To celebrate Labor Day 2022, the US Department of Labor (DOL) and National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) have been moving forward with their agenda to assist employees in unionizing and partnering with the Small Business Association to train employers in how to support these issues. Meanwhile across the country, unions are mobilizing resources (money, airtime,…
Balancing HR Compliance with Performance in 2021
HR can be a balancing act, and particularly so, when we’re balancing compliance (what the government says we have to do) with performance (what makes for a better working team), and, added into that, the challenges of what may be a less pro-employer administration in the midst of Covid. To help you more effectively navigate…
Welcome to the Human Race for Business Owners & HR!
PAST EVENT. For more information about upcoming events please join our newsletter. An interactive training on Respect, Inclusion, and Preventing Workplace Harassment. If you’re a business owner, HR person or have management responsibility, then join us for a workshop on respect, inclusion, and preventing workplace harassment. Build the type of workplace in which your co-workers and…
HR Planning for 2019
1. Make workplace harassment prevention a priority for 2019 . If there were a workplace harassment allegation, are you certain that you can prove you made a reasonable attempt to prevent it? What should we do about workplace harassment and why is it so important that we, as a business, are proactive about preventing it? …
Violence Prevention: A Proactive Approach
It happened again the other day. Five employees were shot and killed at an Annapolis Maryland newspaper. Nearly every day the news media reports a killing in schools, churches, and workplaces. There seems to be no end to the violence happening in our communities. In this article we want to focus our attention on lessening…