Celeste Blackburn SPHR
Celeste Blackburn is the Managing Editor of Diversity Insight, Technology for HR, HR Insight, and 50 Employment Laws in 50 States. She has written about human resources for a variety of publications, including Basic Training for Supervisors and Frontline Supervision, as well as writing and editing a series of White Papers covering employment trends and developments. Before coming to BLR, she was the Business Editor for The Daily Herald in Columbia, Tennessee. Celeste earned her bachelor’s degree from David Lipscomb University and a master’s from Middle Tennessee State University, where she also taught writing.
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What about creamer? I rarely drink coffee, but when I do it's because I'm really tired and it has to have lots of milk and sugar. So when I see a flavor of creamer I like, I grab some and hoard them in my desk until the next time I drink coffee.
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50 Employment Laws in 50 States (click here if you are an HR Laws subscriber or click here if you would like to learn more about the book) says this about "use it or lose it" policies in Nebraska: “Use it or lose it” policy: No laws prohibit such p…
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Carrie, I know your big question is whether the holistic doctor's prescription means you have to accommodate the employee's aromatherapy. While we don't have an article that addresses that issue, I did find this article http://www.hrhero.com/hl/art…
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David, You make a very good point--applicants can lie just as easily on a paper resume as an electronic one, so you might as well have an ATS help you filter through the stack if you've got a bunch of resumes (and a lot of other HR things to do). …
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There's so much in this one article that it's hard to figure out where to start--the terrible policy, the bathroom humor, the puns! 1. It's HR's job to hand our rewards or discipline based on bathroom behavior. It's like the cliche' of HR being m…
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[quote=NaeNae55;725607]You don't have an option for : yes, if it's free and not tough since I already went through tough to get my HRCI certification. That would be my choice. [/quote] NaeNae, I think you might get your wish. Here is the second art…
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[FONT=Tahoma]I wanted to add that we have a follow up to the first article coming out tomorrow. It clarifies that people with current HRCI certifications won't have to pay to take a new test. From the information we've received, it looks like they w…
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I can see both sides. It would be great to have two more hours to do what I want in every day. But it would be pretty hard to get everything done and the stress of making sure everything gets done in that time could add up.
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I did some digging and found some articles on our blogs that might help you. While the information we have focuses more on "English-only" requirements, you can still see how some of the guidance might apply to you. You can click on the headline for …
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I was in an office where a similar situation kept happening, except on the other side of the caffeine spectrum. People would make extra strong coffee. The coffee came in pre-measured packs, but some people would put in a pack and a half or two packs…
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Here is article we ran in [I]HR Hero Line[/I] that addresses these issues. It looks like you have to consider the employees' exempt/nonexempt classification as well as what is laid out in your policy [URL]http://bit.ly/SdTm4T[/URL] Here's another …
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Once again, the forum members have come through with great advice. Our [I]HR HeroLine[/I] article today is about nursing mothers' privacy rights. Employment law attorney Jeff Hurt addresses many aspects of the the law, including break length and whe…
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Oh no! I wish I had checked the forum while I was there. I would have loved to have met up! It was my first year at the conference and I was blown away. We put up pictures on the HR HeroLine blog taken at the booth of attendees answering the ques…
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Remember the Titans (It's our CEO Dan Oswald's favorite movie and [URL="http://blogs.hrhero.com/oswaldletters/2011/10/25/building-a-cohesive-team/"]he talks about it on his blog[/URL]) Field of Dreams Rudy Stand and Deliver The Right Stuff
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Our IT guys are on the ball this morning. Here is their suggestion: Some changes were made to the style of the navigation bar and sometimes browsers don't pick up the changes right away. Once you are on the page, reload or refresh the page. In …
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Dutch, I had that same issue a yesterday when I was working from home. Today in the office, I've opened the forum in both firefox and IE, and the page looks fine. I'm going to forward your comment and my experience on to our IT guys, and I'll let yo…
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You should check out our Technology for HR blog! Start with this post: Should Employers Monitor Employees' Facebook Walls? And then you check out other posts that talk about Facebook and other forms of social networking. I've been covering social …
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I'm not a Maryland employer, but I did a search on your Secretary of State's website and found this [URL]http://www.dsd.state.md.us/comar/SubtitleSearch.aspx?search=10.10.10.*[/URL] That appears to be the part of the code that you are looking for.…
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The OFCCP has proposed 503 Regulations that will affect federal contractors. We just published a free white paper about the regulations, "[URL="http://www.hrhero.com/whitepapers/index.cgi?pc=wpdhq&"]4 Ways Employers Will Likely Contest DOL…
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Dutch2's policy is great. Here are some posts from our tech blog that might help you with the issue, too: Mr. Butterfingers and Your Company's Equipment No Fair! That’s Private: Employee Perceptions About Privacy and Workplace Technology BYOD: Man…
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The NLRB released another memo of guidance on social media policies yesterday. 1 of the 7 policies reviewed passed the test because it provided examples of specific prohibited behavior and therefore couldn't be misunderstood to put overly broad rest…
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I love these breathless news stories about this issue that fail to include a single actual example of this happening. I think we have invented a new genre: the urban employment legend. "Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) says he'll introduce a fed…
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Make sure your social media policy references your discrimination, harassment, and other relevant policies. Remind employees that online behavior is held to the same standard as face-to-face behavior.
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I think Coffee and Sharon are right on point with their comments about an anonymous employee forum. I have one thing to add. I've participated in several forums, and I've noticed that anonymity brings out a nasty side in some people. They say thi…
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cnghr, Glad to know I'm not alone! Every once in a while, I'll slip and use some of our inner circle slang outside of the inner circle. Then I get the, "Aren't you supposed to be an editor?" blank stare. One example, most of my friends were born in…
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Let me just say, I make up words all the time -- with family and friends. It's fun and our own special language. And I get that "flustrated" has a good descriptive quality to it as a combo of flustered and frustrated. But you can't turn it in for …
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This is a subject that comes up here every now and again. My favorite "fix" I've seen posted (as an employee, not an HR person) is to withhold the supervisor's own review -- and subsequent pay raise -- until all of their reviews were done. Seems fai…
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Our CEO Dan Oswald wrote his column on the Oswald Letters blog this week about the ideas in the book that inspired this thread. For the blog post headline, he decided to go with the "%#*hole" spelling while spelling the word out in his post. [URL="h…
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I agree with jdarrough on people mixing up fewer and less and will add to that how "more" and "over" are often used interchangeably. When I was teaching freshman comp, I once had a student argue with me that flustrated was a word. I told her if she…
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One of my grandmother's used to say "colored." Growing up, I always thought that was terribly embarrassing because it sounded racist. But to her "colored" was meant in a respectful way because in her time (and where she grew up), that was the most…