The employment application is the employer's first opportunity to screen candidates. Every employer should require candidates applying for a job at their company to fill out their company employment application so they can select qualified candidates for interviews. An employment application allows the employer to obtain basic information regarding the prospective employee's educational and work background. The application should also have a statement that all the information contained in the application is true and correct. This is important if contradicting information is uncovered at a later date. When signed and dated by the applicant, the employment application becomes a legal document.
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Pay transparency is defined as the degree to which employers are open about what, why, how, and how much employees are compensated. While the decision to disclose pay ranges is largely left to the employer, a growing number of states and cities have started implementing pay transparency laws requiring the disclosure of pay information to applicants.
As Election Day nears, employers should be prepared to respond to an employee's request for time off to vote. While there is no federal law mandating voting leave, most states require employers to provide their employees with time off from work to vote in an election.
The following chart summarizes each state's requirements on:
As an employer, you want to ensure your employees are able to perform their job duties in a safe work environment. While it may be easier to recognize fall hazards or faulty equipment, employers should also safeguard against another risk: sexual harassment. Over 5,500 claims of sexual harassment were filed with the EEOC in 2021, which doesn’t account for many other employees that felt forced to leave their job or, worse, struggled with harassing behavior in silence.
This Monday we celebrate Labor Day, which is a day to honor and recognize contributions that workers have made. The first
Labor Day
holiday was celebrated on Tuesday, Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City. By 1894, 23 more states had adopted the holiday, and on June 28, 1894, President Grover Cleveland signed a law making the first Monday in September of each year a national holiday.
Employer regulations at the local, state and federal levels have been increasing, the workforce is becoming more dynamic, the expectations of managers are more complex, and many businesses are trying to do more with less.
Employers use wellness programs to supplement their employee benefit programs in an effort to prevent illness and lower health care costs by motivating employees to adopt and maintain healthful behaviors. These programs are popular with employers looking to reduce health care costs, and studies have shown that implementing and maintaining an employee wellness program can also result in increased employee productivity, reduced absenteeism, higher morale, and increased employee retention.
U.S. employers added 372,000 new jobs in June, beating economists’ forecasts, according to the employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The unemployment rate held steady at 3.6 percent. Some indicators show a contraction in employment, but the overall picture is that the U.S. labor market is still strong.