Supreme Court To Hear Three Cases of Importance to HR

  The Supreme Court is back in session.  Three cases of importance to Human Resources professionals bear watching: Lawson v. FMR LLC (Fidelity Investments) Lawson v. FMR LLC asks the Supreme Court to determine whether an employee of a privately-held contractor or...

Let’s Hear It For Unglamorous First Jobs

    I recently spoke with a college student interested in a career in HR who asked me which job I had held in the past that led to my promotion to Global Vice President of Human Resources.  I replied “Every job I ever had before I got into HR.” My first paying job was...

ACA Enrollment Launch: A View From the Trenches

This cartoon by Rich Ramirez pretty much sums up my experience today trying to sign up for a plan in the Indiana Health Insurance Market Place yesterday.  Anybody not downing Administration Kool-Aid like a group of college students slamming down Red Bull in advance of...

Ready or Not, ACA Health Insurance Market Places Open Today

Today ends all of the suspense surrounding the health plans and costs available to citizens as the health insurance market places open for business.  I expect a muted start for a variety of reasons: 1) The most frequent query on the healthcare.gov website through...