Is HR Ready for Strategic Workforce Planning?

Over the next few months, we'll be taking a close look at the concept of strategic workforce planning (SWP). This is an emerging area in HR and there's a lot to learn. At the most basic level, this type of planning has always played a role in the employment sphere. For example, HR has traditionally [...]

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Overview of Strategic Workforce Planning Part 1

The Texas State Auditor’s Office workforce planning guide has a lot more to offer than the basics we looked at last week. So, let’s continue perusing the guide to see what specific steps they recommend taking in the process of Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP). Communication about Value Before an SWP initiative can get off the [...]

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Employer Use of Private Employee Information

We’ve been looking at a lot of data privacy standards over the last few weeks. These various principles and guidelines offer a broad overview of industry best practices that can often be applied to workforce data. But the fact is that the employer/employee relationship remains fraught with boundary issues when it comes to collecting and [...]

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Safe Harbor Rules Help Employers Manage Multinational HR Data

As with many areas of government regulation, the European Union has more stringent rules than the U.S. regarding the privacy of personal data. The EU Directive on Data Protection includes privacy principles that are similar in many ways to the GAPP we’ve discussed in previous posts. However, they are backed by the law in the [...]

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Why Internal HR Compliance Matters

At Emerald Software Group, we place a high value on ensuring our products support compliance with external regulations at both the state and federal level. However, that's not the only area where you should be concerned about consistency in your HR processes. What Might Happen If Steps are Skipped? KPA, a risk management and compliance [...]

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Overview of Strategic Workforce Planning Part 1

Last week, we talked a little about Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) and how it is changing the way HR does business. Today, let's take a look at one institution that has been using workforce planning for quite some time. The state of Texas requires that all state agencies (except for educational facilities) must use strategic [...]

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Safe Harbor Rules – Part 2

Last week, we started looking at Safe Harbor data privacy principles and the purpose they serve in helping U.S. employers comply with EU privacy laws. The principles themselves are fairly straightforward as they apply to the workforce. They include the following: Notice & Choice – Employers must notify job candidates, new hires, and employees when [...]

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AICPA Introduces New Data Center Standards

Effective in June of 2011, the old SAS 70 auditing standards are being replaced with the SSAE 16. This new standard has been developed to closely align with the international version (ISAE 3402) that is being rolled out concurrently. Why the change now? Old Standards Created Too Many Loopholes One reason is that the previous [...]

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Onboarding Compliance Specialist

Keeping up with what’s going on in onboarding compliance always brings up some interesting search results on Google. Right now, there are some employers specifically seeking to hire onboarding compliance specialists. Let’s take a look at what these HR professionals do. Here’s an excerpt from one employer’s recent job posting: “This position supports the new [...]

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U.S. Workplace Privacy Laws

The United States has no legislation that’s really comparable to the EU Privacy Directive. Instead, various aspects of privacy are covered by separate rules. For example, the healthcare industry is bound to comply with HIPAA. Information collected by federal agencies is subject to the Privacy Act of 1974. Financial institutions are each governed by different [...]

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