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As many employers have struggled to motivate remote employees to return to the office, the J.M. Smucker Company has had success by instituting a schedule it had never used before: core weeks. During 22 specific weeks each year, employees are required to come into the office in Orrville, Ohio, but they can work at home...
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New regulations effective October 1, 2023, will impact how employers may consider criminal history in employment decisions.[1] The Fair Chance Act (FCA)[2] prohibits California employers with five or more employees from inquiring into, considering, distributing, or disseminating information related to an applicant's criminal history until after the employer has made a conditional offer of employment....
Employers have faced endless human resource management challenges in recent years, and each year seems to bring more than the last. This year is no different, with the continuation of many HR challenges from last year and a few new ones. Here are the biggest future trends and challenges in HR management for the second...
As an HR professional, you know that employment background check laws are constantly in flux. You must keep current with the changes in the regulations and laws to ensure your company remains compliant. Even unintentional violations of the background check laws could expose your business to legal liability, penalties, and reputational harm. Several new employment...
Tendering for HR Contracts Tendering for HR contracts provides opportunities for HR businesses of all shapes and sizes to add to their revenue streams. The process (especially in the Public Sector) is a fair, unbiased approach for the procuring and sourcing of work, goods or services. Prospective suppliers must ‘bid’ for this work, most notably...
We each have had the distinct pleasure of building and growing HR consulting firms in both the United Kingdom and United States. We have also written and published books on HR consulting. The path isn't easy, but it is worth it in the end, and it led us to this conclusion: Anyone who holds a...
Conducting a layoff is a difficult process that some businesses may have to face. The basic compliance components to review during the layoff/RIF process are outlined below. STEP 1: SELECT EMPLOYEES FOR LAYOFF After an employer has designed its future organizational structure, a system for determining who will stay and who will go must be created....
8 minute read Terminating an employee on a whim can be a risky move for your business. You need a practical and fair process to help reduce your liability. Moreover, it’s best to give employees plenty of time to improve while also providing the tools they need to grow. And, because recruiting, hiring, onboarding and...
HR metrics help you track key HR and recruitment activities to improve employee experience and program effectiveness. Have you ever wondered what successful businesses have in common? They use people data to analyze business performance and define goals. HR metrics are one of the ways to do this. Human resources are, after all, an integral part of...

Employers Must Update Their Summary of Rights Notice for Background Check Screenings
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Employers should promptly update their Summary of Consumer Rights notice provided to applicants and workers before taking adverse employment action based on their background check reports, thanks to a new rule about to take effect. On March 17, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) released an updated “Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit...
Reports from the Institute for Supply Management found the US manufacturing sector contracted in February, but economic activity in the US services sector increased. Manufacturing PMI Economic activity in the US manufacturing sector contracted in February for the fourth consecutive month, according to the Institute for Supply Management’s Manufacturing ISM Report on Business. The Manufacturing...
The 2023 LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise list reveals the 25 fastest-growing job titles over the past five years and the trends defining the future world of work. From the rise in skills-based hiring to the demand for hybrid work, the employment landscape has been undergoing a wave of changes. Throw in a murky economic...
Highly compensated employees can be eligible for overtime pay if they are paid on a daily basis, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Feb. 22 in a case that clarifies overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that a former employee...

There’s a surprising culprit behind mass layoffs, says a prominent management professor at Wharton
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Most bosses blame layoffs on economic downturns, a decline in demand for services, or even overhiring. But one Wharton professor has a different view: It's how U.S. accounting rules force companies to classify human capital that makes them seem like an expense to be cut, rather than an asset to be protected. Peter Cappelli, the...

Want to Measure Onboarding Success? Use These 5 Simple Metrics
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What are the most important onboarding metrics? The five best ways to measure onboarding success are: New hires’ job satisfaction, time to productivity, overall morale, employee turnover, and hiring managers’ performance.Since the pandemic began in early 2020, businesses have struggled to predict what the job market will do next. In the pandemic’s earliest days, widespread...
budgets for L&D efforts. This budget is then distributed amongst employees, with trainees, future leaders, and other high potentials often receiving more training opportunities than others. Individuals may arrive at a company with vastly different knowledge and experience. L&D provides employees with a way in which to bridge skill gaps and develop into leaders. A well-known...
Top-Paying HR Positions Focus on Critical Roles, Cultural Change, Employee Support Nontraditional HR positions have grown in importance, and this is reflected in their wages. Employees' greater expectations for a supportive organizational culture are being reflected in higher pay for HR professionals, new research shows. Compensation data and software firm Payscale's Top Jobs and Skills in...

What is Human Resources Compliance, and Why is it Important?
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How to align your people, processes, and technology with ever-changing regulations and mandates. Amid shifting workplace policies, an ever-challenging hiring climate, and evolving regulations, Human Resources (HR) professionals are bringing compliance to the forefront of their strategies to ensure business continuity. And it’s not just organizational reputation that’s on the line; the average cost of non-compliance has risen more...
No Signs Of Supreme Court's Conservatives Slowing Down By Jimmy Hoover The U.S. Supreme Court's last term was considered by many to be the most consequential in a generation as the court's conservative justices delivered key victories on abortion and guns. But one quick glance at the new term's docket suggests this new supermajority has...
In terms of labor and salaries, 2023 is shaping up to be a year of question marks and contradictions. Despite rising concerns of a recession, employers are still having a hard time filling open positions. Job postings remain 50% above their pre-COVID rates, according to the job site Indeed. That demand for labor continues to...
The field of human resources (HR) – planning, staffing, rewarding and developing talent for today’s thriving businesses – is evolving. In HR topics such as hiring, hybrid and remote work, recruiting, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) and employee engagement, the change has been so rapid that many HR professionals have had to re-learn them as...
LEAP HR: Construction Conference 05-07 December 2022 Tempe, AZ, United States (Human Resources (HR) Conference) LEAP ESG: Life Sciences 05-07 December 2022 Boston, MA, United States (Human Resources (HR) Conference) 2022 MPACE Annual Conference - Mountain Pacific Association of College and Employers 07-09 December 2022 Tucson, AZ, United States (Human Resources (HR) Conference) 34th Annual...
Former Twitter employees have sued the social media giant, alleging that the company violated and planned to violate federal and state laws that govern mass layoffs. The lawsuit comes as a large fraction of Twitter’s employee base has been receiving layoff notices in the wake of Elon Musk’s $44-billion acquisition of the company. Twitter had...
A peculiar convention of getting hired in the U.S. is that a question job seekers may want to ask first is often addressed last: How much does the job actually pay? In the working world, it remains common for employers to keep that vital information under wraps, keeping applicants in the dark while giving hiring...

Emerging Corporate Organizations to Boost Demand for Human Resources Consulting Services.
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North America Tops the Human Resources Consulting Market Accounting for 41% Market Share United States, Rockville MD, Oct. 17, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE), a market research and competitive intelligence provider, says that the global human resources consulting market is estimated at US$ 49.4 billion in 2022 and is expected to progress at a CAGR of 5.2%...
WASHINGTON, Oct 4 (Reuters) - U.S. job openings fell by the most in nearly 2-1/2 years in August, suggesting that the labor market was starting to cool as the economy grapples with higher interest rates aimed at dampening demand and taming inflation. Despite the fifth month of decreases in job openings this year reported by...
What are professional Background Screeners? The background screening profession serves several critical functions, including: Protecting the rights of consumers;Promoting safe homes and workplaces;Helping employers and property managers comply with state and federal screening regulations;Helping public and private employers make informed placement decisions;Providing risk mitigation tools for employers and property managers. With our common goal of...
From complying with new labor laws at the federal, state, and local levels, many business owners and HR professionals face new obligations at the close of 2022. To help, we’ve created a comprehensive list of some of the most important HR tasks related to Payroll, Compliance, Benefits, and General HR. Here’s your year-end HR Checklist...
No one likes layoffs. For employees, losing a job can be a traumatic event. And for a leader, cutting someone from your team comes with its own kind of pain. Still, for any number of reasons, layoffs may be a hard but necessary move. Over the past two years, more and more companies have had to navigate...
How the proper degree program can help you respond to these 5 issues Human resource managers face challenges regularly, given the very nature of their job. They have a wide range of responsibilities and are often called upon to act as counselors, coordinators, and experts on company policy. Regardless of the organization’s size, there are...

Human Resources Conferences in late 2022 You Won’t Want to Miss
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If you’re looking for the best human resources conferences to round out your schedule in 2022, look no further. For HR professionals, the job is ever-evolving, and its demands are constantly changing, making human resources conferences a vital tool for staying up-to-speed with the latest and most important trends. HR Technology Conference: September 13-16, 2022...
Increasing Awareness: Keep an Eye on These 50 Cognitive Biases and Heuristics. You have them... we have them. Everyone does! Sometimes we are aware. Other times we are not. Very often they work at the unconscious level... Other times at a very conscious and intentional level. They are: conscious and unconscious biases, and heuristics. They...
Certification at a glance. Decide: Verify whether SHRM certification fits within your career goals.Determine your appropriate exam levelValidate your eligibility to take the exam.Confirm your readiness: Do you have the time? Do you have the energy? Do you have the commitment? Do you have the funding and the support? Apply & Schedule Determine when you want to test: May...
Hiring in July was far better than expected, defying multiple other signs that the economic recovery is losing steam, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday. Nonfarm payrolls rose 528,000 for the month and the unemployment rate was 3.5%, easily topping the Dow Jones estimates of 258,000 and 3.6%, respectively. The unemployment rate is now...
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How To Ensure Compliance In The Workplace: 9 Tips 1. Documenting policies and procedures is key. If something is important to the success of your business, then it should be documented in your employee handbook. The idea of documenting policies—especially creating them from scratch—easily overwhelms employers when they try to craft the perfect policy language...
It’s easy to understand the importance of the human resource management planning process—the process by which organizations determine how to properly staff to meet business needs and customer demands. But despite its obvious importance, many organizations do not have a strategic human resource planning process in place, with many HR professionals reporting their departments need...
Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 372,000 in June, and the unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent! See the full jobs report for the 2nd quarter of 2022. https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
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Diversity isn’t just a moral issue. There is a business case that can be made for hiring and promoting diversity in the workplace. From recruitment to mentoring, human resources has a main role in the strategy. Diversity and HR The workplace is becoming increasingly more global. With that in mind, diversity translates to into a...
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THE EMPLOYMENT SITUATION -- MAY 2022https://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.nr0.htm
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Happy Easter from HRDoorway!
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HR is all too familiar with the hazards and consequences of company downsizing. Delivering news of layoffs, paycuts, and furloughs is never easy, but unfortunately, it's a responsibility that falls on many HR professionals. While delivering difficult news never gets easier, HR can help make the process as painless as possible. While letting employees go...
The Great Resignation continues along an historic path among all previously reported years of quits data reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The Bureau of Labor Statistics began reporting the number of U.S. workers who quit their jobs in December 2000, giving a trove of monthly data on the ebbs and flows of workers...
HR leaders are in the strangest and most challenging environment and must adapt quickly and decisively if they are to survive and thrive in the coming months. This was the warning from HR industry analyst Josh Bersin in his keynote address about the future of the HR tech market at HR Tech Virtual. And the...
8 Minute Read Applicant tracking systems are powerful recruitment software applications that help organizations attract, engage, select, hire, and onboard employees. A good ATS also helps improve the quality of hires, maintain compliance, and inform decision-making with quality recruiting data. Here are some tried-and-tested ways to choose the right ATS for your recruitment needs.Scan your...
8 Minute Read When developing HR strategies and policies, business owners should be aware of the following as part of their HR compliance checklist. It’s in every business’s best interest to have an HR compliance checklist. After all, compliance is a top area of focus and concern for both human resources departments and company executives....
The market for HR consultants is growing rapidly and companies continue outsourcing human resource functions. Although there is no license indicating the effectiveness of HR consultants there are certain tips that can guide you to hire a professional, skilled and experienced HR consultant. Some of these tips are given below: Look for Certification At time...
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What is HR Consulting industry in the US? Industry operators provide advice and assistance to businesses and other organizations for structuring human resource and personnel policies, employee benefits, compensation systems, wage and salary administration, recruitment and retention. This industry does not include companies that provide professional and management development training or those that list employment...
What Is the State of the Labor Market Today? How Successful Are Organizations at Talent Acquisition? How Effective Are Today’s Talent Acquisition Technologies? Which Technologies Are Most Common? Where Do Organizations Post Jobs and How Effective Are These Channels? Are Organizations Using Mobile and AI Technologies? What Is the Future of Talent Acquisition Technology? What...

Tips for Becoming an HR Consultant
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Ready to be your own boss? These steps will take you there. Some HR practitioners strike out on their own to follow a long-held dream of becoming their own boss. Others are thrust into self-employment after being laid off or furloughed, as has been the case for some during the pandemic. No matter what path...
In May 2020, as the pandemic sent stress levels through the roof, an online children's clothes retailer called Primary started an experiment that it hoped would prevent its staff from burning out: It gave everyone Fridays off. By December, the new schedule was working so well that Primary decided to extend it indefinitely. Primary's staff...
The ongoing effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, along with hiring struggles, and continued economic uncertainty have made 2021 a challenging year for many companies. As year end rolls around and you begin planning for 2022, it's important to make sure you're aware of applicable laws and regulations. Taxes and Payroll Compliance When completing taxes and...
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Every year, new developments and changes in economic conditions impact the way staffing firms approach recruiting. However, 2020 and 2021 have brought unprecedented changes. Based on what I’ve seen, there are five top challenges that staffing firms are facing in 2021, and they include important factors that affect how these professionals do their jobs in...
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I wrote recently about how to lead through this very unique period in society, colloquially known as the "Great Resignation." As a refresher, Anthony Klotz, a professor at Texas A&M University, coined this phrase. He believed there was going to be a wave of workers quitting their jobs across many industries. I've seen that many...
Do you have an onboarding process for new talent?We've shared some common mistakes seen in the article below. https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:6855893390219874304

State Law Updates!
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California Repeals Subminimum Wage Rates for Disabled WorkersNew York Announces Minimum Wage Rates for 2022South Dakota Announces 2022 State Minimum Wage RateCalifornia Family Rights Act to Cover Care for Parents-in-LawWashington Announces 2022 Minimum Wage RateOhio Minimum Wage to Increase in 2022HRDoorway’s compliance form and template database to serve the human resources industry and small businesses...

If you’re a business that needs more workers, try this
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There’s a puzzling labor shortage in the U.S. economy. It’s puzzling because employers report 11 million job openings, the most on record, yet unemployment remains elevated and workers aren’t chasing those jobs. There are 5.6 million fewer people working than before the Covid-19 pandemic began last year—split evenly among men and women—and the portion of...
Recent reports show employers across the country are scrambling for ways to fill their open requisitions. While it might sound contradictory, the U.S. is experiencing higher unemployment numbers and a labor shortage. Conversations with our clients indicate that filling low-wage and hourly positions has been particularly a challenge. How do you attract high-quality talent in...
Employers can legally require COVID-19 vaccination for employees to re-enter the workplace and can provide incentives to encourage employees to get a shot, according to new guidance issued Friday by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Companies are still required to provide reasonable accommodations for employees who are exempt from mandatory immunization based on the Americans...
The spread of the highly contagious Delta variant of Covid-19 is causing infections and hospitalizations to rise again in the United States, even in communities with high vaccination rates. Hopes that the pandemic would soon fade away have been dimmed by the spread of the variant, which appears to evade at least some of the immunity conferred...
As more businesses are requiring proof of vaccination for their employees and customers, a question that often arises is whether it is lawful to ask an applicant about their vaccine status. While we are generally hesitant about encouraging such inquiries (for the reasons summarized below), the short answer (in nearly all places in the U.S.)...
New employee onboarding is the process of integrating a new employee with a company and its culture, as well as getting a new hire the tools and information needed to become a productive member of the team. Onboarding new hires at an organization should be a strategic process that lasts at least one year, staffing...
The Oregon Bureau of Labor and Industries issued a temporary rule expanding the permissible uses of employee sick time under state law, stating that it was responding to recent wildfires, evacuation orders, dangerous air quality conditions and a deadly heat event in the state. The rule took effect July 22, 2021, and remains in effect...
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The pandemic changed the way we hire and will continue to do so for years to come. A combination of factors, including a continuing fear of contracting Covid-19 and childcare facilities still being closed and/or operating at a lower capacity, have significantly impacted the labor market. However, businesses continue to need talent and are in...
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As a business owner, you surely know your products and services but your area of expertise may not be in marketing, branding or sales. You may also not be an expert in human resources and public relations. Why not hire consultants who can tackle those parts of the business for you? Well, there comes a...
You know the old saying, it’s not what you know, but who you know. This saying will always be true, but it was a bit more relevant when personal connections were the essential asset for recruiters, particularly those working in executive search. While gaining and keeping personal networks are still important, when it comes to recruiting...

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One of the greatest advantages of utilizing freelancers is finding a great variety of talent with different skills and bringing on new talent quickly as our needs change -Carol Taylor Director of Content Experience, Microsoft. The team is incredibly responsive, with both client and candidate focus. The team goes above and beyond to quickly resource...
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