Workplace Flexibility
SHRM Launches Comprehensive “Workplace Flexibility” Effort
On May 7, SHRM launched a comprehensive public policy campaign to prompt a new dialogue – and a new approach – to workplace flexibility and paid leave policy. [ More ]
Pension Funding
SHRM Urges Treasury to Provide Flexibility for Pension Funding
On Friday, May 8, 2009, SHRM, along with 209 other associations and individual businesses, sent a letter to the Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner asking the Treasury Department to consider making regulatory changes to provide additional flexibility to organizations struggling to fund their retirement pension plans in today’s challenging economic climate. [ More ]
Workplace Enforcement
Obama Administration Requests Additional Monies for DOL Enforcement Personnel
In testimony before the House and Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education Appropriations Subcommittees earlier this week, Labor Secretary Hilda Solis defended the Obama administration’s increased budget request of $104.5 billion for the Department – part of which would go to fund nearly 500 additional full-time enforcement personnel in the area of worker safety and wage and hour issues. [ More ]
Member Advocacy
SHRM Members Head to “The Hill”
Last week, SHRM hosted a Day Inside the Beltway (DITB) event for members from three Northern Virginia chapters. [ More ]
SHRM Annual Conference
SHRM Launches New Blog for Its 2009 Annual Conference
SHRM recently launched a new blog to help HR professionals prepare for its Annual Conference and Exposition in New Orleans, June 28 – July 1. The conference is the largest gathering of HR professionals in the world! [ More ]
A Brief Word from SSA
Social Security Administration’s SSN Verification Process is Changing
Employers and third parties acting on behalf of employers can now verify employee Social Security numbers (SSNs) over the telephone 24 hours a day, 7 days a week by using the Social Security Administration’s automated “Telephone Number Employer Verification” (TNEV) service. [ More ]
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