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EEOC Debates Rights of Caregivers

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on April 22, 2009, released a document of best practices for employers who have workers with personal caregiving responsibilities.

The aim, EEOC Acting Chair Stuart J. Ishimaru said, is “educating employees, employers and policymakers about why caregiver discrimination matters and how to avoid it.” There is “a lot of movement,” he said, “to make the federal government a model employer for thinking about these issues.”

He hears constantly from employers asking for “some concrete examples of what [they] should be thinking about,” Ishimaru said. This document “continues a long line of technical assistance documents that the commission has turned out over the years.”

Read on about the 10 Best Practices.

Practical Advice From Your Servants!

As Swine Flu Spreads, What Should HR Do?

Even though the United States has declared a health emergency regarding the outbreak of swine flu and the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is encouraging everyone to take precautions, human resource executives and disaster preparedness experts are urging people not to panic.

That’s the advice Bonnie Daniels, SPHR, GPHR, is handing out to employees at MiTek Industries Inc., in Chesterfield, Mo., where she is vice president of human resources.

And if anyone should have a right to panic, it should be Daniels. She spoke to SHRM Online on April 28, 2009—her first day back at work after returning from a seven-day Caribbean cruise where the first port of call was Cozumel, Mexico.

“I’m not nervous at all,” said Daniels, a former member of the Society for Human Resource Management’s (SHRM) Employee Health, Safety and Security Special Expertise Panel. “I’m really not. I don’t feel bad. I don’t have a fever. I don’t feel nauseous. Honestly, I was in Cozumel for all of four hours.” She added that she’s more likely to have caught something from one of the 3,000 people on the ship than from anyone in Mexico.

To read more about how HR firms are handling swine flu, and for recommended resources containing swine flu facts and precautions, click here.