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Is team work commonsense? A new book called Collaborative Intelligence: Using Teams to Solve Hard Problems by Harvard psychology professor, J. Richard Hackman says our understanding of how to work together might be wrong.
Archives: Employment Discrimination
Female Wal-Mart Employees File Charges to Preserve Sex Discrimination Claims
More than 500 current and former female employees of Wal-Mart that were part of the failed class action lawsuit have filed discrimination claims with the EEOC in an effort to protect their right to pursue individual and class action pay … Continue reading
Pepsi settles race discrimination lawsuit involving criminal background checks.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission announced that Pepsi Beverages Co. will pay $3.13M to settle a race discrimination lawsuit involving criminal background checks. Pepsi’s former policy of not hiring workers with arrest records, even if they had never been convicted … Continue reading
EEOC Leans Toward Limiting use of Criminal Background Checks for Hiring
Employers are predicting new guidelines from EEOC that will govern the use of criminal-background checks during the hiring process after attending hearings last month in Washington on the role that arrest and conviction records should or should not play in … Continue reading
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Great Book for HR Professionals seeking to Understand Statistical Analysis of Adverse Impact
A new book by Stephanie Thomas aims to give human resources professionals and legal counsel a better understanding of the information their statistical consultants are providing. The hope is that this will provide them with an improved ability to identify … Continue reading
ADAAA Regulations take Effect Today
The final regulations issued by the EEOC that implement the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA) are effective today. The new regulations feature nine “Rules of Construction” to help employers determine whether an impairment substantially limits a major life activity. … Continue reading