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In today’s edition:
Walmart college
Harassment
AI regulation
—Kristen Parisi, Aman Kidwai
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Five years ago, Walmart, one of the country’s largest employers, rolled out Live Better U (LBU) in partnership with Guild Education to empower employees to expand their education.
Report card. The program offers all part and full-time US associates 75 online learning paths, including college preparation classes, professional certificates, and bachelor’s degrees in high-need areas like computer science, business, and cybersecurity.
Walmart currently partners with learning institutions like Louisiana State University, Morehouse College, and the University of Arizona, and since launch, 104,000 US-based associates have participated in LBU, and 16,000 have completed one of the programs. In a new blog post, Walmart said the US-based initiative was so successful, that it’s now expanding to include associates in Canada. The company also announced the University of Arkansas as its latest partner institution.
When asked how many of the graduates from LBU go on to work in corporate roles, the company declined to provide those numbers. “The end goal is not about corporate office,” Lorraine Stomski, SVP of enterprise leadership and learning at Walmart, told HR Brew. “The goal is to make sure that we are actually upskilling for roles across the company.”
Keep reading.—KP
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New research suggests that a significant portion of employees, particularly younger ones, have experienced workplace harassment.
According to a survey by consulting firm Deloitte, 61% of Gen Z and 49% of millennials have experienced harassment or microaggressions in the past year. Around 80% of those said they reported it, with around a third saying their concerns were not handled well.
Women, nonbinary, and LGBT+ individuals were less likely to report harassment to their company and less likely to feel like it responded well, according to Deloitte’s report and backed up by a claim backed up by MIT lecturer Donald Sull, who also runs a consulting firm called CultureX.
A global survey by Gallup earlier this year found that 23% of all workers have experienced harassment.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently released new guidance aimed at addressing or preventing workplace harassment. The recommendations include distributing a company-wide policy, anonymous reporting platforms, and rewarding managers who take action on harassment.
“You cannot have senior leaders who say this is important but then do exactly the opposite,” Stephen Paskoff, the CEO of Employment Learning Innovations and a former EEOC investigator, told Fortune. “It sends a message that if you’re at a certain level, [policies] don’t apply.”
Keep reading.—AK
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With a new New York City law coming that will require employers that use automated recruiting tools to publicly disclose bias audit data on an annual basis, recruiting software providers are making some adjustments.
New vendors and processes. Recruiting platform Harver told HR Brew that it will be providing the impact ratio tables for its soft skills assessment offerings. Not all of the company’s products fall under the reach of this law, and because the ones that do are mostly configured by Harver, Chief Data Science Officer Frida Polli said they are taking care of the regulatory responsibility on behalf of their clients.
Once it received the final language of the law, Harver identified which products the regulations applied to. “We have a video interview product that has no analytics behind it. However, we have multiple assessment products…that meet the criteria,” Polli said. “Even though they’re built differently, they all need to be verified.”
Harver expanded a relationship with vendor TruEra to do an internal audit of its reporting data before it is sent to the Babel Group, a consultancy that Harver chose to conduct the legally required external audit, Polli said. She also pointed out that Harver published its data last year.
Keep reading.—AK
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Today’s top HR reads.
Stat: 67% of job candidates report that a potential employer has ghosted them during the interview process, an issue worse for those from underrepresented communities. (Greenhouse)
Quote: “In the last few months, the job market has continued to defy gravity, adding a steady clip of jobs and holding unemployment at historically low levels despite a backdrop of rising interest rates, banking turmoil, tech layoffs, and debt ceiling negotiations.”—Daniel Zhao, Glassdoor economist (CNN)
Read: A reversal of a remote-work policy at Farmers Group sparked outrage among employees on an internal social-media platform, many of whom had made major decisions based on the assumption the remote policy was permanent. (the Wall Street Journal)
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