May the magic and the wonder of the holiday season stay with you throughout the coming year.
As the year ends, we think about all that we are grateful for. Our relationship with you is one thing we treasure. Thank you for the opportunity to serve you and meet your testing needs.
All of us at IPMA-HR wish you and yours a safe and happy holiday season and much success in the new year.
Happy Holidays!
Your Friends at IPMA-HR
Anti-patronage ordinances, funding restrictions and tensions between law enforcement and minority communities reaching back decades impede efforts to build police departments that reflect the populations served. Read More…
A joint publication of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the Federal Trade Commission
When making personnel decisions – including hiring, retention, promotion, and reassignment – employers sometimes want to consider the backgrounds of applicants and employees….Except for certain restrictions related to medical and genetic information (see below), it’s not illegal for an employer to ask questions about an applicant’s or employee’s background, or to require a background check. However, you must be in compliance. This publication explains how to comply with both the federal nondiscrimination laws and the FCRA Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). Read more…
We love to hate meetings. And with good reason — they clog up our days, making it hard to get work done in the gaps, and so many feel like a waste of time. There’s plenty of advice out there on how to stop spending so much time in meetings or make better use of the time, but does it hold up in reality? Can you really make meetings more effective and regain control of your calendar? Read More…
Steve Jobs insisted that every item on a meeting agenda have a designated person responsible for that task and any follow-up work that happened. He called that person the DRI—the Directly Responsible Individual. He knew the public accountability would ensure that a project or task would actually get done, and he wanted to set clear, organized instructions for his team to follow.
It sounds simple enough, and yet the majority of managers and leaders completely fail to do this. We’ve all left meetings feeling good about what we discussed only to later wonder why so little happened as a result. Where did the momentum go? Read More…
Periodically we will be posting links to resources that we have found from across the web. We hope you find this information helpful as you navigate through the everyday, and not so everyday, issues facing HR professionals today. Here’s a list of resources that caught our eye. As always, we have included a couple of good free publications to the list.
Readers of the ASR have expressed interest in articles detailing legal issues so we wanted to pass along this information from IPMA-HR.
You can join renowned employment and labor law attorney David Ritter of Barnes & Thornburg LLP, for IPMA-HR’s Essentials of Employment & Labor Law webinar series. This new webinar series is the most comprehensive, practical, up-to-date employment and labor law training available for public sector HR practitioners.
This 4-part series is geared to the real-world needs of human resources professionals and managers, providing “best practice” insights and information on some of the most pressing issues in employment and labor law today.
Available both live and on-demand, the four webinars include:
The Legal Implications of Social Media in the Workplace
March 25, 1:00 p.m. EST
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) & Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
June 17, 1:00 p.m. EST
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
October 14, 1:00 p.m. EST
Conducting Employee Investigations
December 9, 1:00 p.m. EST
Become an even more effective human resources administrator with this essential webinar series.
Purchase now and watch at your convenience — webinars are available both live and on-demand.
HRCI | The Essentials of Employment & Labor Law webinar series, has been approved for 4 (HR (General)) recertification credit hours toward PHR, SPHR and GPHR recertification through the HR Certification Institute. For more information, visit www.hrci.org.
IPMA-CP | This webinar series has been approved for 4 points (1 point per webinar) toward IPMA-CP or IPMA-CS recertification. To learn more, please visit: www.ipma-hr.org/recertification.
Periodically we will be posting links to resources that we have found from across the web. We hope you find this information helpful as you navigate through the everyday, and not so everyday, issues facing HR professionals today. Here’s a list of resources. (more…)