Employee Engagement: Stop Measuring and Start Doing

Are employee retention, diversity hiring strategies, and competitive job markets keeping you and your CEO up at night? Not sure where to begin on your people analytics journey? Across businesses of all sizes, HR professionals are adopting an increasingly strategic role within their organization, driving data-driven decision making about their workforce through people analytics. To be a successful HR professional in a truly digital world, you need to understand what people analytics are, how they’re helping solve crucial business problems, and why HR needs to take a more strategic role in growing business.

Employees taking leave for medical reasons create a special challenge for employers, who must consider compliance with multiple employment laws, including FMLA, ADA, and workers' compensation. Laws may require employees to be reinstated after leave. It is often difficult to understand when the requirements of the law apply and how to handle the interplay of these laws and walk the tightrope of all the legal requirement. This information helps people responsible for administering leave and return-to-work programs to understand the leave and return from leave requirements and explains when and how to use fitness for duty or return-to-work evaluations, and tips and best practices for light duty work programs.

Organizations continue to face many challenges post-pandemic, such as retaining their existing workforce while continuing to make strides in organizational effectiveness.

There are many laws and rules that govern what happens when an employee takes a leave, or seems to be in need of taking such a leave. The federal Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 is the bible for any employer when considering its obligations and an employee's rights in leave scenarios, but other statutes must also be considered. What happens when an on-the-job injury is involved? What happens when the leave is triggered by a disability unrelated to the workplace (e.g. heart attack)?