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“Equity,” before it joined “diversity” and “inclusion” as a term for ensuring full representation among historically disadvantaged communities, long referred to financial assets that drive the creation of wealth. As it happens, financial equity is vitally important for achieving inclusive equity and assuring upward mobility for racial and ethnic minorities, according to an expert panel

​Stumbling over the pronunciation of an employee’s, client’s or customer’s name can be more than a workplace faux pas. When it occurs repeatedly—even when the person provides the correct pronunciation—it becomes a microaggression, according to experts, and can lead to people being excluded in the workplace. A recent NameCoach online survey of 1,060 individuals in

​As of Oct. 15, Italy not only has mandatory vaccinations against COVID-19 for all those working in certain fields—a requirement already in place—but a new universal, mandatory use of the COVID-19 Green Pass in all remaining industries. Italy’s Green Pass—a domestic COVID-19 passport that indicates if someone is fully vaccinated or has recently tested negative

​In January 2022, foreign nationals crossing over land into the United States from Canada and Mexico for work or business will be required to be fully vaccinated. The new rules from the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will amend land-travel restrictions first imposed by the Trump administration in March 2020. Land-border crossings into the U.S.

​As the COVID-19 pandemic ebbs in India and companies prepare models for a hybrid work environment, they are looking to technology to find ways to keep a distributed workforce productive and connected. How technology has already helped in this and how else HR can put it to good use, were among the topics discussed by

​Employers in the United Kingdom that require personal protective equipment (PPE) on the jobsite will need to supply the health and safety gear to a broader worker population under proposed changes to the country’s 1992 law governing PPE in the workplace. The change may affect small and medium-sized employers more than large employers, legal experts

​A recent study found that employees with disabilities often believe they don’t have the same opportunities for advancement within their company as do employees without disabilities. Overall, employees with disabilities are less confident their skills will be used effectively or that their employer will trust them to use their own judgment when performing their job,

​Gero Bongiorno works as the head of research and development at an industrial machinery company in Milan, which is preparing for Italy’s Green Pass for workers. As the Oct. 15 implementation date for the Green Pass approaches, Bongiorno isn’t worried about his own direct reports, who are fully vaccinated. But there are other people in

​Recently an HR director told me about resistance she experienced from a senior executive toward the company’s new diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) initiative. The executive made comments disparaging the new practice of adding gender pronouns to employees’ e-mail signature block. I suggested that these comments created an opportunity for a one-on-one conversation. “Rather than

​National Coming Out Day is observed on Oct. 11 to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ+) people “coming out of the closet” and being their authentic selves in public, with friends and family, and at work. The driving belief behind the day of awareness is that as more people reveal their identity and

​During the last general election, the U.K. government included a manifesto pledge to make flexible work the default position unless employers have a good reason not to make it so. In 2019, the government launched the Flexible Working Taskforce—a partnership across government departments, business groups, trade unions and charities to encourage employers to consider advertising

China’s new data privacy law, the Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), was passed on Aug. 20 and will go into effect on Nov. 1. It’s the latest in a series of laws designed to protect the personal data of individuals and increase data security in China. Companies, especially multinationals, should make sure they are in

​Return-to-office policies were a hot topic this past summer as employers were busy preparing for the fall re-opening of workplaces. The question of the accompanying health-and-safety measures remains a tricky one to deal with for global organizations. This article focuses on testing and vaccination protocols. A lot has happened since April: The EU Green Pass

​The Biden administration plans to rescind the COVID-19 travel bans imposed in 2020 and replace them with vaccination and testing requirements to enter the U.S., beginning in November. Claire Nilson, head of the global mobility and immigration team in the London office of Faegre Drinker, explained that since early in the pandemic, travelers who had

​An employer’s termination of an employee for violating policy after receiving prior discipline was enough to establish a legitimate nondiscriminatory reason for discharge, according to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The plaintiff worked as a private fleet safety manager for the employer in Iowa. In January 2016, the plaintiff was issued a third

​The bewildering array of activities, initiatives and programs designed to help employers achieve diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) in the workplace can be focused and prioritized by following a simple model. It was developed 25 years ago by Dave Ulrich, a human resource thought leader and professor at the University of Michigan Ross School of

​Ontario’s Divisional Court—a branch of the Superior Court of Justice in Canada’s largest province—unanimously ruled in June that more employers in Ontario will now have to take their global payroll into account in determining an employee’s entitlement to severance pay. According to the Ontario Employment Standards Act 2000 (ESA), employers in the province with a

​Marlo J. Gaal, SHRM-SCP, is chief talent officer at Chicago-based Ariel Investments, a Black-owned mutual fund investment firm. As businesses began prioritizing diversity, equity and inclusion (DE&I) strategies over the past 18 months, Gaal received inquiries from HR colleagues about “all things DE&I,” save one at the heart of Ariel’s business. “To be honest, I

​With people living longer and being in generally better shape in their golden years than their parents and grandparents were, people over age 50 represent a major talent pool for the IT industry. According to the Urban Institute, only 12.9 percent of adults ages 65 and older have a job. With high demand for IT

​Newly hired employees who identify as LGBTQ+ typically will come out during their first year at an organization or not at all, according to a new global report. “For most LGBTQ+ people, the first year in a new job is critical in the coming-out journey,” Boston Consulting Group (BCG) researchers noted in Why the First Year