This month’s Compliance Tracker Newsletter provides a summary of compliance deadlines for February 2024 and highlights upcoming due dates.
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This month’s Compliance Tracker Newsletter provides a summary of compliance deadlines for February 2024 and highlights upcoming due dates.
Compliance Tracker Newsletter February 2024Question:
“We’ve had a request for a religious accommodation, but I think the employee wants to get out of following the policy for other reasons. How do I determine whether a religious belief is legitimate and sincerely held?”
Answer:
Ordinarily, you should assume that an employee’s request for a religious accommodation is based on a sincerely held religious belief, observance, or practice. The definition of religion is broad and protects beliefs, observances, and practices you may not be familiar with. That said, if you have an objective basis for doubting either the religious nature of the belief or that it’s sincerely held, you can request additional supporting information.
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This Q&A does not constitute legal advice and does not address state or local law.
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Question:
“What are SMART goals?”
Answer:
“The SMART goal framework is an approach to goal setting that helps you set goals that are more impactful and likely to be achieved, while avoiding goals that are too broad to be meaningful or simply too difficult. SMART stands for specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and timebound. Let’s examine each quality in turn.
A specific goal identifies exactly what is to be achieved. It answers the question of what success looks like. Let’s say you want to set a goal around improving morale. A specific goal might be “reduced turnover” or “increased scores on the annual employee engagement survey.”
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