he U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), issued a report today on the State of Older Workers and Age Discrimination 50 Years After the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). The ADEA was signed into law in December 1967 and took effect 50 years ago this month, in June 1968. The ADEA was an important part […]
New I-9 form goes live today
The federal government’s new I-9 form for employment verification goes live today. Further information can be found at https://www.uscis.gov/i-9
Annual VEVRAA Hiring Benchmark is 6.7 Percent
Today the 2017 Annual Vietnam Era Veterans’ Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA) hiring benchmark was updated on the VEVRAA Benchmark Database. The benchmark – 6.7 percent – is effective March 31, 2017. Contractors who adopted the previous year’s national benchmark of 6.9 percent after March 4, 2016, but prior to this announcement, may keep their benchmark […]
New rules for the H-2B visa program announced by the US Departments of Labor and Homeland Security
In response to recent court decisions that have created significant uncertainty around the H-2B temporary foreign nonagricultural worker program, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Homeland Security today announced an interim final rule to reinstate and make improvements to the program and a final rule to establish the prevailing wage methodology for that program. These […]
Do you know the real cost of hire for your organization?
Daniel Bloom and Associates, Inc. as a deliverable from our Achieving HR Excellence seminar have developed an Excel based spreadsheet which calculates the cost of hire for an organization. Full editable to align it with your organization. Get your free cost of hire calculator by completing the form below:
TLS Continuum Part 4: Do you know where you are going?
Whether you are just joining the series or have been reading this series from the beginning, we are essentially at the same point. From here on out in the series we have begun a very unique journey. I can provide you with the starting point but I cannot provide you with the end point. Further, […]
It is easy for someone who doesn’t know me to judge me
This has been a very troubling last couple of weeks for me. I thought that we had progressed as a society beyond the point where we were stereotyping individuals based on our views of the world. Along with the rest of the world we watched the events unfold in reaction to New York, Ferguson, Cleveland […]
What’s Killing Creativity in our Students?
One of my HR Colleagues, Trish McFarlane posted this post in her HR Ringleader Feed and with her permission I have posted it for our friends and clients to see. It has a real valid point for our organizations today and in the future. Posted: 18 Nov 2014 06:28 AM PST It’s been a week […]
HRCI Pre-Approves two of our programs for Recertification Credits for 2015
Both our 2-day seminar, titled How to Become the Critical HR Leader you were meant to be: Achieving HR Excellence through Six Sigma and our 75-minute concurrent session titled In Plain Sight: Finding and Eliminating Organizational Inefficiencies have been approved for 2015 continuing education credits by the Human Resources Certification Institute for the 2015 Calendar […]
2014 EEO-1 Survey
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has completed its mailing of the 2014 EEO-1 survey Notification Letters. The EEO-1 is an annual survey that requires all private employers with 100 or more employees, and federal government contractors or first-tier subcontractors with 50 or more employees and a contract/subcontract of $50,000 or more to file the EEO-1 […]