Defining Grooming Standards in the Workplace: Rights and Responsibilities

For over 50 years, the Supreme Court has relied on the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to clarify and strengthen its definition of sexual harassment. Even today, it’s clear some employees remain confused about what is and isn’t sexual harassment and how they’re protected when reporting incidents. Between 2018 and 2021, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission received nearly 30,000 charges of alleged sexual harassment. Sexual harassment drives preventable business costs: Human costs in low morale and high turnover; financial costs of legal fees, settlements or damages; and lost productivity in both front-line employees and executives. Avoiding these costs requires a comprehensive sexual harassment policy that is regularly reviewed and updated.

L&D leaders today are faced with three main challenges when it comes to upskilling their workforce for future survival: Identifying and cataloguing the skills that their employees possess Determining the skills the organisation needs to ‘build’ or ‘buy’ to create the workforce they need for today and the future Creating a self-driven learning ecosystem to bridge the skills gap Whilst these issues face every L&D department, many larger cash-rich enterprises are tackling this challenge head-on to stay competitive, leaving other businesses with a looming problem for the upskilling, reskilling and cross-skilling of their workforce. This can make recruiting and retaining staff a real struggle.

Is your pipeline solid? Don’t be so sure of the answer, not with one of your biggest sources of rising leaders working parents rethinking jobs. Women in particular are at risk, with 40 percent ready to leave because of burnout, and more than half planning an exit within two years.1 For employers, it’s a potentially cataclysmic development, informed by two years of colliding work and personal lives that’s driving people to fundamentally change their relationship with work and leave for jobs that offer the support they need. For top employers like Bloomberg and Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, it’s a moment of action. What are they doing? In this program, you will hear from both about the challenges they’re facing, solutions they’re putting into action, and how they’re effectively rewriting talent strategy to attract and retain working parents.

Employee burnout is on the rise, and it’s taking away your top talent. The latest research from the Limeade Institute has found that burnout happens when someone is engaged but has low well-being. This burnout can lead to exhaustion, cynicism and ultimately employee turnover. The good news is, there are steps that employees, managers and organizations can take to prevent burnout, as well as steps they can take to help employees recover from burnout.