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Interviews with more than a dozen corporate legal and compliance experts suggest that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has a high bar to clear to prove companies' diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) policies violate discrimination law, Reuters reports. New EEOC chair Andrea Lucas told Reuters last week that the agency plans to launch inquiries into corporate DEI practices to find out whether employers made race or sex-based decisions - but former EEOC chair Jenny Yang says it still has to build a case and convince the courts that a company's programs run afoul of the law.
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UK
Law firm Freshfields is providing resilience training to Gen Z students at top UK universities. The workshops focus on essential skills for managing stress and receiving feedback in a high-pressure environment, and are designed to help prospective lawyers "build key resilience skills." A Freshfields spokesman said the sessions aim to "reflect the realities of legal work." Addleshaw Goddard also plans to deliver sessions aimed at building resilience and wellbeing, while Clyde & Co is set to overhaul its resilience training programme after a firm-wide review.
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Europe
Residents in the Eindhoven area say they are worried about ASML's plan to add 20,000 employees in the region, effectively doubling its local workforce. The chipmaker will begin construction on a new campus near Eindhoven Airport in March. While the expansion promises economic benefits, locals fear rising housing costs, healthcare strain, and worsening traffic. A survey by Newcom for broadcaster Omroep Brabant revealed only 40% of residents support the expansion, down from nearly half last year. Many residents want ASML to invest in local housing and infrastructure as part of its growth.
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Middle East
As Christmas approaches, many companies in the UAE are introducing internal leave policies for all employees on Christmas Day and Boxing Day. The shift reflects changing workplace norms and aims to provide employees with more time to rest. A Dubai-based HR consultant observes that granting fixed days off can be easier for companies than managing a high volume of overlapping annual leave requests in December.
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How HR is Tackling Long Covid?
Fingers remain tightly crossed around the world that the rampant hospitalization and fatality stage of the Covid-19 pandemic has generally peaked. Vaccination programmes are accelerating, and restrictions are gradually being lifted...
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ESG Is Not Just Another Name For CSR
Back in the distant 1980s if you wanted to demonstrate your environmental and ethical credentials it was sufficient to shop at or purchase shares in retailer The Body Shop. The charismatic Anita Roddick, founder of the “hippy” tinged retail chain, heralded a new age of environmental concern, caring capitalism and corporate awareness that evolved into what became known as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). CSR was much talked about and lauded, but in reality often ended up being a lot of a hot air (excuse the pun) and often never progressed much beyond a footnote in the annual report.
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Have Older Workers Paid The Highest COVID-19 Price?
Across the world the pandemic is slowly but surely moving into its next phase. Recovery beckons. As furlough schemes across the U.S. and U.K. are being wound down, restrictions eased or lifted, and workforces moving back up the gears, early signs indicate that older employees are more likely to be casualties of the pandemic aftermath than their younger colleagues. Here at the we have witnessed an increasing number of stories supporting the growing belief that older workers are disproportionately paying the highest Covid-19 price.
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Bosses. What's not to like? Plenty, say employees
“You’ll never have another boss like me, someone who’s basically a chilled-out entertainer”
So said, David Brent, the fictional manager of Slough-based paper merchant Wernham Hogg in the seminal TV comedy The Office. Ricky Gervais’s portrayal of Brent as a flawed, narcissistic, incompetent, and deluded manager was so well observed that many (including me) believed it was a genuine fly-on-the-wall documentary when they alighted accidentally on the first ever episode.
Rolling with the Payroll
To mark National Payroll Week the team at the Human Times has provided some insight into the industry that we hope you’ll find useful.
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