistic expectations of Internet performance.
Best Practice of the Month: Give Employees the Opportunity to Self-Identify as LGBT
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 23:51According to the Human Rights Commission (HRC), the largest LGBT advocacy group in the U.S., over half of LGBT employees hide their identity at work, but nearly three quarters would be willing to disclose it in an anonymous survey. Some ORC member companies have achieved response rates of over 90 percent on sexual orientation and gender identity questions.
Global Workplace Compliance Network Webcast- Employment Law in South America
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Thu, 04/01/2010 - 18:59Event Date:
Tue, 04/20/2010 - 11:00 - 12:30
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Webcast
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South America is home to the world’s seventh largest economy: Brazil. In Chile, Panama and Argentina, voters are abandoning extremists and revolutionaries in favor of free-market-minded centrists. In growing numbers, the people of South America are embracing the promises of the free market; but the traditions, practices and bureaucratic hurdles in this diverse region present unfamiliar challenges to many U.S. employers.
Norway Companies Negatively Affected by Female Quotas, but Because of Inexperience Not Gender
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:00A new study conducted at the University of Michigan finds that public companies in Norway have been negatively affected by a recent law requiring corporate boards to have female membership of at least 40 percent -- but not because of gender.
UK Government Lobbying Hard to Resist EU Proposals to Raise Maternity Pay
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 00:00The UK Government is lobbying hard, with the support of British business organisations, to resist proposals to increase maternity pay that are estimated will cost the UK £2 billion a year. British business organisations are reported to have said that the proposals are very worrying.
Big Lots Settles Latino-on-Black Discrimination Charges
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Fri, 02/19/2010 - 00:00On February 18, a U.S. district court judge approved a consent decree involving Big Lots discount stores in which Latino workers were found to have discriminated against and harassed some African-American em
Challenges to Managing Redundancies in Asian Countries
Submitted by Jessica Kirby on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 20:34U.S.-based employment lawyers and compliance professionals, accustomed to the “at will” employment model that prevails in the U.S., are often vexed by the hurdles employers must clear to fire employees in other countrie
AA Ban Proposed in Utah
Submitted by Lindsay Herod on Wed, 02/17/2010 - 00:00On February 12, the Utah state Senate proposed a ban on affirmative action.
