Innovation can be messy. From smartphones and social media to workplace harassment scandals, cyber security threats, and investor fraud, Silicon Valley has been at the forefront of numerous technological breakthroughs as well as legal and social issues. There’s a reason—plenty of reasons, in fact—that turtlenecked founders from Mountain View earn as many eyerolls as venture […]
Get out your number two pencils, it’s Pop Quiz time. Here on the blog, we’ll be conducting regular pop quizzes on various workforce compliance topics. Each quiz question is adapted from actual material in our training catalog. See if you can answer these real compliance questions correctly! Today’s topic is discipline. Do you know the […]
On October 9th, the strictest sexual harassment prevention regulations in the history of the United States will go into effect in New York. But the Empire State is just one jurisdiction among many. Harassment is not limited to New York, and neither is the wave of #MeToo-motivated legislation holding employers to greater standards of accountability […]
Think about the worst job you ever had. When did you realize it was so bad? If you’re like me, you may not have referred to the job as “the worst” until months after you left it, but you had your suspicions early on. For one, it’s rare for working conditions change so drastically that […]
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Fraud flood finds financiers floundering! Portfolio performance poised to plummet! Circumspect lenders spending lots on loss prevention tech! For some reason, I can’t help but hear an old-timely newsie in my head whenever I read about consumer lending fraud. Perhaps it’s because in an industry as sophisticated as auto […]
Consider this your 3-week notice. On October 9th, the strictest sexual harassment prevention regulations in the history of the United States will go into effect in New York. To prepare to meet their expanded legal obligations, employers who operate in New York have spent the last few weeks and months updating their employee training programs. […]
Feeling stressed at work? I’m willing to bet you aren’t as stressed as a warehouse manager for a national grocery transportation and logistics company. Imagine overseeing 800 employees and 700 trucks coming in and out of your facility every day. Your job is to not only ensure massive shipments of perishable goods are packed correctly […]
After he was hired, David White reduced Campbell’s injury rate by 90%. His workforce health and safety secret? Executive accountability and tone at the top. If you work as a manager at a soup factory, there are times when it makes sense to tell an employee to “can it.” A conversation about workforce health and safety is […]
Our partners from Hudson Cook stopped by The Smart Compliance Blog to keep us up to date on the latest interpretation and impacts of the TCPA. Here’s what they had to say… “Direct drop” voicemail services can deliver a prerecorded message to a consumer’s voicemail without calling the consumer’s phone number. For years, companies have […]
Believe it or not, it’s been over a decade since the last global economic crisis. Remember the collapse of the United States financial and subprime mortgage markets in 2007 and 2008? Remember thinking we were entering a period of decline comparable to the 1930s—or worse? These days, judging by indicators such as employment and GDP […]
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