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Posted on April 30th, 2014 by admin
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Your managers’ definition of “work” and a court’s definition of “work” may not belong in the same dictionary. As a result, you probably want to share this FMLA ruling with your managers. How much is too much to ask of an employee out on FMLA leave? Would your managers consider a few phone calls “work” […]
Posted on April 29th, 2014 by admin
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Welcome to the Digital Age: Technology has changed the workplace so much that employers may not be able to reject a telecommuting accommodation request by saying physical attendance is mandatory. That’s a major takeaway from a recent court ruling involving the ADA. In EEOC v. Ford Motor Co., an employee with Irritable Bowel Syndrome […]
Posted on April 28th, 2014 by admin
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If you can’t trust the frontman of a heavy metal band named Cousin Sleaze, who can you trust? Christopher Inserra was a police officer with the New York Port Authority. In June of 2010, he reported that he severely injured his arm assisting a Port Authority employee to a medical facility. From that point until […]
Posted on April 27th, 2014 by admin
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The Chinese Communist Party probably isn’t the first place you go to look for advice on how managers should behave. But those bureaucrats might just have something here. This whole preposterous story got started when Communist Party officials issued a list of “10 forbidden behaviors” to minor functionaries in Pengshan County, described in a […]
Posted on April 26th, 2014 by admin
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Some employers are getting rid of their HR departments and trying to find new ways to handle hiring, firing and more. Does it actually make sense? Believe it or not, a handful of companies have decided they don’t need a human resources professional on staff, according to a recent article in The Wall Street Journal. […]
Posted on April 18th, 2014 by admin
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We’ve got proof: Superstar employees not only perform spectacularly on their own, they make everyone around them better. At least that’s the conclusion drawn in a recent paper from the National Bureau of Economic research entitled Why Stars Matter. The research centered around university academic departments. Productivity was measured by the number of papers […]
Posted on April 17th, 2014 by admin
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Over the past ten to fifteen years organizations have noticed a shift in the work habits of employees especially with the wide availability of mobile capabilities. Employees now work from home unless they need to collaborate with other coworkers and organizations must accommodate the variety of work styles for each one of their employees. Download […]
Posted on April 16th, 2014 by admin
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At this point, you should just assume that almost every life activity is covered under disability law, as this new case shows. ‘Oh, you’re having surgery? You’re fired’ Anthony Mazzeo, who provided technical and sales service for Color Resolutions International (CRI), was diagnosed with a herniated disc and torn ligaments in his back, which […]
Posted on April 15th, 2014 by admin
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A federal judge has slapped down the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for its enforcement methods. A federal appeals court upheld the dismissal of the EEOC’s lawsuit against Kaplan Higher Education Corp., in which the agency accused the company of improperly using credit histories to screen job applicants. Irony alert: The EEOC itself uses credit […]
Posted on April 14th, 2014 by admin
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