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Serious insight for serious situations.

Serious insight for serious situations.

Where HR professionals get it wrong: Employment counsels’ collective musings

The Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA) recently conducted a survey of lawyers specializing in employment law. The results of the survey flag the legal issues HR professionals most frequently grapple with in the workplace, particularly those issues where they were most likely to “get it wrong”. The amount of feedback received exceeded the HRPA’s expectations

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Managing the modern workforce requires ambidexterity (and your marketing department can help)

This week I attended a Strategic Capability Network event entitled “HR of the Future in a Global World”, presented by Luca Solari, a visiting professor of human resource management at California Polytechnic State University. In his presentation, Professor Solari compared a human resource professional seeking attention from senior management to a teenager seeking attention from

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The essential human rights primer for workplace investigators

Since joining Rubin Thomlinson, I have had the opportunity to deliver workplace investigation training to hundreds of human resources professionals who are challenged in their workplaces to respond to issues of discrimination and harassment. During that time, I’ve noticed an increasing recognition of the duty to investigate these matters, and in some cases, I’ve seen

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