SCOTUS Decisions and Hot Strike Summer: July's HR News with Paul Simon and Dustin Paschal
07/27/23 • 47 min
In episode 106, Coffey talks with Paul Simon and Dustin Paschal about HR news topics including the possible impact of Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious admissions programs; SCOTUS’ revised standard for evaluation religious accommodation requests; and the possible causes of the Hot Strike Summer.
They discuss when an employer can consider race or sex in making an employment decision; disparate impact and reverse discrimination; the difference between "affirmative action" and "equal employment opportunity"; removing bias in the interviewing process; moving beyond the de minimis standard for religious accommodations, including how closely to scrutinize an employee’s religious claims; and the recent movement of everyone going on strike.
Links to stuff they talked about are on our website at https://goodmorninghr.com/EP106 and include the following topics:
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college admissions:
U.S. Supreme Court buoys religious employees who seek accommodations at work
Supreme Court ruling deals another blow to organized labor
Summer of strikes heats up
Good Morning, HR is brought to you by Imperative—premium background checks with fast and friendly service. For more information about our commitment to quality and excellent customer service, visit us at https://imperativeinfo.com.
If you are an HRCI or SHRM-certified professional, this episode of Good Morning, HR has been pre-approved for three-quarters of a recertification credit. To obtain the recertification information for this episode, visit https://goodmorninghr.com.
About our Guests:
Dustin Paschal, JD.
As a founding member of Simon | Paschal PLLC, a boutique employment law firm in Frisco, Texas, Dustin maintains an active employment law practice. If it’s an HR related issue, Dustin likely handles it for his clients. Dustin is a former President of DallasHR and currently serves on DallasHR’s Board of Trustees, which he previously chaired for two years. Dustin also serves as the Texas SHRM State Director-Elect. He previously served as a District 1 Director and as a Legal & Legislative Director. Dustin is also active in his community, where he has served on various city, school district, and nonprofit committees and boards. Dustin likes HR so much, he married an HR professional! When Dustin isn’t working, he is trying to keep up with an active five-year-old son or trying to forget that he’s a lawyer!
Paul Simon, JD
As a founding member of Simon | Paschal PLLC, an employment and business law boutique law firm in Dallas, Texas, Paul maintains an active employment and business law practice. Paul has a wide array of experience in employment matters. Paul also has a broad business-based practice including, business entity formation and dissolution, operating agreements, and contract drafting and review. Paul currently serves on the DallasHR Board of Directors as the Director of the Collin CountyHR Committee. Paul was a six-term member of the DAYL Executive Committee, where he ultimately served as its President. Paul also has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star and has been selected more than 5 times as a Texas Super Lawyer. Paul also was selected as a Best Lawyer Under 40 and a Best Lawyer in Dallas by D Magazine in 2018 and 2019.
Paul Simon and Dustin Paschal can be reached at:
https://www.facebook.com/simonpaschallaw
https://twitter.com/SimonPaschalLaw
https://www.linkedin.com/company/simon-paschal-pllc/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SimonpaschalPLLC
About Mike Coffey:
Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, human resources professional, licensed private investigator, and HR consultant.
In 1999, he founded Imperative, a background investigations firm helping risk-averse companies make well-informed decisions about the people they involve in their business.
Today, Imperative serves hundreds of businesses across the US and, through its PFC Caregiver & Household Screening brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies.
Mike has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence and has twice been named HR Professional of the Year.
Additionally, Imperative has been named the Texas As...
In episode 106, Coffey talks with Paul Simon and Dustin Paschal about HR news topics including the possible impact of Supreme Court's decision on race-conscious admissions programs; SCOTUS’ revised standard for evaluation religious accommodation requests; and the possible causes of the Hot Strike Summer.
They discuss when an employer can consider race or sex in making an employment decision; disparate impact and reverse discrimination; the difference between "affirmative action" and "equal employment opportunity"; removing bias in the interviewing process; moving beyond the de minimis standard for religious accommodations, including how closely to scrutinize an employee’s religious claims; and the recent movement of everyone going on strike.
Links to stuff they talked about are on our website at https://goodmorninghr.com/EP106 and include the following topics:
Supreme Court strikes down affirmative action programs in college admissions:
U.S. Supreme Court buoys religious employees who seek accommodations at work
Supreme Court ruling deals another blow to organized labor
Summer of strikes heats up
Good Morning, HR is brought to you by Imperative—premium background checks with fast and friendly service. For more information about our commitment to quality and excellent customer service, visit us at https://imperativeinfo.com.
If you are an HRCI or SHRM-certified professional, this episode of Good Morning, HR has been pre-approved for three-quarters of a recertification credit. To obtain the recertification information for this episode, visit https://goodmorninghr.com.
About our Guests:
Dustin Paschal, JD.
As a founding member of Simon | Paschal PLLC, a boutique employment law firm in Frisco, Texas, Dustin maintains an active employment law practice. If it’s an HR related issue, Dustin likely handles it for his clients. Dustin is a former President of DallasHR and currently serves on DallasHR’s Board of Trustees, which he previously chaired for two years. Dustin also serves as the Texas SHRM State Director-Elect. He previously served as a District 1 Director and as a Legal & Legislative Director. Dustin is also active in his community, where he has served on various city, school district, and nonprofit committees and boards. Dustin likes HR so much, he married an HR professional! When Dustin isn’t working, he is trying to keep up with an active five-year-old son or trying to forget that he’s a lawyer!
Paul Simon, JD
As a founding member of Simon | Paschal PLLC, an employment and business law boutique law firm in Dallas, Texas, Paul maintains an active employment and business law practice. Paul has a wide array of experience in employment matters. Paul also has a broad business-based practice including, business entity formation and dissolution, operating agreements, and contract drafting and review. Paul currently serves on the DallasHR Board of Directors as the Director of the Collin CountyHR Committee. Paul was a six-term member of the DAYL Executive Committee, where he ultimately served as its President. Paul also has been selected as a Texas Super Lawyer Rising Star and has been selected more than 5 times as a Texas Super Lawyer. Paul also was selected as a Best Lawyer Under 40 and a Best Lawyer in Dallas by D Magazine in 2018 and 2019.
Paul Simon and Dustin Paschal can be reached at:
https://www.facebook.com/simonpaschallaw
https://twitter.com/SimonPaschalLaw
https://www.linkedin.com/company/simon-paschal-pllc/
https://www.youtube.com/c/SimonpaschalPLLC
About Mike Coffey:
Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, human resources professional, licensed private investigator, and HR consultant.
In 1999, he founded Imperative, a background investigations firm helping risk-averse companies make well-informed decisions about the people they involve in their business.
Today, Imperative serves hundreds of businesses across the US and, through its PFC Caregiver & Household Screening brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies.
Mike has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence and has twice been named HR Professional of the Year.
Additionally, Imperative has been named the Texas As...
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Artificial Intelligence & HR: Now and Into the Future with Tim Sackett
In episode 105, Coffey talks with Tim Sackett about the current and future use of artificial intelligence in human resources management.
They discuss the evolution of artificial intelligence from chatbots to machine learning and generative systems AI like Chat GPT and Google’s Bard; ensuring that humans are still involved in reviewing content produced by generative AI; privacy considerations when feeding company information and employee behaviors into AI systems; the prospect of using AI to measure employee sentiment or identify where employee-relations interventions may be needed; current practical uses of generative AI in human resources; how HR technology companies will likely include AI in future software releases; how AI could improve HR services delivery to management and employees; protecting company proprietary information when using public-facing AI systems and the prospect for company-specific large language models; why jealous significant others make great “prompt engineers;” and how well-designed AI systems might be better at confronting managers’ bad practices than HR professionals.
Good Morning, HR is brought to you by Imperative—premium background checks with fast and friendly service. For more information about our commitment to quality and excellent customer service, visit us at https://imperativeinfo.com.
If you are an HRCI or SHRM-certified professional, this episode of Good Morning, HR has been pre-approved for three-quarters of a recertification credit. To obtain the recertification information for this episode, visit https://goodmorninghr.com.
About our Guest:
Tim Sackett, SHRM-SCP is the CEO of HRUTech.com a leading technical recruiting firm.
Tim has over 20 plus years of combined Executive HR and Talent Acquisition experience, working for Fortune 500 companies and he has his master’s degree in HR Management.
Tim is a highly sought-after international speaker on leadership, HR &TA Tech, talent acquisition and HR execution.
Tim is currently a Senior Faculty member with the Josh Bersin Academy.
Tim is the author of the best-selling SHRM published book, “The Talent Fix: A Leader’s Guide to
Recruiting Great Talent”. He also writes every day at his blog The Tim Sackett Project. He also does a
weekly podcast called HR Famous.
Tim is married to a hall of fame wife, has three sons, and his dogs Scout and Tucker. In 2023, he was named a Top Global HR & Recruitment Influencer by HR Executive.
He has more Twitter followers than his three GenZ sons and is sponsored on stage by Diet Mountain Dew.
Tim Sackett can be reached at
https://www.linkedin.com/in/timsackett/
https://www.instagram.com/timsackett/
About Mike Coffey:
Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, human resources professional, licensed private investigator, and HR consultant.
In 1999, he founded Imperative, a background investigations and due diligence firm helping risk-averse clients make well-informed decisions about the people they involve in their business.
Today, Imperative serves hundreds of businesses across the US and, through its PFC Caregiver & Household Screening brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies.
Mike is a frequent conference speaker on HR and business strategy topics. He has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence and has twice been named HR Professional of the Year.
Additionally, Imperative has been named the Texas Association of Business’ small business of the year and is accredited by the Professional Background Screening Association.
Mike is a member of the Fort Worth chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and volunteers with the SHRM Texas State Council.
Mike maintains his certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) through the HR Certification Institute. He is also a SHRM Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP).
Mike l...
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In episode 107, Coffey talks with Dr. Paul White about building meaningfully sharing appreciation in the workplace.
They discuss the difference between employee recognition programs and authentic demonstration of appreciation; praising character vs. behavior; showing appreciation in a way that is meaningful to each employee; what the "motivating by appreciation inventory" assessment measures; the five languages of appreciation; the ROI of building appreciation into the organization's culture; the role of leaders in creating an appreciation culture; and the challenges of implementing a culture of appreciation.
You can email Dr. White at [email protected] for a sample report of the "Motivating By Appreciation Inventory" assessment.
Good Morning, HR is brought to you by Imperative—premium background checks with fast and friendly service. For more information about our commitment to quality and excellent customer service, visit us at https://imperativeinfo.com.
If you are an HRCI or SHRM-certified professional, this episode of Good Morning, HR has been pre-approved for three-quarters of a recertification credit. To obtain the recertification information for this episode, visit https://goodmorninghr.com.
About our Guest:
Dr. Paul White is a psychologist, author, and speaker who “makes work relationships work.”
He has written articles for and been interviewed by the BBC News, Business Week, the New York Times,
CNN/Fortune.com, Entrepreneur.com, Fast Company, Fortune, FoxBusiness.com, U.S. News and World Report, Washington Post, and Yahoo! Finance.
As a speaker and trainer, Dr. White has taught around the world, including North American, Europe, South America, Asia, and the Caribbean. His expertise has been requested by PepsiCo, Microsoft, NASA, L’Oreal, Ritz Carlton, Starbucks, Boeing, HP, Exxon Mobile, DIRECTB, and numerous other multinational organizations.
Dr. White is the coauthor of the best-selling book, The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace, which has sold over 550,000 copies (written with Dr. Gary Chapman, author of the #1 NY Times bestseller, The 5 Love Languages) and has been translated into 25 languages.
Based on their extensive research and expertise, Dr. White and Dr. Chapman have developed practical ways for leaders and employees to communicate authentic appreciation that leads to increased employee engagement, lower staff turnover, more positive work environments, and higher productivity.
Additionally, their online assessment, the Motivating By Appreciation Inventory, has been taken by over 375,000 employees worldwide and is available in multiple languages.
Cited as a thought-leader in developing healthy workplace relationships, his speaking style has been described as “world-class” expertise providing practical, easily implemented information with the right touch of humor.”
Dr. Paul White can be reached at
https://www.appreciationatwork.com
https://www.linkedin.com/company/5-languages-of-appreciation-in-the-workplace https://twitter.com/drpaulwhite
https://www.facebook.com/appreciationatwork
https://www.instagram.com/appreciationatwork
About Mike Coffey:
Mike Coffey is an entrepreneur, human resources professional, licensed private investigator, and HR consultant.
In 1999, he founded Imperative, a background investigations firm helping risk-averse companies make well-informed decisions about the people they involve in their business.
Today, Imperative serves hundreds of businesses across the US and, through its PFC Caregiver & Household Screening brand, many more private estates, family offices, and personal service agencies.
Mike has been recognized as an Entrepreneur of Excellence and has twice been named HR Professional of the Year.
Additionally, Imperative has been named the Texas Association of Business’ small business of the year and is accredited by the Professional Background Screening Association.
Mike is a member of the Fort Worth chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization and volunteers with the SHRM Texa...
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