Editor’s Note

​​​​​​​An HR professional wears several hats — one of which may be payroll administrator. This includes processing payroll, tracking vacation or sick time, answering payroll-related questions, and finding and solving payroll errors.

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Research Report Summary: The HR Compliance Business Impact Report

Maintaining compliance and managing risk are among the toughest challenges that HR professionals face, especially those working within large organizations that have global operations and a complex workforce.

Research Report Summary: Employee Lifecycle Management

Human resources (HR) professionals often view various HR functions through a larger employee-lifecycle-management lens. This entails looking at the management of employees from the time they are first recruited to the time they leave the organization.

Featured Research: 4 Ways to Improve Your Candidate Experience

In a market hungry for talent, competition for top-notch candidates is fierce. In order to recruit stellar contenders, recruiters and HR managers must first know how to communicate effectively with them. First impressions are important. If the initial communication with an applicant isn’t satisfactory, it can hurt their overall candidate experience with your company.

A Class Waiver Can Be A Condition Of Employment

There is no longer any reason under the law why an employer cannot require its employees to waive the ability to bring a class or collective action under federal, state, and local employment laws.

Business Lessons From A Busy Flu Season: Take steps now to minimize the financial toll of flu

In business, there are many things you can predict and forecast with some degree of analytical certainty; and that information often guides future planning and preparation. Despite it being a known event each year, flu season catches many businesses off guard and unprepared. But even though we know flu season happens annually, some years such as this take us all by surprise.

Data Overload: Reasons why storing too much employee data can cause you more harm than good

Companies shouldn’t store irrelevant HR data within an employee’s record. This is partly because in order to do so under GDPR, you would need to obtain informed, freely given consent. So how do you get that consent?

Gender Pay Gap Is NOT The Same As Pay Equity: Why the USA chose not to mandate pay reporting

Gender pay reporting legislation by Government Equalities Office (GEO) in the UK requires employers with 250 or more employees to publish statutory calculations every year showing how large the pay gap is between their male and female employees.