I’m the HR manager, and I report to the company president. I’ve already talked to him about the Friday 4 p.m. happy hours he hosts in the office. I told him I don’t think it’s appropriate and that it could create real liability issues — especially if someone
A Chick-fil-A franchise is being sued by the EEOC for allegedly refusing a religious accommodation for a Christian employee. Given Chick-fil-A’s reputation as a faith-based company, that’s probably the last lawsuit you’d expect to see. Chick-fil-A famously closes on Sundays, a nod back to founder S. Truett Cathy’s devout
Amanda Taub’s New York Times piece, Actually, Democracy Dies in HR, centers on the idea that it doesn’t take a whole bunch of evil people to destroy a country, but rather just a few evil leaders at the top and a whole bunch of dummies and paperwork, and voila, the end
A lot of people dislike HR. Founders sometimes feel like an HR person is a weight around their neck–always saying no or objecting to new ideas. It’s not because the HR person wants your business to fail. On the contrary, they want your business to succeed. That success, however,
If you were thinking of getting training from AIHR now is the time. From now until Friday, May 28, at midnight Pacific time, you can save 35 percent on AIHR courses. Evil HR Lady readers normally get a 10 percent discount but because it’s HR Week there’s an
“Chris and Jan have broken a Swiss law. What law is it?” This is a question I use all the time for an improv prompt. The audience then suggests a law and the scene begins. Now, while Switzerland has all the normal laws about not stealing and not
You have more HR work than hours in the day. Leadership keeps saying “just use AI.” Easy to say — but which tool, used how, with what guardrails? I’m running a webinar to answer exactly that, and I’m offering it to this group at $39. Monday, 18 May
A Monster survey found that 80 percent of US workers felt their employers had catfished them. Career or job catfishing is a dumb game employers play where they lie to candidates. It’s also called “bait and switch,” and it’s costing your company. Vanessa G. Nelson, Executive HR Risk Advisor,
If your hiring managers and recruiters are using AI tools to evaluate resumes, you’ll hire the best robots out there. Okay, so there are humans attached to the resumes, but a new study from Jiannan Xu (University of Maryland), Gujie Li (National University of Singapore), and Jane Yi Jiang (The
A highly sought-after position opened up. The manager over the position was new to managing and insisted that the position required a specific certification. I informed her that many people had successfully done this job without this certification and that we had several internal candidates who were more
