Recipe for a really tasty lawsuit: Take manager’s remarks to a female employee that she’s “not that pretty,” and that other women in her position were “just gorgeous” and donned “tight sweaters” and “short skirts” in the workplace. Mix in a refusal to pay accrued vacation and sick time, and after the employee files a […]
Posted on August 31st, 2013 by admin
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Don’t expect staffers in these lines of work to be rushing to Happy Hour after clocking out. The 10 jobs where people hate their co-workers Researchers with Payscale analyzed 28,000 responses to determine the jobs where people said they’d fire their co-workers if they were allowed to change one thing about the […]
Posted on August 30th, 2013 by admin
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Lord knows, we’ve heard enough stories about how employees misbehave on social media. Now comes the tale of the manager who set up a fake Facebook account to spy on what one of his underlings was saying on a private social media page. Here’s the best part: After he read the not-very-complimentary things the […]
Posted on August 29th, 2013 by admin
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Recruitment expert Kevin Wheeler looks at the state of talent acquisition and technology today – and explores their future. Discover how current recruiting technology trends will impact the world of tomorrow’s talent acquisition professional, how to manage the rise of social and mobile adoption, how to embrace data to make the most out of the […]
Posted on August 28th, 2013 by admin
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How far do you have to go to help an employee who’s trying to wean himself off of drugs? Here are the details of the case: Bryan Shirley worked at Wyman-Gordon Forgings as an operator for the largest extrusion press in the world. Although he’d taken Vicodin as prescribed by his doctor for a long […]
Posted on August 27th, 2013 by admin
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Periodically, we ask three HR pros how they’d handle a difficult situation at work. Today’s problem: A company’s best employees have just been linked romantically — which is against company policy. The scenario Supervisor Jake Miller dragged his feet into HR?Manager Stu Capper’s office. “Why the long face, Jake?” Stu asked. “What’s our company’s stance […]
Posted on August 26th, 2013 by admin
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Want to fire up your employees with a personal gung-ho message from the Big Boss? You probably don’t want to follow this guy’s example. Done correctly, town hall-style meetings where upper management talks directly to rank-and-file staffers and “rallies the troops” can be great morale boosters. What took place at a recent AOL meeting, […]
Posted on August 25th, 2013 by admin
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Bet you saw this coming: On the heels of the American Medical Association announcing its position that obesity qualifies as a disease, an employee in Missouri has filed suit accusing his employer of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act by firing him because of his weight. According to documents filed with a federal district […]
Posted on August 24th, 2013 by admin
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This may be the strangest bereavement request ever — but that didn’t mean the company could deny this staffer the chance to attend his father’s funeral. Here are the details of the case: Sikiru Adeyeye is a Nigerian national who worked as a material handler for Heartland Sweeteners. Adeyeye’s father, who lived in Nigeria, died […]
Posted on August 23rd, 2013 by admin
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For the first time since 2003, all of the members of the the National Labor Relations Board have actually been confirmed by the Senate. So what’s that going to mean for employers? Here’s the short version of how the confirmation deal went down: Senate Republicans had been dragging their feet on confirming President Obama’s nominees […]
Posted on August 22nd, 2013 by admin
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