by CUPA-HR
Each month, CUPA-HR General Counsel Ira Shepard provides an overview of some labor and employment law cases and regulatory actions with implications for the higher ed workplace. Read the latest from Ira.
by Julie Boggs
As the six individuals from CUPA-HR’s 2017-18 Wildfire program finished their program year by sharing their capstone projects, a new group of Wildfire participants is just getting started. Read about the projects from last year’s group, and meet this year’s cohort.
by Missy Kline
Does your institution hire faculty, professionals or postdocs who are foreign nationals? If so, you can speed up your H-1B application process by using CUPA-HR’s DataOnDemand tool to obtain a prevailing wage determination (the first step in filing an H-1B visa).
by Missy Kline
Each year, CUPA-HR’s Higher Education Human Resource Awards honor individuals, teams and institutions that are doing outstanding and innovative work around advancing diversity and inclusion in higher ed, elevating the HR role on campus, furthering the higher ed HR profession, and giving selflessly of their time and talents to CUPA-HR and their higher ed HR peers.
According to findings from CUPA-HR’s 2018 Paid Time Off, Tuition, and Retirement Benefits for Higher Education Employees Survey, the percentage of institutions using more than one retirement service provider has decreased from nearly half in 2014 to one-third in 2018. 
On July 24, the House Education and the Workforce Committee held a hearing on the Workflex in the 21st Century Act. The bill would amend the Employee Retirement Income Security Act to create Qualified Flexible Work Arrangement plans under which employers could offer paid time off and flexible work arrangements. 
Each month, CUPA-HR General Counsel Ira Shepard provides an overview of some labor and employment law cases and regulatory actions with implications for the higher ed workplace. Here’s the latest from Ira. 
On June 6, Peter B. Robb, general counsel for the National Labor Relations Board, issued guidance to regional directors on how to evaluate workplace rules and handbooks. The guidance applies to handbooks in both union and nonunion workplaces at private-sector employers, including private colleges and universities. 
Each month, CUPA-HR General Counsel Ira Shepard provides an overview of some labor and employment law cases and regulatory actions with implications for the higher ed workplace. Here’s the latest from Ira. 
Research has shown that women and minorities each face their own challenges related to equal pay and representation in the higher ed workforce — women working in higher ed leadership earn less than White men; women are underrepresented in higher-paying, more prestigious positions in American colleges and universities; and minorities are underrepresented, particularly in high-level higher ed jobs, and underpaid in the majority of campus jobs. But how do these inequities intersect for women of color?