| | | Highlights from Human Resource Executive® magazine and HREOnline.com. | | | | Stories | | Gen Yers will soon be the dominant age group in the workplace. This will have profound implications for all companies, especially the nation's largest employers.
With new research finding large employers embracing their LGBT workers like never before, experts say HR leaders can play a crucial role in demonstrating support for these employees by promoting employee-resource groups geared toward them.
With its recent tax-reform plan, the White House is seeking to eliminate flexible spending accounts related to caring for children and aging parents, while also trying to broaden current limitations. Experts discuss the HR aspects of the proposed changes and how they would affect employees — and their loved ones.
Aetna made recent headlines by joining companies such as Gap, IKEA and Starbucks in notably increasing lower-income workers' salaries. Experts say it may be tempting to predict a trend is developing, but they don't foresee low-income employees receiving significant raises on a broad scale.
Here is a four-point checklist executives across the company can use to develop winning workforce strategies in an era in which the only constant is change. | | |  | People are your biggest investment — and the right people can be your greatest advantage. How do you find, engage, and hire the most promising candidates — before the competition beats you to them? And once they're hired, how do you get them up to speed in record time?
You do it with solutions that blend smart recruitment marketing with robust tools for selection, analysis, and onboarding. |
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| | | | Snippets From HRE Daily | | | About two-thirds of companies that sponsor defined-benefit plans intend to take steps this year to protect their bottom lines from expected rises in premiums from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., writes Senior Editor Andrew R. McIlvaine.New research finds employees with workaholic tendencies may not always work out so well, writes Staff Writer Mark McGraw.A 12-week study of overweight employees found that the increase in physical activity from using a treadmill desk was small and did not help workers meet public-health guidelines for daily exercise, writes Web Editor Michael J. O'Brien.The U.S. Department of Labor announced a $5 million funding opportunity to link inmates to jobs before they're even released, writes Managing Editor Kristen B. Frasch.The IRS rehired hundreds of former employees who had substantiated conduct or performance issues, including 141 former employees with prior substantiated tax issues, writes Editor David Shadovitz.
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