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Federal OSHA Issues “Vaccine or Test” Emergency Temporary Standard for Large Employers

By: | 11.05.21 | HR Alerts, Coronavirus,
On November 4, 2021, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its long-awaited Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) requiring all employers with at least 100 employees to ensure that their workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 or sub...

2021 Year End Celebration Trends

By: | 11.03.21 | Engagement
At a recent MEA Town Hall, MEA Members Jaqueline Poquette of Westlake Plastics Company and Chelsea Corson of ELAP Services spoke about their plans for their 2021 Year-End Celebration and how they came to these decisions to fit in with their workplace culture. Matt Roess...

What are the Benefits of Coaching?

By: | 10.28.21 | Training and Development
In my previous blog about Let’s Talk Coaching, the first in a series on coaching, we started with the basics – what is coaching. I know this may have seemed rudimentary but it wasn’t. About 60% of the clients that I work with don’t truly understa...

MidAtlantic Employers’ Plans to Return to the Office

By: | 10.19.21 | Coronavirus
Similar to our August 31st Town Hall, MEA dedicated the entire October 12th Town Hall to discuss the ever-changing policies and protocols around returning to the physical workplace. To determine what employers in the MidAtlantic region have implemented, we polled our at...

Let’s Talk Coaching

By: | 10.07.21 | Training and Development
In my last blog, I discussed the many elements of talent development in addition to training – things like coaching, mentoring, providing stretch assignments, creating learning circles, creating resource libraries, special projects, professional organizations, pee...

Be Human to Make Work Human: Keynote address by Derek Irvine

By: | 09.29.21 | Strategic HR
At the 2021 HR Leadership Conference, Derek Irvine, Senior Vice President of Workhuman, shared how humans are changing the future of work and the world. Specifically, he focused on how to make work more human as well as how to fuel positivity, engagement, innovation, re...

Recruiting Tips & Best Practices

By: | 09.22.21 | Recruiting
At our weekly webinar on August 24th, Matt Roessler discussed recruiting tips and best practices that he has been seeing come up in discussions with MEA members and Peer Group meetings. Roessler focuses his discussion on how organizations can positively impact their rec...

COVID-19 Update: Returning to the Physical Workplace

By: | 09.15.21 | Coronavirus
Recently, MEA dedicated the entire August 31st Town Hall to discussing the decisions employers are facing when it comes to returning to the physical workplace. To garner insights, we polled our attendees to see what protocols employers have implemented. Masks in the ...

President Biden Announces New COVID-19 Action Plan

By: | 09.09.21 | HR Alerts
On September 9, 2021, President Biden announced a sweeping new COVID-19 Action Plan, Path Out of the Pandemic. This Plan includes COVID-19 vaccine mandates, some without testing options, for large employers, the federal government, federal contractors and healthcar...