Human Resources
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Passion to serve drives culture at not-for-profitsJan 21, 2021 12:00 am - What makes a not-for-profit organization successful? Passion, commitment, dedicated volunteers, staff and donors. Work can be challenging without passion for, or a belie...
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Give the gift of graceJan 21, 2021 12:00 am - As a child, my first memories of the word "grace" were before meals and during weddings and funerals when the hymn Amazing Grace was played. As an adult, I began to hea...
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Office holiday parties are transformed this year
Dec 20, 2020 5:16 am - To put it mildly, no one feels much like celebrating 2020. Between public health, economic and unemployment crises, office holiday parties - which face mixed reactions i...
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When a business owner dies without a succession plan, everyone is thrown into turmoil
Dec 06, 2020 5:15 am - Q: I work for a very small luxury travel agency that was already suffering due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The owner of the company recently passed away, and we are heartb...
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Pandemic creating difficult situations for employersNov 19, 2020 10:00 pm - The COVID-19 pandemic has created some tricky situations for employers to navigate, perhaps none more difficult than the politics. That was just one issue addressed in T...
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You deserve a work-life balance, even if you're child-free in a pandemic
Nov 15, 2020 5:10 am - Q: I'm the reader who wrote about being a weary child-free worker in a federal workplace where parents were being allowed full pay for reduced hours. Many of my co-worke...
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Pandemic firings lead to wave of bias claims from parents
Nov 14, 2020 5:25 am - Parents who've lost their jobs during the pandemic are driving a surge of litigation, alleging their employers discriminated against them for taking care of their kids w...
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Mothers are being driven out of the workforce in droves
Nov 08, 2020 5:26 am - When they met as students in Chicago, 20 years ago, Vondetta Taylor and Jennifer Anderson were all aspiration. Taylor was training to be a chef. Anderson was working tow...
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In a pandemic, every day is bring-your-child-to-work day
Nov 07, 2020 5:22 am - Years before "Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day" became a thing, my dad occasionally brought me to his office as the need arose. There was something a bit thrillin...
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Analysis: Uber's ballot victory doesn't fix gig economy's big problem
Nov 07, 2020 5:20 am - Uber Technologies and Lyft won a big victory on a state ballot measure that could have threatened their businesses by changing their relationship with workers. But this ...