Seventeen state attorneys general say in a letter to the Labor Department an effort to reverse a 2011 ban on pooling employee tips might have violated the Administrative Procedure Act. The letter accuses the department of disregarding the act based on reports of concealed data indicating workers might lose billions of dollars in tips. The Hill (2/5)
Top Workplaces Don’t Leave Culture to Chance Culture is the only sustainable competitive advantage. This e-book clearly shows the benefits of intentionally building your culture and explains how you can unleash the potential of your people and inspire high performance. Download the e-book now.
Learn How to Become a Leader Are you a professional seeking the skills to become a leader? Earn a Master of Professional Studies in Psychology of Leadership from renowned researchers and practitioners of leadership. This degree will examine the role of leadership across many organizations. Learn More.
Wellness advocates push back against study finding programs don't work Wellness advocates are pushing back against a study that found employee wellness programs were not effective, saying it focused on first-year claims and cost results that did not reflect other benefits the initiatives provide. LuAnn Heinen of the National Business Group on Health said a lack of first-year savings should not be surprising and noted a return on investment in smoking-cessation programs was seen after repeated or unlimited attempts to stop smoking over months and years. Society for Human Resource Management online (2/5)
Path to Workforce
Program ups grad rates among low-income parents A new study shows that 52% of low-income parents enrolled in the Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative between 2006 and 2013 earned a community college certificate or degree compared with 24% of community college students not in the program. Some of the largest gains were made among African-American and Latino students, the data showed. The Hechinger Report (2/5)
The HR Leader
HubSpot uses feedback to improve diversity HubSpot combats bias by using employee surveys to get feedback and publishing data on its diversity, says Katie Burke, the company's chief people officer. "What we added as a result of that employee feedback was more sessions with our leadership team where employees could ask tough questions, where they could share things that were top of mind for them that we call spotlight sessions," Burke says. TechTarget (free registration) (2/2)
For the faithful, the patient, the hermetically pure, all the important things in this world -- not life and death, perhaps, which are merely words, but the important things -- work out rather beautifully.
