And you thought your employees’ squabbles were hard to deal with. Nursefinders is a staffing company that provides pre-screened nurses and medical personnel to hospitals and other facilities. The company hired Theresa Drummond and assigned her to work at a Kaiser facility as a medical assistant. At some point, Drummond and colleague Sara Montague had a disagreement at […]
Posted on February 28th, 2014 by admin
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By now, many companies are familiar with the practice of employees performing work functions on their personal electronics — the Bring Your Own Device phenomenon. And HR pros are just beginning to find out what a pain that phenomenon can be. The reality of BYOD is that it’s been going on for a long […]
Posted on February 27th, 2014 by admin
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When it comes to managing your company’s talent, are you on top of these four issues? The folks at Silk Road recently surveyed 3,700 talent management and HR professionals to get to the bottom of what’s in the way of handling talent correctly. The four biggest problems? 1. Implementing integrated HR tech We’re as […]
Posted on February 26th, 2014 by admin
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Employers are well aware that the feds are aggressively looking into company-sponsored 401k plans for compliance issues. So it’s alarming to find out that the vast majority of plans the DOL looked at last year ran afoul of ERISA in some way. Specifically, 75% of the 401k plans audited by the DOL last year resulted in plan […]
Posted on February 25th, 2014 by admin
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Disciplining or firing employees for social media missteps could get a lot more complicated. We all know that employees can be fired for posting certain negative comments about their company online. But what about just “liking” a post? That’s the question being asked by the the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) about the Triple Play Sports Bar in […]
Posted on February 24th, 2014 by admin
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Is this where the buck stops with “obesity as disability” cases? HR pros who are up on their employment law know that more courts are leaning toward obesity as a disability. But that’s not what this court found. Gina Powell, who was 5’3″ and weighed 230 pounds, was fired from her job a field salesperson […]
Posted on February 23rd, 2014 by admin
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Ready to rewrite your severance agreements? You may well have to, if the EEOC wins a recently filed lawsuit. You know how these things go down: A company has to downsize, and offers departing employees some kind of financial package in exchange for the employee’s pledge not to divulge proprietary company information and, in […]
Posted on February 22nd, 2014 by admin
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This company’s decision to fire a potentially disabled worker may have been a bad call. Kimberly Spurling had worked for C&M Fine Pack for five years when she “began to exhibit a pattern of decreased consciousness and alertness,” for which she received several disciplinary warnings. What did that look like? One day, she left her […]
Posted on February 21st, 2014 by admin
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It seems like today’s workplace has become a lot less civil than it used to be. Why is that? And is there anything we can do about it? Industrial psychologist Dennis Davis, who works for the law firm Ogletree Deakins and is a regular speaker at employment law conferences, offers some theories on both questions. First, Davis […]
Posted on February 20th, 2014 by admin
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Finding the right software for your organization is essential to implementing and executing a transition from the old to the new, but your time is valuable and there are so many human resources (HR) software systems available today, how do you find the one that’s right for your organization? Let the experts at Software Advice […]
Posted on February 19th, 2014 by admin
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