Workplace Dress Codes: What’s Allowed?
If you own a business or are a Human Resources manager, you know that establishing and enforcing a dress code is not the easiest feat. It becomes even harder during the “dog days” summer months, when we are used to seeing the masses clad in tank tops, shorts, and sandals. In the age of the casualization of dress in the workplace, there’s a fine line between allowing less formal clothing and making the office environment too breezy. Consider the following topics when you are creating or revising a dress code policy:
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Gender Pay Inequality Lawsuits Proving Expensive for Companies
Recent headlines out of Hollywood have shed light on an ongoing struggle in the workplace. When it was made known that Michelle Williams was paid less than 1% of her costar, Mark Wahlberg’s, whopping $1.5 million salary for the reshoot of scenes, outcry from industry peers and the general public put employers under a microscope for double-standard practices and gender pay inequality.
Just how secure is your employee data?
The last few years can easily be defined as the start of a new era – the era of the data breach. And unfortunately we’ve only just entered this tumultuous period.
Sophisticated technology is regularly introduced into an arena driven by artificial intelligence, complex algorithms, and a matrix of shrouded code. However, you can be sure of one thing – hackers will up their own game to break or bypass this code.