HR Homeroom By Edward Stern (OSHA, ret.)   Introduction  The University of Maryland (UMD) has a Policy on Professional Conduct and Workplace Bullying. (See https://policies.umd.edu/personnel/policy-on-professional-conduct-of-nonexempt-and-exempt-staff-employees.)  The policy was created by the University System of Maryland (USM), which consists of 13 state universities.   It […]

Labor Landscape A new Wells Fargo survey, with data collected by Ipsos among U.S. adults 25 years old or older with incomes under $100,000, finds 97 percent are planning on New Year’s Resolutions to include […]

Glossary Check Depending on the circumstances, a make-or-break component in a workers' compensation claim can be whether the injured person in question was an "employee" under the state's workers' compensation law. As Simply Research subscribers […]

Labor Landscape American workers are less merry this holiday season as a new survey finds them anxious about job insecurity in the wake of a sluggish economy and a stark reality that  job security may […]

Compliance Corner If you're a self-insured employer in Oregon looking to stay on the right side of the law, you need to know what the state's reporting requirements are. That info is available to Simply […]

Glossary Check Quick quiz: Define "employee" for purposes of Delaware workers' compensation law. Once you've got it, do the same for "employer." While you might have a basic understanding of what those words mean, Simply […]

The Trained A-Eye A recent study by Carnegie Mellon University, conducted in collaboration with Salesforce, has found that artificial intelligence agents are currently unable to reliably complete most office tasks, with failure rates approaching 70 […]

Article 4 – The Employer’s Perspective  There’s a classic learning activity used widely in schools and organizations in which a teacher or facilitator asks a group to watch a short video. Each attendee is then […]