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Get Spanked by your Employer, Win 1/2 million dollars!

In a follow-up to our recent story about a company that included spanking of employees in its “motivational training,” a jury just awarded a spanked woman who sued this company $500,000!

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How NOT To Do Employee Training: Spanking Trainees

An employee is suing her previous employer for discrimination, assault, battery, and infliction of emotional distress for her experiences during a highly unorthodox training session.
It seems really obvious to me that these training practices probably would cause more problems than they would solve.
Alarm One, a company based in California (!), used a “motivational training” program [...]

“Tell Me About Yourself:” The 25 Toughest Interview Questions (and tips on how to answer them!)

This list of interview questions is a handy reference for job search interview advice, whether you’re an interviewer or a job candidate.

Personally, I don’t like these interview questions much. But, as a job candidate you should be prepared to answer them effectively.
Among the 25 most difficult interview questions are the following:
“Tell me about [...]

Software Review — Thompson’s Employee Handbook Builder

I’ve written before about the challenges of preparing and revising employee handbooks.
The ideal solution, particularly for smaller companies, would be a system making it easy and relatively inexpensive to create, distribute, and update handbooks customized to a particular company’s practical and legal compliance needs.
Thompson Publishing Group’s Employee Handbook Builder [...]

The Passing of Judge McMillian: Recalling a Pioneering African-American Lawyer and Judge

Judge Theodore “Ted” McMillian, who grew up in a era of racism and then broke the color barrier with a list of “firsts” - first African-American to become a state prosecutor in Missouri, first to become a state judge and first to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals here - died Wednesday (Jan. 18, [...]