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Employers Beware: There Are Rising Legal Risks Of Rigid RTO Policies

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The insistence of employers on a full return to the office, without considering individual circumstances, could lead to a surge in legal issues — particularly discrimination claims. Are employers walking into a legal storm by enforcing rigid return-to-office (RTO) mandates? In a lawsuit against Electric Boat Corp.,

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A Single Disaster Kills 40% Of Businesses — Stop Putting Off Contingency Planning

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A number of these disruptions occur as natural phenomena and are often referred to as “Acts of God” in the legal field. Defined in Black’s Law Dictionary, the most widely referenced legal dictionary in the U.S., Defined in Black’s Law Dictionary, the most widely referenced legal dictionary in the U.S., What is a Migration Plan?

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How to Have Difficult Financial Planning Conversations with Aging Parents

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In some cases, they opt to organize family meetings in which everyone can be clear about responsibilities such as who will oversee health and legal decisions for parents, parental wishes for living arrangements, their available resources including various types of insurance, and how inheritances will be apportioned.

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Discover 5 Tips To Mitigate Workplace Harassment And Avoid Toxic Organizations

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As an employee, it’s important to feel safe and secure in all workplace environments. . As an employee, it’s important to feel safe and secure in all workplace environments. Know that you have a right to a safe work environment — physically and emotionally. Dr. Laura McGuire: 1. Dr. Laura McGuire: 1.

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People are simply ignoring bans on AI use at work

Workplace Insight

A new poll from comms firm Definition suggests that over half of employed UK adults (54 percent) use tools like ChatGPT at work, despite 25 percent of businesses banning or significantly limiting its use. But worryingly, only a few can access their own private environment AI tool (6 percent).

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The Perils Of Ignoring Sexual Harassment Training

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Sexual harassment is clearly harmful to wellbeing and productivity, and when unchecked, it can create a toxic environment that no employee wants to work within. It also found that more men than women reported taking legal action when they experienced harassment (but were less likely to do so when the perpetrator was someone more senior).

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BCO’s new research agenda sets out a new vision for the office

Workplace Insight

The publication aims to lay the groundwork for a new vision of the office as an economically productive, occupier-first, technologically enabled and sustainable part of our built environment.

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