What Does Working From Home Mean for Workplace Romance?
There’s a fine line between acceptable workplace romance and acts that violate policy or create potential liability for the company. That’s where HR steps in with workplace dating and relationship policies, stopping unwelcomed advances and putting clear limits and expectations in policies that deal with coworker relationships, especially with employees in the same reporting structure or, even worse, between managers and employees.
Anti-bullying Programs for Schools: How to Protect Children as a Parent
We talk a lot about what schools can do to improve their anti-bullying programs, but it never crossed my mind that parents play a role in ensuring their children aren’t instigators. There’s only so much a school or a third-party vendor like us can do. Of course, it’s not our place as a software provider to address this problem, but we must keep the whole picture in mind when we’re considering how we can play a part in eliminating bullying.
How to Defend Your Company Against a Discrimination or Harassment Lawsuit
Risk management is fundamental to every organization, and those risks can come from anywhere. Environmental disasters, security breaches, third-party vendors, you name it. But one of the most dangerous risks to a company comes from the inside in the form of a wayward employee.
The CROWN Act: Inclusive Dress Codes Encourage Workplace Diversity
If your company is in a state where the CROWN Act has already been passed, you need to seriously review your dress code and ensure that hair discrimination will not slide. You may want to consider it even if it isn’t yet law in your state because the fight against hair discrimination is gaining momentum federally and may become your reality soon.
Start Summer Employees Off on the Right Foot with Compliance Training
Ensuring summer employees and managers receive proper training is essential to creating a good seasonal work experience and keeping an organization compliant with state and federal laws.
How to Make Your LGBTQ+ Employees Feel Welcome at Work
Make sure your organization is doing its part to be clear about LGBTQ+ support and acceptance, insists on employees being respectful, and has the tools in place to help employees when inequities come to light.
When Dinosaurs Wore Suits
Those who believe sexual harassment is acceptable, a.k.a. dinosaurs in suits, aren’t extinct. But it’s a new day now, and every business has a moral obligation to maintain a harassment-free workplace.
What SHOULD You Be Thinking About as We Ring in 2022?
The internet is full of articles and blog posts by compliance and HR professionals listing their “Top 5 Predictions for 2022,” but have you given thought to work from home tax and business license implications, updates to liability insurance, and reimagined perks and benefits?
HR Predictions for 2022
2021 saw disruptions for many, many industries, which means 2022 will continue to require companies and HR professionals to change. Here are a few HR trends that experts have predicted for 2022: rising internal mobility, revamping employee perks and benefits, focus on diversity and inclusion initiatives, and a continuation of remote and flexible work.
Bring Back the Soul Cap
I don’t often blog on issues of social justice, but all too often issues of social justice cross lines into issues of ethics and compliance, and in this case specifically create unnecessary barriers to a discrimination-free environment and instead institutionalize discriminatory practices.
Age Discrimination in the Workplace: Who Bears the Burden of Proof?
Companies of all shapes and sizes have employees report issues in the workplace. These can range from sexual harassment, to workplace safety, to misuse of company resources. Some of these investigations are straightforward, and some of them not so much. Regardless, companies need to address and resolve a reported issue before it escalates and is out of their hands entirely. In the out-of-hand cases…
Top 6 HR Trends for 2021
2020 has been a busy year for HR professionals. So much has changed in such a short period of time. 2021 is fast approaching, and here are a few anticipated trends for HR in 2021.
November 20th Matters
November 20th matters. And it should matter to ethics and compliance professionals because it marks a day where many have not stepped up to their responsibilities as the ethical and moral center of their companies.
ETHIX360 Signs ParityPledge®
ETHIX360 announced today that it has committed to both the Corporate ParityPledge® in Support of Women and the Corporate ParityPledge® in Support of People of Color.
Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Not Only Good for Workplace Culture; It’s Mandated
Sexual harassment affects more than just the employees involved — it affects your entire organization. Besides causing emotional stress, decreased productivity and performance, lawsuits resulting from sexual harassment are stressful and expensive.
Why Do People Hate Their Jobs?
I saw a Gallup poll about a year ago that concluded 30 percent of U.S. workers are engaged with their jobs, another 50 percent are “non-engaged,” and an astonishing 20 percent “actively disengaged.” So people not only hate their jobs — they’re completely checking out.
2 More Examples of the #MeToo Movement's Impact on Unethical Business Practices
Google and Under Armour are just two recent examples of companies where the voices of their employees are driving meaningful cultural change. Additionally, the general public is putting pressure on companies to adapt, drive real corporate change and not merely make empty promises.
What Has One Year of #MeToo Taught Us About Preventing Workplace Sexual Harassment?
On the anniversary of the sexual harassment accusations against Harvey Weinstein that sparked the #MeToo movement, ETHIX360 takes a look back at the statistics over the past year & the changes in company culture.
What Does Workplace Sexual Harassment Say About Your Corporate Culture?
This attitude of “it won’t happen to me… to us” is often referred to as optimism bias. People blindly believe that “it” won’t happen to them or “it” wouldn’t happen at their company. And unfortunately, the “it” within many companies can be the denial that workplace sexual harassment would ever occur within their organization.
Sexual Harassment Training: 5 Benefits of Training All Employees, Not Just Managers
In today’s complex #MeToo environment, it’s essential that employees at every level and location understand how to recognize unacceptable behavior, how to report it and how to respond to and support co-workers and colleagues who may encounter it. Anti-harassment and anti-discrimination training, especially when tailored to your specific culture, industry and workforce, can be a strategic tool to educate, influence, and motivate positive behavior and change across your organization. That’s something that benefits everyone.