HR Besties Happy Hour: Troubling Updates on SHRM
HR BESTIES
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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Thanks for joining our mid-week Happy Hour, Besties! Whew, do we ever need it.
In this Happy Hour:
- Spilling the latest on SHRM's lawsuit, the importance of holding each other accountable and a juicy reveal at the end...
- Quick recap and how did we get here?
- Troubling, troubling, troubling
- What lessons can HR professionals take from all of this?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, besties. Special Happy Hour episode. |
| 0:13.7 | Oh gosh. Are we excited or what? We've got some updates, don't we? |
| 0:22.3 | We do have some updates. |
| 0:24.3 | Jamie, do you know what we have an update on? |
| 0:26.3 | I think we're talking about SHR. Today. |
| 0:27.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:27.6 | Well, we're really talking about why HR is important. |
| 0:30.8 | Yes. |
| 0:31.5 | Yes. |
| 0:32.1 | Why it matters to keep you out of bullshit like this. |
| 0:35.5 | Good HR. |
| 0:36.4 | Good HR. |
| 0:37.1 | Good HR. Best HR. Good HR. |
| 0:38.0 | Best practices should be something that do more that live on a website. |
| 0:42.4 | They actually come to life. |
| 0:43.8 | And it doesn't always have to be best practices, but it should be decent practices, at least. |
| 0:48.6 | Decent. |
| 0:49.3 | Yeah. |
| 0:50.5 | Non-litigacy causing practices. |
| 0:53.4 | You all know this. Having been a lawyer, having been in litigation, going through the Shurm lawsuit in particular, as I told the ladies, on one hand, it's very hard because I no longer practice law and I don't really want to. But it does bring me back to going through PACER and these federal dockets. And that's the website where you can go and access so many things. You can kind of see what's going on behind the scenes. And oftentimes it's just regular court documents, |
| 1:15.3 | because there's a lot that's exchanged between two parties and a lawsuit that you don't normally |
| 1:18.9 | see. But when parties start having some disputes and keeping stuff out, you start to get a peek |
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