The HR Pro: Top Human Resource Issues for 2016, Part I
From the evolution of employee sick leave to an increase in disability claims, from changing workplace demographics to overtime expansion, human resource professionals are facing a variety of new and developing challenges this year. This month’s column will address four health-related topics. Next month, we’ll look at four workplace and employment issues. Paid Sick Leave The paid sick leave revolution is upon us. As of today, four...
The HR Pro: Top Human Resource Issues for 2016, Part I
From the evolution of employee sick leave to an increase in disability claims, from changing workplace demographics to overtime expansion, human resource professionals are facing a variety of new and developing challenges this year. This month’s column will address four health-related topics. Next month, we’ll look at four workplace and employment issues. Paid Sick Leave The paid sick leave revolution is upon us. As of today, four...
Parental Leave Still A Rarity for Most
There’s never been a better time to have a baby at Facebook. Or at Netflix. Or Credit Suisse Group. But as those and other big-name corporations expand paid leave for new parents, millions of ordinary Americans face a hard truth: they get no parental leave at all. Call it the baby gap. In most wealthy nations, getting time off to care for a new child is a given. But in the United States, generous parental leave — indeed, any parental...
Paid Parental Leave Work for Blue-Collar
In the rash of American companies to roll out generous parental leave policies over the past few weeks — Netflix! Goldman Sachs! Adobe! Microsoft! — Thursday’s announcement that McLean, Virginia-based Hilton Hotels would be giving new mothers 10 paid weeks off and fathers two weeks off got little press. Just another company seeking to jump on the PR bandwagon, one might conclude, perhaps laudable but not especially noteworthy....
