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Following its 2007 guidance on avoiding workplace discrimination against employees with caregiving responsibilities, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently issued a detailed collection of best practices in this arena for employers. As EEOC stressed when publishing the earlier guidance, there are no new laws involved. Treating caregivers fairly is a matter of applying existing laws, such as Title VII of the Civil Rights Law, the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act, and others.
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Edwin G. Foulke Jr., a former assistant secretary of labor at the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, reports that representatives of all the federal agencies with whom he worked while in Washington believe that sooner or later, there will be a pandemic of global and damaging proportions. At the same time, only one in four U.S. employers has an emergency response plan to cover not just a big flu outbreak but also other kinds of disasters.
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If you are sick at work, should you stay or should you go home? If you supervise workers who are sick, is it more productive to let them stay or send them home? The following information may help you decide the best, and healthiest, course of action.
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The nation’s high court recently issued a ruling in an important union case, 14 Penn Plaza v. Pyett, (U.S., No. 07-581, 4/1/09). It was controversial in the court, splitting the justices 5 to 4, and some employment law experts believe it will raise controversy in other forums, such as Congress.
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The concept of teleworking or telecommuting is becoming less of an exception and more commonplace for employers.
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HR professionals are often overworked, stressed out, doing more with
less, and feeling that they aren’t listened to or taken seriously. Alan A.
Vengel, president and co-founder of the Vengel Consulting Group, knows ways that you may influence change in your organization.
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