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According to a press release from the EEOC, a North Carolina retail furniture franchise is being sued for pregnancy discrimination. A complaint was filed regarding the company and employee Chantoni McBryde on June 1, 2015.  The company assigned McBryde to work as a shop apprentice in the company’s temporary training facility located in Dunn, North …

When the U.S. unemployment rate hit 4.9 percent in January 2016 – some of the best numbers since the start of the Great Recession eight years ago – it seemed like great news. A new discussion began among economists and the media as to whether or not the U.S. could be getting closer to what …

1Anyone who is an HR professional can tell you, there’s a lot to being successful in the job. One of the most important traits for anyone in the human resources field is patience. Here’s just a few of the challenges HR professionals have to deal with. 1. Long Lead Times for Hiring the Right Candidate: …

What goes into making a perfect job ad? That’s what an article at SHRM.org talks about this week. At least one company, Appcast, says that their data shows a 90-97% abandonment rate on most job portal sites. That’s a huge abandonment rate! And one of the big reasons for it are poorly-crafted job postings. The …