Workplace Violence
Trucks and Guns: An Employment Law Fable, Part II (Workers’ Comp & Workplace Violence)
This truck driver walks into a truck stop.
Read Trucks and Guns: An Employment Law Fable, Part I (Overtime for Truck Drivers) for the whole story. . . . It ends with an HR manager getting shot by the driver (just hypothetically).
Today, shifting gears to my workplace violence research, we’ll cover the second question raised by [...]
Trucks and Guns: An Employment Law Fable, Part I (Overtime for Truck Drivers)
This truck driver walks into a truck stop.
He’s there for a meeting with an HR manager from his company’s regional office to discuss why he’s not paid overtime.
The manager, who was on his way home from his office, explains it’s because he drives in interstate commerce, and federal overtime law exempts such drivers.
The driver says [...]
Background Checks and the Job Search
If you’re on a job search today and haven’t been on one in many years, particularly since before 9/11, you will likely encounter many important changes in the application and hiring process.
Prevalence of Background Checks
One such change is the extent to which employers now use various forms of background checks before hiring.
A 2004 [...]
Beyond Gun Bans: Understanding and Preventing Workplace Violence
As noted the other day, we provoked some controversy on the subject of banning guns in employee vehicles in workplace parking lots.
Several readers contributed personal viewpoints stating reasons for employees to keep weapons in vehicles. These reasons might strike other readers as somewhat persuasive — or not.
Certainly, the gunowners may well be right that [...]
Controversy Over Guns At Work Continues to Rage
After abortion and the war in Iraq, gun control vs. gun rights seem to be right up there on the list of topics most likely to get you in an unpleasant argument.
So I’m not surprised that a 4-month-old post on guns in the workplace parking lot has drawn what for this Blawg are a [...]
