by Warren Bobrow | Mar 6, 2018 | Legal Issues, Recruitment
When we hear about age discrimination employment lawsuits, they are typically centered on older workers being let go when a company reorganizes so that less expensive (e.g., younger) employees are retained. Of course more subtle examples of ageism are present in...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 20, 2018 | Culture, Legal Issues, Talent Management
Workplace controversies that make headlines are a bonanza for corporate trainers. Even in states like California that have mandatory sexual harassment training (companies with 50 or more employees are required to provide all supervisors two hours of sexual harassment...
by Warren Bobrow | Oct 25, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Skills Assessment, Talent Management
The idea of implicit bias has been making its way into the business vernacular. It involves the attitudes or stereotypes that affect our understanding, actions, and decisions in an unconscious manner. As you probably gathered from the definition, implicit bias is...
by Warren Bobrow | Jun 6, 2016 | Legal Issues, Performance, Talent Management
There’s been much talk about the new department of labor rule that will require overtime pay for salaried employees making less than $47,476 (the current threshold is $23,660) starting December 1, 2016. This threshold will now update every three years. This has led...
by Warren Bobrow | Mar 24, 2016 | Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Test Validation, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
I wrote a few weeks ago about Intel’s drive to diversify its workforce. Regular readers know that I write about bias occasionally. It’s good that the topic makes it to the mainstream media occasionally when not related to a lawsuit. The article talks about techniques...
by Warren Bobrow | Feb 8, 2016 | Employee Engagement, Legal Issues, Pre-Employment Testing, Recruitment, Talent Management
With great fanfare, Intel announced recently that it is making progress in meeting its diversity goals. I’m not going to pick on their numbers as their current demographics are what they are. There are some good lessons we can learn from how they approached the issue....
