Latte makeup and the Thai dance challenge are fun TikTok trends, but they likely won’t change your career.

Hannah Williams, a Northern Virginia-based content creator, uses the platform to advocate for pay transparency and give advice to help women negotiate a better salary through the viral account and business Salary Transparency Street that she founded with her now husband.

She recently sat down with HR Brew to chat about how she became interested in pay transparency, what she’s heard from HR professionals about the trend, and the cultural shift she’s anticipating.

Finding her worth. Williams didn’t set out to be a pay transparency advocate when she graduated from Georgetown University in 2019. While working as a data analyst for a government consultancy, a colleague left the team, and she found herself doing the work of two people and making far less than the market rate for her role.

Keep reading here.—KP

When work is simple, good things happen. It’s a fact of any office, and it especially rings true in the ever-evolving world of HR. If your people ops run smoothly, your company is gonna follow suit.

That’s why you need to up your HCM game with Paylocity. Their modern HR and payroll solution can streamline your workflows, level up your business outcomes, and boost your productivity. Prepare for smooth collaboration, reduced turnover, and cleaner ops.

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• Attract top talent.
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Last month, Wells Fargo fired more than a dozen employees for “simulation of keyboard activity creating impression of active work,” Bloomberg reported. “Wells Fargo holds employees to the highest standards and does not tolerate unethical behavior,” a company spokesperson told Bloomberg in a statement.

While it’s unclear how the fired employees were faking active work, mouse jigglers and other devices that simulate computer activity surged in popularity post-pandemic, as companies increasingly sought to monitor remote workers’ productivity. (Wells Fargo did not respond to HR Brew’s request for comment by publication.)

“There’s this argument that becomes, ‘Well, these kinds of monitoring systems worked, and they caught these folks’...but did they? And at what cost?” Joe Mull, keynote speaker and author of Employalty: How to Ignite Commitment and Keep Top Talent in the New Age of Work, told us.

Mull, along with Deborah Grayson Riegel, a communication and leadership expert, who’s taught at Wharton and Columbia Business Schools, shared with HR Brew what monitoring employees may say about a company’s culture.

Keep reading here.—MC

Most California employers will be required to implement a workplace violence prevention plan as of July 1.

The new requirement stems from a state senate bill enacted last fall in response to incidents of mass shootings and workplace violence occurring in California and across the US. State Sen. Dave Cortese sponsored the bill in the aftermath of a 2021 deadly shooting at the Santa Clara Valley Transportation Authority (VTA) in San Jose, where an employee killed nine colleagues before taking his own life.

There are a limited number of exceptions to the rule—healthcare facilities, for example, are already required to comply with a Cal/OSHA workplace violence prevention standard specific to their industry. Remote employees who don’t work from a location overseen by their employer, as well as employees located outside California, are also exempt.

New requirements. Under the legislation, which amends California’s existing labor code, employers are required to “establish, implement, and maintain” a workplace violence prevention plan as part of their injury and illness prevention program, which is already mandated by Cal/OSHA.

Keep reading here.—CV

Grief isn’t linear. Rigid leave policies can risk alienating employees—for many cultures and religions, the typical 3–5 days of bereavement leave isn’t even enough to complete funeral and mourning traditions. Empathy’s State of Bereavement Leave guide examines leave policies across the US—and suggests how yours can become more inclusive.