Behind the Screen: How to Compliantly Hire Someone

Organisations are increasingly recognising the value of older workers in filling skills shortages and the benefits that having mixed-age teams can bring. Putting in place support mechanisms, such as having open discussions about people’s careers in later life, and making suitable job adaptations can help to ensure that the opportunities presented by having people working for longer are maximised.

Employers today are dealing with more than just a tight talent market, increased turnover and rising wages; the world of work has permanently changed —and so have candidate expectations. The demand for total talent has become more dynamic, and employers are leveraging seasonal and project-based hiring to reduce the time to mobilise internal and external workforces. Reviewing candidate experience through high-optimised talent acquisition technology, and the role of digital personas in the ongoing engagement of your workforce.

Employees have the right under the National Labor Relations Act to form together for their mutual aid and protection and to engage in concerted activity to better their working conditions or protest those conditions. Although these actions usually occur in a union setting, nonunion employees also enjoy these protections and rights. Additionally, although nonunion employers are not bound to or confined by a collective bargaining agreement, the implementation of certain employer policies may unintentionally (or otherwise) impact adversely upon the exercise of these federally protected rights. This topic will educate nonunion employers as to their obligations to their employees, what they can and cannot prohibit, how to be aware of when union organizers are making an effort to bring a union in and how to deal with that contingency.

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