December 29, 2005 |
Posted By Diane Pfadenhauer |
Pfadenhauer's List of Top Workplace Events of 2005
There have been a few blog postings of late referring to events of the last year which are worthy of note. In that same theme, I decided to create my own list. Here is Diane's list of some of the more notable workplace happenings, trends and events of 2005 (OK, there's 29 of them, which has no rhyme or reason other than that's what came to me....). One more caveat - they're not in any particular order...
- The passing of management guru Peter Drucker
- The Supreme Court (finally) recognizes the disparate impact theory of discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act
- Katrina, Rita and Wilma
- Continued Erosion of Pension Benefits
- The NYC Transit Strike Settlement - Opening the door for union employee contributions to health insurance in the public sector
- The School District Scandals on Long Island - Roslyn, et. al., which opened the door to voter outcry and call for greater accountability
- Elliot Spitzer and his quest against insurance companies (among others) - resulting in, presumably, greater objectivity in the quoting of insurance premiums
- New COBRA regulations fully in effect (boring, yes, but most aren't thinking about it)
- New rules for nonqualified deferred compensation plans
- Expensing of stock options...
- This Blog won Best Recruiting Law Blog sponsored by Jobster and Recruiting.com
- New USERRA Regulations and poster
- Gas prices this past Fall - rethinking telecommuting
- The OFCCP finally decides what an applicant is!
- New York Security and Notification Act
- Family coverage for healthcare tops $11,000 annually
- Medicare Part D and trying to figure out what creditable coverage is...
- Social Security turns 70
- Mass defection of the Teamsters, SEIU and others from the AFL-CIO
- New I-9 Form Issued
- The Zubulake verdict after landmark rulings on what seemed to be a gazillion motions
- The Roth 401k
- California's Sexual Harassment Training Requirements for Managers by 12/31
- Baby Boomers are now protected by the ADEA
- SHRM finally woke up and set up RSS feeds for its website - too bad you have to have a password to access all that good information...
- Changes to Section 125 Plan "Use It or Lose It Rules"
- The new EEO-1 Form
- Changes to the New York City Human Rights Law
- New 401k Automatic Rollover Rules
Happy New Year everyone!