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- Women in Law Enforcement Still Face Gender Bias
- How Job Seekers Can Benefit from a Well-Designed Business Card
- Improving Recruiting and Hiring Process: Thought-Provoking Infographic
- Ministerial Exception to Employment Discrimination Laws Upheld by Supreme Court in Hosanna-Tabor Evangelical Lutheran Church and School v. E.E.O.C.
- How to Interview Millennials: The Keys to Hiring the Best Young Talent
- Online Human Resource Courses, Certifications, Degrees & Free Materials: Some of the Many Choices
- Thinking About Quitting Your Job? Ten Key Signs It Might Be a Good Idea
- Communication Careers: Options Abound
- Managed Services Help Lower IT Costs For Small Business HR Departments
- Hospice Home Health Aide Brings Help To Those in Need
- Learning Management Systems: What to Look for in Selecting One
- College English Teacher’s Job: A Firsthand Account
- Web Analyst Job Search: Tips on Interview Preparation and More
- Career Fair Tips: How to Make the Most Out of Career Fairs in Your Job Search
- Employment in the Music Industry: Job Profile of Music Editor
- “Occupy” Movement’s Oakland General Strike Raises Interesting Labor Law Issues
- College to Career: How My Life Changed After Graduation
- Best Job Search Tactic for Retired Military Mechanical Services Representative: Perseverance
- Hispanic Bilingual Nurse Overcomes Discrimination and Helps Patients
- Air Force Veteran’s Successful Job Search Lands Airline Tower Operator Job
- Career Summary Statement Can Make or Break a Resume
- Electronic Medical Records (EMR) for Providers & Patients: Part of the Solution to Runaway Health Costs?
- Careers Without A College Degree: Options to Consider
- Job Interviews: How to Succeed By Using the Job Description as Your Focus
- Employment of Women: Survey of Issues & Initiatives — Higher-Paying Nontraditional & Green Jobs for Women
- Employment of Women: Survey of Issues & Initiatives — Workplace Flexibility
- Employment of Women: Survey of Issues & Initiatives — Equal Pay
- Employment of Women: Survey of Current Issues & Federal Initiatives — Introduction
- Finding a Job: The Importance of Proper Job Search Etiquette
- Unemployment Rate News: More on Other Measures of Jobs Recovery
- Writing a Résumé with a Hook
- HR Record Retention Requirements: How Long Do You Have to Keep Employment Records?
- Liberal Arts Education: Is It Valuable in the Business World?
- Unemployment Rate News: Other Measures of Jobs Recovery
- Five Tips for Improving Your Job Search–and Your Life
- Discrimination Against Unemployed Applicants? EEOC Hears Experts.
- Unemployment Rate News: Staffing and Temporary Employment Jobs Reports
- Unemployment Rate News: March 2011 Labor Department Jobs Report Appears to Show Progress
- Unemployment Rate News: Analyzing Jobs Report Numbers from Labor Department and Other Sources
- Leadership Development Failure: New Managers Often Left to Sink or Swim, Study Shows
- Non-Decision-Maker Bias & Discrimination Liability Under Cat’s Paw Theory in Supreme Court’s Staub v. Proctor Hospital Decision. Part II — Commentary
- Correctly Treating Travel Time As Hours Worked Under Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Regulations
- Non-Decision-Maker Bias & Discrimination Liability Under “Cat’s Paw” Theory in Supreme Court’s Staub v. Proctor Hospital Decision. Part I — The Decision.
- Poll Shows Majority Support Public Employee Unions and Collective Bargaining
- Diversity in the Workplace, Part II – Implementation
- Diversity in the Workplace, Part I – Definitions and Benefits
- Fastest Growing Metro Areas for Tech Jobs
- Office Romances: Worth the Risk?
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Ruled Unconstitutional — Again
- Supreme Court Upholds Claim Alleging Employer Fired Man in Retaliation for Fiancée’s EEOC Charge; Avoids Setting “Bright Line” Rule — Part II, Assessing Thompson Decision’s Significance
- Family Responsibilities Discrimination Quiz
- The World’s 25 Most Difficult Jobs
- Book on Rebuilding Trust Sets Example for Employers
- Supreme Court Upholds Claim Alleging Employer Fired Man in Retaliation for Fiancée’s EEOC Charge; Avoids Setting “Bright Line” Rule — Part I, the Decision
- Ten Fatal Flaws of the Modern Day Office
- How to Investigate a Potential Employer’s Financial Stability
- Ten Internet Mistakes That Can Hurt Your Job Search
- Online Masters Degree: How Long Does it Take to Get One?
- Five Potentially Revealing Interview Questions Suggested by Business Development Author
- NLRB Announces Proposed Rule Requiring Posting of Notice on Employee Rights
- Twelve Things Employers Want To See in Your Resume & Interview
- EEOC Getting Tough On Employer Use of Credit Reports
- Finally Some Good News For Job Hunters? Survey Finds Renewed Confidence in Hiring
- How to Browse Hundreds of Blogs On Employment Topics
- How to Choose the Right Resource Management and Employee Performance Software
- Increase in Part Time Jobs with Benefits Reported
- Job Seekers Beware: Work at Home Scams
- Online Degrees: Educational Boon or Bust?
- 10 Reasons Your Employees Hate You (Or at Least Reject You…)
- EEOC Hears Testimony on Age Discrimination
- Workplace IT Issue: How Email Fraud is Becoming Sneakier and More Sophisticated
- Can Recruiters Be Liable for Employment Discrimination?
- What Does Climbing the St. Louis Arch Have To Do With Proving Discrimination?
- How Employers Can Minimize the Risk of Family Responsibilities Discrimination (FRD): Developing a Prevention Plan
- Your Employee Handbook–Suggestions and Links for Creating and Updating It
- Five Big Career Trends for Job Seekers
- Difficulty Finding a Job Varies Widely Among US States
- “The Company You Keep”: Association Discrimination under the ADA
- Key Ways for Students to Jumpstart Their Careers While Still in College
- 5 Ways to Stay Productive While You Search for a Job
- Job Seeking Tips for College Graduates
- How to Win a Job Interview in a Competitive Market
- Is Your Use of Social Network Sites Helping or Hurting Your Career?
- You’re About to Graduate; Now What? Tips on Preparing for Your Job Search
- What are Typical Career Coaching Costs?
- Top 10 Resume Tips for Career Changers
- Tips for Entry Level Jobs & College Grads
- 5 Keys To Creating A Resume They’ll Remember
- Public Survey of Job Search and Career Sites Completed By US Department of Labor
- A Tale of Two Reference Check Responses — Liability for One, But Not the Other
- Negligent Hiring Claim: California Case Demonstrates Outer Limits to Liability
- “New Jobs for a New Decade” — NPR Series on Job Prospects for Business Sectors That Are Often Cited as Growth Areas
- Who’s Hiring Recent College Grads: Resources for Entry-Level Job Seekers
- Celebrating Six Years of Blogging — Law Blogs & How the Online World Has Changed (Part IV: More Thoughts for Blogging Lawyers & Bringing My Story Up To Date)
- Motoring With Your Career
- How’s Your Job Search Going?
- Ricci v. DeStefano, a/k/a The New Haven Firefighters’ Case, Part I:The Basics: the Facts and Holding of the Ricci case
- New “Vocations” Blog Provides Insight Into “Life, Work, and Meaning” From Interviews With People In Wide Variety of Positions
- Celebrating 6 Years of Blogging — Law Blogs and How the Online World Has Changed (Part III: Lawyer Blogs and 3 Views of Blogging)
- Celebrating 6 Years of Blogging — Law Blogs & How the Online World Has Changed (Part II: Solving or Aggravating Information Overload?)
- Celebrating 6 Years of Blogging — Law Blogs & How the Online World Has Changed (Part I: Birth of a Blawg & Blogging’s Evolution, 2003-09)
- Green Jobs: What They Are and Where to Look for Them, Part III
- Green Jobs: What They Are and Where to Look for Them, Part II
- Male Sex Stereotyping: Going Where No Man Has Gone Before
- Green Jobs: What They Are and Where to Look for Them, Part I
- Job Applicant Rejection Letter Dos and Donts — Writing an Appropriate “Dear John” Letter to an Unsuccessful Applicant
- Expensive Trade Secret Protection Lesson for Employer — $17.5 Million Verdict in Lawsuit Over Employee’s Hard Drive
- Tough Job Interview Question: “What Is Your Greatest Weakness?”Three Tips for Answering This One
- Online Job Search and Recruitment Part III — Five Tips for Getting Your Online Resume Noticed
- Supreme Court’s Decision on Arbitration of Statutory Discrimination Claims Under Collective Bargaining Agreement Will Have Little Real World Effect
- The “Tell Me About Yourself” Interview Question: Answer It With a Memorable Story
- The Best Time to Schedule an Interview
- Online Job Search and Recruitment Part II — Free Help with Your Job Search is Only a Library Away
- Major Health Insurance Cost Development: Insurers Willing to Cease Health-Based Price Discrimination
- Teens: Finding the Job That’s Right for You
- Online Job Search and Recruitment Part I: The Classifieds Have Gone Electric!
- Startup Entrepreneurship — Six Tips for Avoiding Common Pitfalls While Bootstrapping a New Firm
- [AIG Bonus] Contracts Are Made To Be Broken — Or Are They?
- Cutting Costs Without Layoffs? 14 Tips for Employers Seeking Alternatives to Pink Slips
- The Employee Free Choice Act: The Debate Heats Up
- Informational Interviews: Ten Steps for Getting the Most from Them
- Maintaining Morale During Your Job Search: Top 15 Tips
- Job Interview Advice: How to Answer “Tell Me About Yourself” and Other Tough Job Interview Questions
- Making a Resume: What to Do if You Make a Mistake
- Survey Documents Impact of Recession on Employee Health and Integrity
- Three Habits of Highly Effective Job Seekers
- Changes in FMLA Regulations Are Here – Are You Ready?
- Write Resume Cover Letters: 5 Tips for Success
- Black History Month — Remembering Every Black Man and Woman’s Contributions, Part III — Looking to the Future
- Black History Month — Remembering Every Black Man and Woman’s Contributions, Part II — Refocusing Our View of History
- Charming the Stimulus Act COBRA:New COBRA Rights and Employer Obligations
- Black History Month — Remembering Every Black Man and Woman’s Contributions, Part I — The Unpaid Wages of Slavery
- Resume Tip: Five Ways To Prevent Emailed Resumes From Getting Blocked as Spam
- Evaluating Potential EmployersEmployee Gripe Sites and the Real Way to Find the Best Companies to Work For
- Resume Tip: The 5 Most Basic to Remember
- Resume Style – Why Is It Important?
- New Family And Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Regulations Address Wide Range of Issues
- Resume Format Sample: Choosing Yours
- Resume Assistance For You
- Need Help With Resume?
- Creating a Resume: How Should You Go About It?
- Notice Rules Under New Family And Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Regulations –- Employers Win Some And Lose Some
- Your Friday Silver Lining — Unemployment News: Better Than It Looks
- Banking Employee’s Bonuses — Another Perspective
- New Resource for Finding, Thriving in Government Jobs
- The Top Ten (Actually, Eleven) Steps to Get You From College to Career
- Friday Humor — Singing the Wonders of HR
- Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Signed by President Obama
- (Taxpayer-Financed) Bankers’ Bonuses Redux
- CardCheck Under the Employee Free Choice Act — Will It End Free Choice for Workers?
- Advice to Older Workers, Retirees, and Pre-Retirees from “Rewiring® Guru”
- NLRB to Consider Ordering Shuttered Window & Door Plant Reopened
- How to Format Your Resume: Form Matters Just as Much as Content
- Friday Humor — “You Won’t Have to Pay No Attorneys!”
- President Calls for “National Day of Renewal & Reconciliation” Via Proclamation & Blog; Will Still Use Blackberry
- Jobs for Stay at Home Moms — and Dads — at Give A Mom a Job.com
- “We Must Pick Ourselves Up, Dust Ourselves Off, and Begin Again the Work of Remaking America.”
- Employment Applications: Common Errors, Omissions, and Red Flags
- George Blogs on Protecting Your Company During Layoffs
- Share the Love — And Help with Someone’s Job Search
- Overtime Pay, the FLSA & “Time Theft” — Part I (Introduction and White-Collar Exemptions)
- The “Fraudies Awards” for Employee Fraud — Recognizing 2008’s Clueless Corporate Scammers (Friday Humor?)
- Employment Law Prediction: Jury Sympathies in Recession Times
- Banking Bonus & Incentive Pay Dilemmas
- The 12 Days of Christmas Job Hunting
- Caroline Kennedy, the Senate, Qualifications of Mothers & My Birthday
- “MENTORrific” Job & Life Coaching for Teens
- My Holiday Photo Card to Readers
- Suffering From The Sidelines
- The Top Ten Things You Don’t Want to Do During Your Job Interview
- The Recession and Increasing Employee Theft: Understanding and Preventing Employee Theft
- HR Metrics and Strategic Human Resources Planning
- How To Provide Reasonable Accommodations Under the ADA For Individuals With Hearing Impairments
- Humanize Your Job Search
- Riding the Federal Job Wave: 10 Secrets For Landing Federal Jobs
- Despite Economy, Small Businesses Plan Holiday Parties
- Layoff Survivor — What’s Your Plan?
- Riding the Federal Job Wave: Seven Ways to Impress Federal Employers
- Top 7 Mistakes Hiring Managers Make When Advertising Open Positions
- Riding the Federal Job Wave: Five Ways to Conduct a Federal Job Search
- The Best in Business Gift & Holiday Bonus Advice
- Navigating the Intersection of Telecommuting and Wage-and-Hour Law
- Riding the Federal Job Wave: Seven Myths About Federal Employment
- Recession Prompts More Brown Bag Lunches and Other Employee Spending Cutbacks
- Court Upholds Nonrenewal of Teacher Contract Over MySpace Activity
- Is Workplace Bullying Cause for Concern?
- Election Day Impressions
- Will This National Election Jeopardize Workplace Elections?
- The Career Clinic Offers Advice for Recession-Era Career-Changers
- Recesssion Can Mean Opportunity
- My First Political Endorsement
- Better Reference Checks in Far Less Time
- Welcome to Our New Staff Member!
- Career Development for Less – or Even Free!
- Most Companies Have Diversity Strategies
- Staying Afloat in a Sea of Sinking Markets: Help for Career Changes During Hard Times
- It’s the Economy, Stupid!
- Not Just a Bailout for the Rich; Mental Health Parity Law Comes Along for the Ride
- Do’s and Don’ts of Hiring an Independent Contractor
- Halloween in the Workplace? It Depends…
- News Flash: ADA Amendments Signed into Law
- Fifty-Five or Over? We Want You — To Work
- Retail Scheduling Software Could Harm Employee Morale, As Well As Customer Service
- ADA Amendments — What Difference Will They Make If They Become Law? (Part III)
- How to Choose and Hit Job Search Targets Creatively
- Part II: ADA Amendments — What Difference Will They Make If They Become Law?
- “Blind Hiring” to Avoid Bias: Wave of the HR Future, or “Blind Alley”?
- Unemployment Benefits Extension: Effective Counterweight to Slowing Economy?
- Bulletproofing Employment Investigations
- House Widely Approves ADA Amendments, But What Difference Will They Make If They Become Law?
- Lunchtime Advice for Success & Health
- Hiring Managers Slow to Accept Online Degrees
- Benefits Crippling Large and Small Businesses Alike
- Interviewing Skills: Starting with the Phone
- Top 100 Law Blogs List (We’re Included!)
- Talent Management — Roles of Lawyers & HR Pros
- Survey Says Taleo Best Recruitment Software Option
- Professional Resumes and the Debutante
- Four Supreme Court Employment Decisions in One Day!
- Successful Personal eBranding Strategies
- Supreme Court Limits Public Employee Equal Protection Claims
- As Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Debate Heats Up, NLRB Reiterates It’s Illegal to Bar Employee Discussion of Compensation
- Tons of Free Stuff Here !
- Introducing New Intern, Andrew King
- Growing Popularity of Temporary Executive Level Jobs
- The Resume is Alive and Kickin’
- Supreme Court Implies Retaliation Prohibition Twice in One Day
- 9 Ways to Succeed in Your Next Job Interview
- Is Ledbetter Fair Pay Act Needed?
- Senate Blocks Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
- Insider Tips to Put Your Resume On Top
- Starting Low, Hitting High
- Internship Basics
- He Really Needs a Job (Friday Humor)
- Family & Medical Leave Act News, Part II — Proposed Revisions to Regulations
- Family & Medical Leave Act News, Part I — Military Family Leave Rights
- Lay-Offs — Are You Next?
- Healthcare Jobs with the VA
- Employee Survey Use & Design
- Supreme Court Punts Sprint “Me Too” Evidence Case Back to Lower Court
- Eight Steps to Finding and Creating the Work You Love
- Supreme Court Makes ERISA Sausage
- Some Things to Know Before Negotiating Salary with a New Employer
- How to Choose Where To Post Your Job Ad
- Love in the Workplace: Dreamy or Dangerous?
- Recent Growth of CareerBuilder Impressive
- Does the ADA (Americans With Disabilities Act) Need “Restoration”?
- Two Ways to Network Smarter
- Judge Gives NASA Lesson on Background Checks
- 2008 Workworld Predictions: Looking into the Crystal Ball, Part II — Outlook by Occupation/Industry & US Economic Indicators
- Search Engine Tip: The “AND” Operator with a Punch
- 2008 Workworld Predictions: Looking into the Crystal Ball, Part I — Big Picture Trends
- The Banking Bonus & Incentive Pay Dilemmas
- Survey: Much Business Use of Social Network Sites
- St. Louis-Based Company Attracts Gen. Y Grads — and Used Car Customers
- Guess Which Blog Is #17 in the “Career 100 Global Ranking of Top English-language Career Blogs”?
- Are Today’s Applicants Dumber?
- Humor & Gore in Safety Training Videos — Effective?
- IT Jobs Outlook, From Dept. of Labor
- Internships and the Job Search
- New Options For George’s News Headlines
- Rule of Law Must Be Restored in Pakistan
- Resume Writing for Teens
- Trucks and Guns: An Employment Law Fable, Part II (Workers’ Comp & Workplace Violence)
- Trucks and Guns: An Employment Law Fable, Part I (Overtime for Truck Drivers)
- Transgender Employees: What’s an Employer to Do?
- Attorneys Brag of Shutting Down Company
- Making Small Cos. Great Places to Work
- Live, From Dublin, It’s Blawg Review
- Employers Beware: Costly Overtime Suits Big Trend
- Friday Humor: From a Federal Judge, No Less
- What’s an Idea Market?
- Background Checks and the Job Search
- Proving Discrimination: Back to Basics
- Labor Dept. Training Disabled Vets in IT Work
- Much Employee Creativity Unused on Job
- How to Write a Great Reference Letter
- Firemen’s Dog Food Prank Could Cost City Millions
- Blawg Review # 126 » Small Business Trends
- “Dear Bosses” — Friday Humor?
- New Study Blames “Bad Bosses” on Lack of Training
- Remembering 9/11 — Were You at Work When You Heard?
- Blogging About Blogging: Always a Formula for Success (Blawg Review #125 @ Kevin O’Keefe’s “Real Lawyers Have Blogs”)
- State of the Union(s): A Labor Day Follow-Up, With Questions
- Friday Humor: Elvis Is in the Building For a Job Interview (Video)
- The Very Best of the Very Many Blawgs in My Labor Day Blawg Review
- Blawg Review #124; Labor Day Special Historical Edition
- Wanna Start a Company in Your Garage? Go Work for a Big Company First.
- How To Determine Whether an Employee Has a Right to Time Off for a Religious Holiday
- Anti-Union Website Credited in Nurses’ Union Decertification Vote at Hospital
- BlawgWorld 2007 with TechnoLawyer Problem/Solution Guide Now Available (and We’re Honored To Be Included)
- It Takes a Village – Career Development Coaching and Mentoring Programs on the Rise
- Check Out New Business Directory From DirectoryM
- Great Link Collection on 99 Business and Management Subjects, Including HR, Under “Leadership” Theme
- Authoritative Summary of Law on Family Responsibilities Discrimination
- Hospital Comparison Tool May Lead to More Affordable Healthcare
- Lessons from an EEOC Wall Street harassment lawsuit
- Intern Katie heads off on European Odyssey
- Poker, Anyone? Cultural Fit and The Hiring Process
- 9 Tips to Beat the Heat and Look Professional: Women
- 9 Tips to Beat the Heat and Look Professional: Men
- Take Your Dog To Work Day
- Two Ways to “Reverse” Your Job Search
- Teen Summer Jobs: Rethinking Fast Food Option?
- Stay-at-Home Workers Miss Office Atmosphere
- Recruiters Can Be Liable for Discrimination
- Plain Speaking About Really Bad “Fair Pay” Bill
- Teens May Need to Look Hard for Summer Jobs
- Another New Face at the Blawg
- Tackling Recruiting Sourcers’ Challenges
- Ledbetter Case: Supreme Court Upholds Time Limits on Title VII Pay Discrimination Cases in 5-4 Decision
- Are Generation Y’s Parents Too Involved?
- EEOC Issues Guidance on Family Responsibilities Discrimination
- Mommified: Social Science Evidence of Discrimination Against Mothers
- A New Face at the Employment Blawg
- What Millenials Want Out of Work: A Baby Boomer Rejoinder
- New Website for Recruiting Professionals
- Great list of job search and interview tips
- What Millennials (Generation Y) Want Out of Work
- Your computer can “testify” against you even when it’s in the landfill
- Coca-Cola “cat’s paw” subordinate bias case dismissed on settlement week before Sup. Ct. arguments
- $55 million settlement in FedEx race discrimination class action
- Where’s George? Help is on the way!
- What’s happening with employment opportunities for the “older worker”?
- George’s 15 minutes of fame — quoted in TIME Magazine on video resumes — with Friday video humor thrown in for good meaure
- Friday humor; introducing a new drug testing option
- Five Tips to Jump Start Your Network
- Should You Really Write that in a Corporate Blog? Legal Guidelines for Company-Sanctioned Blogs
- Jobster to make Facebook tool for jobseekers
- Hurry up and get your FMLA comments in!
- Is anyone taking “The Office” seriously? Should we?
- Technolawyer sends George to New York to party!
- Ad campaign attacks unions’ record on employment discrimination; Center for Union Facts site is good resource
- Friday humor: the salary theorem
- My favorite productivity tool: voice recognition software
- “My cubicle” — Friday workplace humor
- MLK Day: workplace diversity is good business
- A maternity clothing store discriminating against pregnant women?
- Supreme Court to hear Coca-Cola “cat’s paw” case
- Three reference sites — for general HR, overtime rules, and technology policies
- 2007 Workworld forecasts: looking into the crystal ball
- When I grow up . . . (Friday Humor — Video)
- War, Pestilence, and the Second Coming: Is your Workplace Ready?
- Excellent Hiring Tips About Key Personal Qualities
- New Blawg Design for the New Year
- Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part III
- Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part I
- It’s holiday party time!
- Basic ADA mistake leads to $2.2 Million Settlement
- Trying something new for the Blogroll
- EEOC, OFCCP debate discrimination in recruiting and hiring
- New survey illuminates top HR concerns
- Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking, Part II
- A nice new blog; three excellent Web 2.0 apps
- Halloween in the Workplace: How Do You Celebrate?
- Family Responsibilities Discrimination?
- EEOC Takes On Big Labor, Big Law
- High-Tech, Impersonal Firings Not Good Idea
- Plain Talk About Employment Testing From Bob Brady, a Straight Shooter
- Health Care Cost Crisis Inspires Sucessful New Strategies
- More on Electronic Evidence of Employee Disloyalty
- Electronic Evidence: Who Benefits the Most, Employers or Employees?
- Labor Day Special
- College Recruiter.com’s Friday Humor Offensive
- Employers Using Facebook for Background Checking: Is It Legal?
- Beyond “Name, Rank & Serial No.” in Reference Checking
- What Happens When an Employee Has Cancer?
- Suing Competitors for Using Illegals
- Surprisingly Well-Paid Jobs; Not Surprisingly Dangerous Ones
- EEOC Files Suit Over Racial Slurs; George Learns a New One (To Not Use)
- George Participates in Fast Company’s BlogJam with Post on Workplace Trends
- Friday Humor: What Are You Working For?
- Contract Drafting: When Is a Comma Worth $2 M? When Is Boilerplate Not Boilerplate?
- A Short Course in Labor History
- Excellent Guide To Handling Workplace Harassment and Discrimination Complaints
- Friday Workplace Humor: True Story About a Performance Review?
- Customers vs. Employees: The Customer Isn’t Always Right
- Pros and Cons of 360 Degree Feedback
- Friday Humor: Casual Day
- More on Employers’ Immigration Obligations
- Some Immigration Law Tips for Employers
- Proving the Obvious? Good HR is Good Business, Study Finds
- Another List of the Best Careers
- Lawyer Humor, Only Slight Exaggeration
- Time for Friday Humor
- New Blog to Cover Telework Issues
- The Wobblies (IWW union) at a food co-op?
- Vertical Job Search Engine Developments
- Why Harassment Training is Essential & Must Go Beyond Sexual Harassment
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- The New Era for George’s Employment Blawg, Sans Michael
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- Adding to Our Blogroll Another Blog That Likes Us
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- News Flash: Ken Lay Dead
- Even More On FedEx’s Use of the BST Testing: Is It Really Valid?
- Follow-Up to EEOC’s Investigation of FedEx’s Employment Testing
- Study Reveals the Best Corporate Career Sites
- Depictions of Working Women in Film
- Friday Humor: Why Do Consultants Charge So Much?
- Underpaid? Overpaid? Try This Website for Lots of Pay Surveys
- Staying Current in HR: Check Out These (Mostly) Free Webinars!
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- Working Virtually: Team Work in an E-World
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- Fundamentals of Being a Good Trainer/Presenter
- Friday Humor: Describing My Work History
- The Telecommuting Imperative
- When Bullying Becomes A Case of Sexual Harassment
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- How Not to Respond to a Harassment Complaint
- One Part Las Vegas Plus One Part Videogame=Motivated Employees!
- OFCCP Publishes Final Standards for Analysis of Systemic Compensation Discrimination
- Three Cheers for Vacations!
- Welcome Back: George Should Be Back Now
- Friday Humor: The Job Application As a Screening Tool
- Does Your State Let You Look At Your Personnel File?
- So You Want to Start Your Own Business? Take a Test of Your Entrepreneurship Knowledge
- E-Mail Terminations On the Rise
- Posh Hotel Settles English-Only Lawsuit
- Interesting, but Irrelevant Facts, For Friday
- EEOC Investigates Potential Nationwide Test Discrimination At FedEx
- Will YOU Be Able to Afford Retirement?
- Disparate TREATMENT vs. Disparate IMPACT
- Job Hunting in the 21st Century: A lot More Complicated Than It Used to Be (Part 1)
- Read, Aimed, FIRED! The First Year on the Job May Be Deadly!
- Our Blog Listed Among Just Three HR Blogs in FastCompany
- Cover Letters: Tips for Job Hunters
- Spotlight on Legal Issues in Recruitment: OFCCP and EEOC Making Life More Complex For Recruiters and Companies
- George Soon Off For Family Heritage Trip!
- Justice Roberts Sends Strong Message of Supreme Court Unity
- Book Review: Diversity Recruitment Advertising Toolkit
- Friday Humor: Sayings That Should Be On Inspirational Posters
- What Web Sites Do Employees Visit During Work: It Depends On Whom You Ask!
- Diversity Recruitment: A Lot More Than Just Some Words On Paper
- Unconscious Bias and Employment Discrimination: Is the Name Bielby Involved?
- Friday Humor: Good Old Mad Magazine
- Discrimination Proof 101 — Indirect Evidence Prima Facie Case
- Successful Recruitment Programs NOT a bag of tricks and fads
- New Class Action Lawsuit Aimed Against Restaurant Chain
- To Proctor or Not to Proctor: That is the Question for Some Internet Tests
- EEOC Starts Focusing On Recruitment and Hiring Discrimination
- How Can This Not Be Actionable Sexual Harassment?
- Pros and Cons of Company-Sponsored Blogging
- Friday Humor: New Management Styles
- Still Curious About That Employee-Spanking Case? Of Course You Are!
- Managing the Poor Interviewer: Tips for Interviewees
- More Interesting Articles from The Plaintiff’s Perspective
- I’m Back from Dallas, TX Conference
- Discrimination Because of “Sex” Isn’t Necessarily Sex Discrimination
- Friday Humor: George Costanza’s Tips for Working Hard
- Thinking About Switching Jobs? Listen to Rita
- Five Mistakes To Avoid When Terminating Employees
- Pay-for-Performance: A Nice Resource
- More Damages in Spanking Case!
- Get Spanked by your Employer, Win 1/2 million dollars!
- Signs You Have a Cheap HMO
- Friday (Visual) Humor — a Day Early
- How NOT To Do Employee Training: Spanking Trainees
- Wal-Mart Wins — Racially Offensive Comments Insufficient to Make Terminated Employee’s Case
- The Next Big Wal-Mart Controversy: Rotating Shifts
- New Roles for HR Managers
- Cool Recruiting Trick
- Determining What the Popular Job Sites Are For Recruiting
- Transgender Discrimination Claim Against Library of Congress Fascinates
- Friday Humor: New Additions to the Workplace Vocabulary
- EEOC Releases New Compliance Manual on Race and Color Discrimination
- Supreme Court Hears Argument in Retaliation Case
- Wal-Mart Releases Diversity Information: But Is There Enough Information There?
- Dear John: Some Potential Suggestions for Writing Applicant Rejection Letters
- Religious Discrimination Against a Witch?
- Supreme Court Votes to Allow Citation to Unpublished Opinions in Federal Courts
- Hiring An Expert Witness: What Not To Do
- How Can A Plaintiff Establish Unlawful Retaliation, Yet Win No Damages?
- We’re Susan’s Blog of the Week!
- It Just Doesn’t Stop: More Q & A’s on the OFCCP’s Internet Applicant Definition
- Is Refusal to Support Christian Employee Group Religious Discrimination?
- For the More Serious Minded: Free Download of Webinar on OFCCP Internet Applicant!
- Happy Belated April Fools’ Day
- “Tell Me About Yourself” The 25 Toughest Interview Questions (and Tips on How to Answer Them!)
- When In Rome, What Do You Do?
- BlawgWorld 2006 Now Available for Download Here, No Strings Attached
- Michael’s Upcoming Speaking Engagement
- Good Interview on Implications of Aging Workforce
- Latest Update on OFCCP’s Internet Applicant Definition and the Implications for Companies
- The FMLA 12-Month Period: How Is It Calculated?
- Friday Humor: Lots of Cartoons!
- How productive are telecommuters? It depends.
- Think You Understand Overtime Laws? Try This Quiz To See!
- First there was IQ, then came EQ, and now there is CQ
- Advice on Keeping Your Corporate Job Without Losing Your Soul
- Case Comparing Nurse Practitioners to Physician Assistants Illustrates Equal Pay Act Basics
- What Time Is It? Why, It Is Time for Some Friday Humor!
- Googling Your Way to a Job
- Workplace Accommodations Report: They Are Worth It!
- Learning From Your Searches: Ideas for Future Posts
- Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Employment Testing (But Didn’t Know Where to Ask)
- Perverse Economic Impact of Laws Inhibiting Employment Termination: French Government “Gets It”; French Protesters Don’t
- Jury Awards 6.5 Million to Employee With Panic Disorder
- St. Patrick’s Day Friday Semi-Humorous Career Tips
- Yep, its Friday Again and Time For More Humor!
- Hush, Money . . . NOT: It May Be Illegal To Prevent Your Workers From Discussing Their Salaries
- Unemployed or Looking to Change Jobs? Some Hopeful Job Market News and Interview Tips
- New Development on Employment Termination for Guns in Company Parking Lots
- Court Upholds ADA Verdict Against UPS in Psychiatric Disability Case
- How Does Your Employee Engagement At Work Stack Up?
- Beyond the Gold Watch and Employee of the Month: Reflections on Employee Recognition Programs
- TGIF Humor: Work in the 21st Century
- Its 8am: Do You Know Where Your Employees Are (On the Internet)?
- Is Your Company A Target for A Discrimination Class Action Suit? Ten Factors to Consider
- Top 6 Things You Should Know About Employment Law
- Wal-Mart in the News — A Lot! (Part II)
- Fascinating Facts About Telecommuters
- Hear All, Hear All: Internet Job Boards Form New Industry Association
- ADA and Work Tardiness: Is Coming to Work Late a Reasonable Accommodation?
- Friday Humor: Matching Employees to Jobs
- All Aboard: Five Tips for Successful On-Boarding Programs (f/k/a Employee Orientation)
- 21st Century Interviews: Nothin’ But the Net (Hirevue.com)
- Was My College Tuition Worth It? Top Starting Salaries for Undergrads
- The Changing Role of Religion in the Workplace: Workplace Religious Freedom Act May Be the Next Civil Rights Law
- Two Employment Cases Decided by Supreme Court
- The Latest Survey of Hiring Sources: The Highlights and Some Interesting Findings on Diversity Recruitment
- Marketing Your Company to Job Applicants: The Devil is in the Details!
- Employee Referral Programs: New Opportunities for Theft?
- Employment Testing: A Diversity of Views
- No Wonder They Hate HR: And This Ain’t Gonna Help!
- The Legal Risks of Hiring Temps And Outsourcing Work: What You Don’t Know Can Really Hurt You
- Where’s George?
- Getting Applicants to Join: Marketing Your Company
- Does Your Organization Pass Muster on Ethical Standards?
- Follow-Up Reference to Reference Checks: A Summary
- Even More on the OFCCP Internet Applicant Definition
- Everything You Wanted to Know About Reference Checking And Didn’t Know Where to Ask
- Latest Recruiting Trends: Where Do Applicants Come From? What Sources Have the Best ROI?
- Cupid Draw Back Your Bow and Let Your Arrow Go; Straight to My Coworker’s (?) Heart….
- Religious Tolerance: Going A Little Too Far
- Bloomberg’s Solitaire Termination
- Multi-Million Dollar Overtime Compensation Settlement
- This Just In: EEOC Reports Slight Decline In Discrimination Charges for 2005
- Think You Are Unbiased? You May Be Wrong!
- Need Interviewing Practice? Go Online!
- From the Other Side of the Fence: The Impact of the OFCCP Internet Applicant Regs on Job Hunting
- Believe It Or Not: Amazing Interview Stories
- Hah, Hah, Hah, Huh???? Should This Testing Humor Get A Failing Grade?
- Beyond Gun Bans: Understanding and Preventing Workplace Violence
- Pst…Wanna Know What the Jobs With Big Demand and Big Bucks Are?
- Job Market Looking Up for Employees; Economic Consequences Mixed
- Do You Live to Work or Work to Live: Maybe You Are A Workaholic!
- KISS Principle (Keep It Simple, Stupid) Applied to Recruitment: A Basic Checklist For Improving Recruitment
- Criticisms of OFCCP Internet Applicant Definition Continue to Pour In: Companies Beware!
- Controversy Over Guns At Work Continues to Rage
- EEOC Issues Final Revisions and Q & A to EEO-1 Report
- The Battle of the Vertical Job Search Engines
- More on Emotional Intelligence
- A Quiz for your Emotional Intelligence
- Tired Of Giving Your Survey Opinions? Here Is A Cartoon For You!
- A Great Educational Use of Blogging
- EEOC Sanctioned for Frivolous Lawsuit
- Worrying About Complying With New Internet Applicant Guidelines? OFCCP Issues Some Relief!
- Politically-Correct (Christmas) Holiday Parties
- Monster Tackles OFCCP Internet Applicant Definition Changes
- Software Review — Thompson’s Employee Handbook Builder
- The Passing of Judge McMillian: Recalling a Pioneering African-American Lawyer and Judge
- Q & As on Internet Applicant Definition Released
- Computerized Word-Frequency Analysis Hints at Judicial Temperament
- Pensions and Distributed Work: An Unlikely Pair of Trend-to-Watch Topics
- Blawg Update
- Funny comic about blogs
- Alito Will Lean Right, Suggests Washington Post Photo
- Alito Will Lean Right, Suggests Washington Post Photo
- Cintas ranked top employer in Canada — Huh?
- Lawsuit Takes On Aggressive Union Organizing Tactics
- Lessons From NYC Transit Strike: Who’s Right, Who’s Wrong?
- Government Contractors Go “Offshore” for Tech Workers: to Rural America
- Blawg Review Greets New Year With Blogging Resolutions From One of the Best
- Coming Soon: Major Transit Strike Post
- Forced to Hire Someone For Reasons Other Than Job Qualifications: Recent Poll Indicates This Is A Common Issue
- Vote for Us in the 2005 Recruiting Blog Awards, So We Can Drink (Coffee) to Excess or Perhaps Even Go to Vegas
- When Is A Performance Evaluation A Form of Defamation?
- What’s Your Learning Style?
- Incidence of Employment Discrimination: Is Perception Reality?
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for December 12, 2005
- Contingent Fee Does Not Include Cut of Reinstated Client’s Future Wages and Benefits
- TGIF: How About A Little Humor To Brighten Your Day?
- Latest Discrimination Class Action Target: Best Buy (will Target be next target?)
- Another Aspect of Diversity: Cross-Cultural Awareness
- Read All About It: New Internet Applicant Definition Causing Corporate Uproar
- High Court to Hear Workplace Retaliation Case
- Vote for Us in the 2005 Recruiting Blog Awards
- More on Minutes Adding Up Under Recent Supreme Court Fair Labor Standards Act Case
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for December 5, 2005
- So You Thought You Were An Expert: Basic Tips for Attorneys On Deposing Experts
- Articles on Diversity and Related Resources and Thoughts
- Free New BlawgWorld 2006 Publication
- Why We Hate HR: Some Solutions
- The Professor Offers Free Employment Law Class: Don’t Miss This Opportunity
- Harvard Rx for Health Insurance Costs — at a Price
- Those Minutes Add Up: Recent Supreme Court Case Highlights Fair Labor Standards Act Compliance
- Joint Employment as a Desired Outcome
- 2005: The Year of the Recruitment Revolution?
- All (On)Board: Four Big “No Nos” of “OnBoarding” (aka: New Employee Orientation Program)
- Applebees’ Reduces Turnover Using Metrics, Accountability, and Rewards
- When this Blawg’s Michael Harris Speaks, Reporters as Well as Students Listen
- Did EEOC “Overlawyer” the Dial Corp. Employment Testing Case?
- Where Do College Educated, Ethnically Diverse Job Seekers Look for Jobs?
- EEOC’s Final PROPOSED Changes to EEO-1 Report
- Blawg Review Veterans Day Edition Commands Respect; Leads to Thoughts on Shopping (Huh?)
- The Truth About Retaining Workers: Employers and Employees Have Different Views
- Defense Lawyers Come Out Swinging…And I Don’t Mean From Branches
- BlawgThink Day 2
- BlawgThink Day One
- You’ve Come A (Really) Long Way, Baby!
- It takes you HOW long to go?
- BlawgThink 2005
- Middle Management Job Dissatisfaction Presents Opportunities for Recruiters and Companies That “Get” Current Human Resources Issues
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for November 7, 2005
- Wal-Mart in the News — a Lot!
- Do Workplace Gun Bans Help or Hinder Workplace Violence Prevention?
- Halloween Fun in the Workplace
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for October 31, 2005
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for October 1-26, 2005
- Much More on Strength Test with Disparate Impact on Women
- Blawg Review Double Play
- Mixed Messages on Sexual Harassment — and a Movie Too
- Outsourcing Legal Work (to India or to the Midwest?)
- New EEOC Guidance on ADA “Association” Discrimination
- Dial To Pay $3M for Strength Test with Disparate Impact on Women
- Observations on Fading Boundaries Between Blue and White Collar Work
- Reducing Long Hours Worked by Restaurant Managers
- Update on Post-Katrina Employment Picture
- MOVED TO NEW LOCATION!
- Who is an Applicant?
- Seriously?
- Tort Reform and Contingent Fees: Practical and Ethical Considerations
- Previewing Employment Cases on Supreme Court Docket
- Skipping Work to Watch the Playoffs
- Feedburner’s On Fire Again
- Appearance Back to Normal
- Apologies: Shoemaker Stick to Your Last!
- Employment Branding And Google: Nice Example of Video and Webpages
- Monster Offers Wealth of Job-Related Content
- Take This Job and SHOCK it?!?!?!
- Look Before You Learn: Evaluating OnLine MBA Programs
- Questioning Value of Employee-Referral Programs — and Improving Them
- Feedburner Feed Temporarily Down
- Forget $4 a gallon gas — it may be $5 per gallon gas
- Hot Trends In Recruitment and Selection
- The Secrets to Happiness…
- Don’t Fight Back! Avoiding Retaliation Claims
- New Address, New Look, New Ideas
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for September 19, 2005
- New Feature: Our Recent Reading
- Sexual Harassment Training Overkill
- Patriotic Alternative to Offshoring
- Wanted: Access to Comparative Healthcare Quality and Cost Info.
- Even more Laughs! And This One Is Actually Funny!
- Monster.com is on Board the Katrina Jobs Train
- Monster.com is on Board the Katrina Jobs Train
- Need a Little Laugh? I Do….So Read “Who’s Kidding”
- Need a Little Laugh? I Do….So Read "Who’s Kidding?"
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for September 13, 2005
- HR/Employment Blogosphere Update for September 13, 2005
- Getting Ready to Interview? Check www.interviewat.com
- Blog This Story: Queen of Sky Sues Delta for Firing
- Blog This Story: Queen of the Sky Sues Delta For Firing
- Flattery Will Get You Everywhere….Including the Courtroom
- Good news, bad news about this blog (mostly good)
- Comment to read
- A few lessons from a race discrimination case involving termination of an attorney
- Need a Good Laugh? Try "Read Between Lines…"
- More on HR profession’s Katrina response
- Economic Impact of Katrina: Forecasts and Predictions
- Creating A Blogging Policy: Suggestions For Companies
- More on Employers’ Responses to Katrina: Legal Obligations and Suggestions
- Continuing pay and benefits for Katrina victims; offering aid to displaced businesses so people can get back to work
- Labor Day Special : Labor Law Stories
- Hurricane Katrina: Blog for Relief Weekend
- Hiring Katrina refugees: a generous first step
- Important Katrina comments for businesses and employment professionals
- Staring In the Crystal Ball: Trends and Forecasts for Hiring, Compensation, and Retention
- Ernie the Attorney is back, with first hand Katrina tales aplenty
- Seriously now, please give for Katrina victims
- Need a Good Laugh? Read About the Consultant and the Shepherd!
- To Tell the Truth: The Truth About Detecting Deception
- "Love Litigating Lawyers Day"
- $4.00 Gas Around the Corner: Impact on Job Market and Economy???
- Fixin’ Up Your Internet College Campus Recruitment Site: With Examples
- We’ll Sue You: The Courts Rule on Internet Gripe Sites
- That’s A Crime: Assessing The Accuracy of Criminal Record Databases
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 29, 2005
- Elefant’s Blawg Review # 21 fascinates
- Transgender Issues in the Workplace: Tip of the Iceberg?
- Praying For Help: More On Religion In the Workplace
- Makeup discrimination case continues to fascinate
- Need a good laugh? Read here about the recruiter choosing between Heaven and Hell
- SHRM’s Reply to Fast Company Article on Why We Hate HR
- Company Recruiting, Hiring, and Retention Practices Impact Bottom Line
- Website finally done
- Are Blogs Last Year’s Fad?
- The Little Red School House of the 21st Century Is A…
- Look! Mommy’s on TV!
- And Fly Away From Here: NorthWest Airlines Mechanics on Strike and The Airline Keeps Flying (for now, anyhow)
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 22, 2005
- Monster.com may grow up to be a dinosaur: The First Sentence in a Recent Article
- Another "Happy Birthday" With Some Interesting Trends
- Work-life balance lesson from Willie Wonka and Charlie
- This Test Did Not Pass Labor Department’s Standards
- Correction
- Recruiting As Dating: The Interview Stage
- The Status of Class Action Employment Discrimination Lawsuits
- The Ten Commandments of Talent Management
- FMLA: The Devil Is In the Details!
- Dukes v. Walmart: Arguments In Front of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 15, 2005
- Bored out of a job?
- The Internet: looking back over revolutionary 10 years; looking forward to more
- Blawg Review #18: the Common Scold steps up to the plate
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 8, 2005
- Thoughtful response to my latest on "Why We Hate HR"
- Debate rages over "Why we Hate HR"
- Blawg Review #17
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for August 1, 2005
- Bloggers disadvantaged in the hiring process?
- Another Class Certification: New York State and Promotion Testing
- Quittin’ Time: How You Know When It is Time to Get a New Job
- HR as black sheep of dysfunctional corporate family
- Cancer and ADA in the Workplace: EEOC Releases New Q & A
- Follow-up To Online Job Scams
- Supreme Court nomination hot links; judging Judge Roberts on employment law
- She Don’t Love Me Afterall: They Hate HR Even More
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for July 25, 2005
- Happy Birthday, ADA….And Many, Many More!
- Quoted expert agrees with George: Calif. harassment case is out of mainstream
- Gettin’ Rich in 2006: Crystal Ball Views On Compensation Increases in 2006
- Rehnquist’s plight: when lawyers, journalists, and other logophiles hang on your every word
- Photo credits; confessions of a flickr voyeur
- Shirker, Critic, Competitor, Etc.: The Worst Kinds of Co-Workers
- On the Supreme Court nomination
- Blawg Review #15 a success; now even Supreme Court Justices blog!
- Cut Their Hours, Make Their Lives Miserable, and Hope They Quit: Why Pushing Employees to Quit May Backfire
- Three Georges reconciled; famous TV George also suffered from multiple-George syndrome
- Yet Another Reason to Avoid "Affairs of the Heart" At Work
- The Non-Violent, But Vengeful, Employee: Protecting Your Company From CyberSabotage
- Blawg Review #15
- Mental Illness and ADA: A Management Challenge
- Defining Vertical Job Search
- Slaying the Monster? Will Vertical Job Search Really Do It?
- Ask the Experts: Hot Trends in HRM
- No union, no worry about NLRB? Not so fast. . .
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for July 11, 2005
- Speaking of diploma mills
- FAQs on Employee Blogs: Nothing But the Facts!
- The Biggest FMLA Headache: What’s YOUR Guess?
- Man Bites Dog? New Oregon Law Applies to Job Applicants
- Busted and fired but (maybe) reinstated; improper employer surveillance trumps employee illegal drug use?
- An Update on Background Checking: What Did Ernie the Employee REALLY Do Last Year?
- Top Tens (actually sevens)
- Happy Fourth; check out Blawg Review’s special holiday edition
- Sleeping with the enemy: spammer stirs employer/employee digital paranoia
- Name your kid after a job? Who would do such a silly thing? Why?
- By the numbers
- More turnovers, please?
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for June 27, 2005
- The Pharmacy America Trusts Is Now Charged With Class Action Race Discrimination
- ADA, Personality Testing, and Slippery Slopes
- Speaking of Wal-Mart: anecdotal evidence
- Lively argument in casino makeup case
- Stick Out Your Tongue and Say: "Uh!" What Constitutes A "Medical Examination" Under ADA?
- Latest News on Dukes v. Wal-mart
- Whole Lot Of Fakin’ Going On? Do People Fake On Personality Tests?
- Questions to NOT Ask During the Interview: A Quick Review
- Tattoos & piercings remain hot topic, at least in St. Louis
- Best Corporate Job Sites of 2005
- St. Louis-based firm agrees to novel pact with UNITE union
- More on workers comp fraud — by employers this time
- Pre-register for .jobs!!
- Reflections on organized labor’s troubles
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for June 20, 2005
- Not so quiet storm: All roads will lead to the corporate career center
- Update: Testing 1, 2, 3….ADA and personality testing; Appeals Court Overturns Earlier Decision
- Nice list of niche job posting sites
- How common and costly is workers comp fraud?
- Monitoring employees without destroying trust & morale
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for June 13, 2005
- Was GM thinking about employee impact of new "employee discount for everyone" campaign?
- Should You Sue Your Employer? Research On Plaintiffs’ and Companies’ Success Rate In Federal Courts
- Equal Pay Act of 1963: A Brief Refresher
- Why Blogging Is GOOD For Your Career (Unless You Are Fired!)
- HR Don’t Get No Respect? You Can’t Blame This One On Lawyers … Or Can You?
- Employment Agencies Beware! Discrimination Laws Apply To You, Too
- What an idea for a new age law office!
- We Find You Vs. You Find Us: The Tale of Two Recruiting Paradigms
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for June 6, 2005
- Know Someone You Despise? Encourage Him or Her to Apply to the Grey Marketing Team
- Socioeconomic analysis of employment at will
- Disposing of trash: one man’s properly destroyed trash is another man’s spoliated evidence
- Found It: Most Bizarre Employment Law Cases of 2004
- Disposing of Trash: FTC Rule Goes Into Effect Yesterday!
- George stumbles onto vast treasure trove of HR links
- Positive development on employee blogging from Big Blue
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for June 1, 2005
- Shamelessly hustling your votes
- I’m Back: Let’s Chat About E-Mail Newsletters for Talent Recruitment
- This one smells
- George’s big three hot topics
- Insiders with axe to grind wreak cyber-havoc
- HR/Employment blogosphere update for May 23, 2005
- Tattoos in the workplace revisited
- Some favorites from this week’s Blawg Review
- Blawg Birthday
- Congressional Democrats Investigate Wal-Mart Pay and Promotion Data
- Reducing the Number of Poor Candidates That Apply: A "How To" Guide
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for May 16, 2005
- Law review, shmaw review; to get published where it matters submit to Blawg Review
- Take these chains from my heart and set me free — from that office
- Employment at will: when the shoe’s on the other foot
- Passive Candidates: A Contrarian View
- All aboard! Mistakes to avoid in employee orientation
- Won’t you let me take you on a sea(code) cruise?
- Librarians without books? A paper-based profession reinvents itself for the digital world
- Or, Too Much Time and Too Little Work!
- Too much work, too little time
- Vertical Job Search Engines: The Latest Approach to Internet Recruitment
- Catching up with the comments (a/k/a letters to the editor)
- Blogging For Recruitment: Take A Look At This Example
- Employee blogging as "cybersmear"
- I’m going to sue YOU, not just your company: What YOU should know
- Right-brain thinking a necessity for future jobs (a/k/a why I’m posting photos)
- Deja Vu Job Market: Where Have All the Jobs Gone?
- HR/Employment blogosphere update for May 2, 2005
- Big class action news: Sodhexo race case settled
- EEOC’s dubious statistics debunked in Burger King sexual harassment case
- Are YOU A Success?
- Telemedicine: The Next Frontier for Off-Shoring
- A writing exercise
- More on personality testing — from the bowels of our archives
- Ever Taken The Myers-Briggs Test? One Expert Tells You Why It Should NOT Be Used for Hiring
- Sound Policy discussion on Corporate Blogging
- And Union Membership Continues to Go Down, Down, Down
- The Trend in HR Outsourcing: Up, Up, and Away!
- If Baseball Teams Keep Stats, Why Can’t Businesses? Using Software to Inventory Talent
- Technorati blog tracking service upset with employee-blogger’s satirical poster on firing bloggers; censors but does not fire
- Blawg dreams
- Greatest hits, YTD
- Apologies
- Sound Policy show on tape; some more (deep?) thoughts on blogs, bloggers, and businesses
- Update: digging up dirt in finger case worked — and fast!
- Digging up dirt on opponents in litigation and conducting other factual investigation
- Proof of the obvious? Job bias based on personal appearance
- My annual April allergies: taxes or pollen?
- Losing sleep hurts job performance
- Dot.Jobs: The Newest Internet Domain….Good, Bad, or Indifferent?
- Will Blogs Supplant Job Boards and Other Online Recruitment Techniques?
- Latest Predictions for Recruiting
- Gads! Another collection of state links!
- George stumbles across treasure trove of links to state agencies
- Hungry for hunger
- Job Satisfaction: Heading Further South!
- Massive changes underway at large law firms; true causes of glass ceiling finally discovered by female journalist; Google unveils new product
- A new chapter on employers and bloggers
- Told you so! Update on Wednesday’s Supreme Court age discrimination decision
- Several items written for employees yield lessons for employers
- Another cool blawg project — they’re sprouting all around this week, just like April flowers
- Wow! Another cool blawg project is born!
- Supreme Court: disparate impact theory available under age act (ADEA)
- New blawg to watch
- Internal impact of discrimination litigation often not considered by lawyers
- Complimentary (in both senses of the word*) review of this blawg
- Judge Rules Chicago Fire Department Test To Be Discriminatory
- Destined to Be Off-Shored? A Recruiter Looks At Off-Shoring Recruitment
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for March 28, 2005
- Blogosphere yields gem of a job journal and takes me for a Saturday ride that beats heck out of reading the paper
- Job sharing and telecommunicating — will they continue to grow as "flexibility" options?
- More on functional capacity and similar testing
- My latest Hiring Center column is up
- A few quick links on the state of the US labor market(s)
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for March 21, 2005
- Developing corporate blogging policy; lawyers and publishers take on the challenge
- Overtime litigation booming since new rules became effective
- March madness and the workplace; then on to baseball
- Firing Bloggers: the topic that just won’t die; an invitation accepted; and an apology and clarification
- Our Firing Bloggers series linked, with good related links; other dangers of blogging; and tangent on law firms’ clumsy efforts to reduce turnover
- HR/Employment Blogosphere update for March 14, 2005
- Commenting competitively concerning a noncompete comment
- News on Wal-Mart class action — possible settlement nears?
- Trump settlement cleanses Apprentice application of ADA-offending language
- Unscheduled absences hit five year high, per CCH survey
- Bean counters taking hard look at paid time off — as liability and potential source of savings
- Another NPR drivetime audio link: trucking industry confronts shortage of Interstate "cowboys"
- On the importance of legal research; contracting it out for a flat rate
- No Love Lost: Corporate Hate Sites
- Great drivetime story tonight about workplace flexibility
- New Employee Seeks Leave Shortly After Starting Job
- Employment/HR blogosphere update for week of March 7, 2005
- More on harassment of teen workers
- Interesting and timely educational opportunity: crisis preparedness audio seminar
- Recruitment Sources in 2004: Where Companies Are Hiring From
- Is employee loyalty dead? Can it be revived? Another $4.00 download from Harvard Business Review
- My latest Hiring Center column
- A must-read "top ten" on avoiding litigation
- EEOC prevails in disparate impact gender case involving physical strength test
- Employers falling off drug testing bandwagon
- EEOC demonstrates modest settlement value of many harassment cases
- Weekly HR/employment blogosphere roundup for February 28, 2005
- The courthouse e-filing revolution; its impact on lawyers and law practice
- Handling Prayer Sessions In the Lunch Room and Other Tips for Avoiding Religious Discrimination
- Fast Food Businesses + Teenage Workers=Recipe for Harassment Issues
- The Latest Trend in Office Romance: Contractual Love
- Post-9/11 discrimination claim by Muslim pilot scuttled
- Top 20 Or So HR-related Blogs
- Top 25 Jobs For 2005: Do You Think Attorney Is Included???
- The Three Core Competencies For Anyone Who Does Recruiting
- Romance in the workplace update: survey results
- Making lemonade from FMLA lemons
- More on turnover reduction: profiling two companies’ efforts
- Hear All, Hear All: EEOC Announcing Major Lawsuits
- Weekly blogosphere update
- A klutzy Dad’s reflections on aptitude, training, and skiing
- Take This Job and Keep It! Reducing Employee Turnover
- Tweaking the newsreader/syndication options
- Is the FMLA the "the Far More Leave than anyone intended Act"?
- Praying For Help: Will 2005 Be Known As The Year of Religious Discrimination Charges?
- Ready, Aim, FIRED: Blogging Employees In the Spotlight Again (a/k/a Firing Bloggers Part V)
- Virtual Walk-Ins: A Powerful Recruitment Source
- EEOC Data for 2004
- What I was going to say for Valentine’s Day before Michael beat me to it!
- Love is in the air…….
- Weekly HR/Employment blogosphere roundup
- Strategies For Handling A Changing Workforce
- Websurfing find: HR portal contains massive, highly organized link collection
- How class actions encourage greed
- New EEOC small business guide available
- Now coming to you wireless from the living room and Starbucks
- Michael writes about improving diversity in recruitment and hiring
- Around the HR/Employment blogosphere
- Are we truly shameless? (Well I did like the Garth Brooks song of that name)
- For four bucks learn top five hiring mistakes from Harvard Business Review
- Practical HR insight on handbooks from fellow blogger
- The Future of Knowledge Workers: The Forces of Asia, Automation, and Abundance
- A Lot More About Copyright Law Than You Wanted to Know
- Upcoming column on reference checking
- External Succession Planning: Including the Relevant Steps
- Employers required by law to support our troops; note recent changes
- But Can On-Line Dating Systems Learn Anything From On-Line Recruitment Systems?
- Does YOUR Company Exercise Reasonable Care to Prevent and Promptly Correct Any Harassing Behavior?
- Illinois now bans sexual orientation discrimination; broader implications beyond the state?
- 10 Major Mistakes in Workplace Investigations
- Yet Another Class Certification Decision: This Time It’s Boeing
- Worried About Going "Over the Hill?" At Least You Aren’t Alone!!
- Excellent article on employee termination practices: read it if you ever fire employees!
- To reduce turnover, write a good job description?
- How to Invite A Union Into Your Facility : – )
- Great article on Wall Street sex discrimination cases includes food for thought for all employers
- How Applicants (and Hiring Managers?) Get Around Electronic Recruitment Tools
- Good employment stats reported
- Who’s running the store at your neighborhood Starbuck’s?
- Catching Resume Fraud: Some Recommended Tips
- Challenging conventional wisdom on arbitration of employment claims
- Professor asks student deep questions on his "laboring" blog; George offers shallow answer
- Yet another blogroll addition; highlighting listing of past and likely future NLRB flipflops
- Are YOU A Savvy Interviewee: Interviewing Skills Quizzes
- New additions to employment/HR blogroll; case on forced wearing of union insignia
- Martin Luther King day reflections
- Differential Socializing + Statistical Evidence + Major Difference on Main Factor=Discrimination
- Jobs with the Most Job Growth: NOT Attorneys!
- Making the Most of Your Employees: Peer-to-Peer Interviewing
- Making Smooth Transitions: Succession Management for Top Executives
- Court allows casino to apply makeup rule in face of sex discrimination challenge
- Eliyon: What the Future Looks Like
- Different view of impact of Oracle-PeopleSoft merger
- HR heading into a freeze period????
- George starts monthly column on Hiring Center ; starts with Tips for Avoiding Legal Trouble with Employees
- Recruitment and Talent Management: Predictions for 2005
- New Headaches for 2005? Corporate Codes of Conduct and Legal Liability
- Following up Michael’s recent age discrimination and bullying posts: a few clips from George’s archives
- Getting off to good start in 2005: Review your employee handbook
- Corporate Counsel magazine’s overview of hot employment law issues for ’05
- Bullying: The Next Area of Legislation?
- Greatest hits of ’04
- You’re Too Young: New Changes in Child Labor Laws
- Interviewers cautioned about possible trade secret disclosure by interviewees
- Department store’s secrets not useful to Victoria’s Secret, these businesses not in "material competition," ergo noncompete unenforceable
- Starting 2005 The Right Way With EEOC
- Feel guilty about layoffs? — perhaps you should, some suggest
- Generational role reversal: managers young enough to be their subordinates’ kids
- Use of GPS to monitor employees, and hi-tech farming; possible opportunities for displaced IT workers
- Final backlog roundup of 2004: downsizing, benefits and retirement, blogs and blogging
- HR as good capitalists: capturing HR in Annual Report
- Still got the holiday spirit? Read about the Santa Claus unionization drive way up north in Canada
- Firing bloggers part IV — more bad examples
- ABC News names bloggers "People of the Year"
- Don’t Get Excited, Don’t Lose Your Head: Why Testifying Experts Should NOT Worry About Daubert
- Those Aging Baby Boomers: Age of Opportunity Or Time to Sue?
- Firing bloggers part III — avoiding unnecessary conflicts
- A brief word on my upgraded tech toolbag
- Around the Employment/HR Blogosphere
- Personality testing part II — George is guinea pig for various online tests
- "Passive" Job Candidates: Recruiting Candidates Who Aren’t Even On the Job Market
- TV Writers Make the News: Age Discrimination Lawsuit
- This Blawg wins coveted award!
- Is the Bottle Half Full or Half Empty? Summary of Coca-Cola’s Annual HR Task Force Report
- "HR Socialism" rebuttal
- Successful defense of age claim despite "ageist" remarks highlights important lessons
- Bloggers almost get TIME Person of the Year
- Is HR dominated by a bunch of pinkos who don’t care about the green stuff?
- New years haiku from — and inspired by — lawyer-blogger
- Who said this: labor or management?
- Lawyers’ favorite perks show nontraditional benefits help retain employees
- Tums management avoids heartburn from employee turnover
- Who you gonna believe? a/k/a "he said/she said"
- Nice Update On Employee Investigations
- Firing bloggers, Part II – challenges and opportunities of employee-bloggers
- The New Overtime Pay Regs: What Are Employees Asking?
- Resume Lies: Some Numbers………
- The New Overtime Pay Laws: Test Your Knowledge of Part-timers and Suspensions!
- Know thy Self, Know thy Enemy: Articles From the Plaintiff Lawyers’ Perspective
- Tis’ the Season (To Think About the Law)
- There are limits to "Have it Your Way" at Burger King; $400,000 paid to settle teen sexual harassment case
- Giving A Christmas Time Bonus to Your Employees? It May Cost More than You Think (If they are non-exempt workers!)
- Not For Small Businesses Only: Five Key Steps to Protect Against Employment Litigation
- Two other attorneys’ lessons from the Bill O’Reilly harassment case
- Sponsoring A Company Winter Holiday Party? Better Contact Your Attorney First!
- Personality testing part I — Michael rethinks use of personality tests for hiring
- What Happens to the Messenger With the Bad News? Telling People They Are Being Terminated and Surviving the Ordeal
- That "Difficult To Get Along With" Employee Might Just Be Protected Under ADA
- Job Interview Advice: Handling Embarrassing & Tough Interview Questions
- Standardize, Standardize, Standardize: And Don’t Give "Special Instructions"
- And Don’t Forget to Train the Trainer: Reducing Liability in Corporate Harassment Training Programs
- Love and Romance: Forget those online dating services and just go to work!
- On the Importance of Being a Good Host (Interviewer): Some Tips for Leaving a Good Impression on Job Candidates
- Firing bloggers to protect company image: Part I — the stories
- Testing 1, 2, 3 — Is She Crazy or Not? ADA and Personality Tests
- Quit Peeking At Me: A Nice Summary of Privacy Issues in the Workplace
- Review of the Proposed OFCCP Standards for Assessing Systematic Compensation Discrimination
- Economist magazine’s essay contest: “Import workers or export jobs?” George gives it a nice try, but takes no prize.
- Handling An Employee with A Disability: A Textbook Case On How to Do It RIGHT!
- Update: OFCCP and Compensation Discrimination: Changes in the Air
- A comment on comments (re Abercrombie)
- Can Abercrombie’s new Office of Diversity learn valuable lessons from Denny’s?
- UPDATED Details of the Abercrombie & Fitch Settlement: Wondering How Much Class Counsel Was Awarded?
- How Do Your Company’s Harassment Policies and Programs Compare?
- Workplace Drug Testing Trends
- Two thumbs up for book on harassment prevention training
- Getting out the crystal ball to look at the possible impact of 4 more years of Bush on labor and employment law
- Around the labor/employment/HR blogosphere
- How NOT to Do Performance Feedback: A Case Study
- Sun Rises In the East: Employment Law Keeps Attorneys Busy!
- Restaurants, Fast Food Stores, and Related Businesses: Check Out These Recent EEOC Guidelines for ADA Compliance
- Are You Covered by Federal Affirmative Action Requirements? Here is a Checklist to Make Sure
- Abercrombie’s case settled; Secret Service class claims are dismissed
- Abercrombie "image" discrimination case settles for big bucks; another class action victory for plaintiff’s attorneys
- When do employers, not employees, want jury trials?
- Health care roundup: still searching for answers
- Test Your Knowledge of EO 11246!
- Statistics, discrimination, and the presidential election
- Several more from my backlog, this time on a theme — the changing face of work: temping, starting your own business, freelancing, etc.
- Upcoming Webinar on EEOC and OFCCP Proposed Definition of Electronic Applicant
- Cleaning out the backlog: a motley hodgepodge of worthy links
- Case highlights need for care when using email as employee notification tool
- Addressing the dress code
- Age Discrimination and Disparate Impact: How Will the Supreme Court Weigh In?
- A Peek Behind the Scenes: Expert Witness Work in Employment Discrimination
- What She Said, What He Said: Choose Your Words Very Carefully
- O’Reilly harassment case: will it discourage excesses of harassment litigation as much as Thomas/ Hill hearings encouraged them?
- Discourse on summary judgment motions part III (partial summary judgment: snatching victory from the jaws of defeat)
- The Use of Electronic Technologies For Federal Government Hiring
- Record Retention: How Long Must One Maintain Personnel Files
- Does Your Company Have an Email and IM Policy: Follow Up
- The Secret World of Marsh Mac and the Use of Psychiatrists: Setting the Record Straight
- About To Do A RIF (Reduction In Force): You Might Want to Look At This Paper!
- Does Your Company Have an E-Mail and IM Policy?
- Around the employment blogosphere (again)
- A New Approach to Employment Branding
- Alcoholism: Protected Under ADA or Not?
- We Love Blogs….But For Recruitment?!?!?!?
- Technology and HR: Not So Fast Or So Good After All!
- KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid (Your career website, that is)
- Author of new employment screening blog writes on workplace violence; St. Louis employee engages in same
- Wondering Whether Good HRM Practices Are Important or Not? They May Be More Important Than Good Customer Service!
- EEOC Releases Fact Sheet on Intellectual Disabilities
- I Call It the Actual Situation Interview: Have You Tried It Yet?
- What’s Really Wrong With America: How the Federal Government Hires Its Workers
- Why Employee Referrals May Not Work (And What To Do About Them!)
- Absenteeism problems not enough to worry about? Start worrying about "presenteeism" too
- New blawg feature enhances communication
- So How Do Those Big Companies Really Recruit?
- Race discrimination RIF 1.8 million dollar verdict reported; google ads send readers right to plaintiff’s lawyers
- Job Descriptions 101: With A Strong Emphasis on Meeting ADA Requirements!
- Can I Ask That Question? An Interview Question Quiz
- Changes in FCRA Law: Employers Take Note
- Did I say to beware of company social events?
- High-visibility tattoos and piercings regretted by maturing employees
- Response to incentive compensation downside post from safety experts at Lynch Ryan
- Court rejects claim that harassment directed at both men and women was not unlawful; Also showing: Another Christmas party drunken grope
- Incentive-based compensation can have legal downside
- One More Time: How Do Voters Really Decide Whom To Vote For?
- On-Line Networking: Look Before You Link
- Around the HR/employment law blogosphere this week
- Cameraphones pose workplace security threat, create other problems
- Search Firms Beware: EEOC Suit Targets Search Firm
- So How Do You Design a Fair Compensation System?
- Labor law quiz and exam time
- Trump says "You’re Fired"; USA Today says "not so fast"
- Adding another employment-related blog to the blogroll
- Survey on HR technology use discusses key trends, including self-service HR
- Another Quiz: Test your FMLA Knowledge
- What’s A Competency?
- IT Job Market: Up, Down, Or Just Around?
- Real Estate Agent Simulation: Try It For Free!
- Court tightens FMLA screws on employers
- Should You Write Notes on An Application Form?
- Goodbye to Paper-and-Pencil Surveys!
- Preparedness for natural disaster saves employee lives
- On bloggers’ importance — we are the new media, and we are keeping check on the traditional media
- New Wal-Mart case highlights risks in use of credit reports to screen applicants
- One More Time: Wal-Mart Sued Again in Class Action Suit
- Montana Supreme Court rejects male-on-male harassment claim (open season on effeminate men in the wild wild west?)
- Political debate at work; is this really a problem?
- Concerned about health care cost and availability? (Who isn’t?) Outstanding teleseminar opportunity for you
- Update to previous posting on company job websites
- A Useful HR website — especially for public sector
- How Do Applicants Feel About Your Company’s Website?
- EEOC Launches New Website
- Blogs and Webcasts: The Latest Marketing Tools
- Good Employment Law Website With Lots of Good Information
- Now you can test your IQ — and see how you compare to the Brits!
- I’m back now: Is YOUR job? More on outsourcing…
- Where do you stand on the Big 5? Take this FREE personality test!
- Chicago meat maker sliced by EEOC
- Talent Management: Just Another Buzzword Or Something Meaningful?
- Woman Bites Dog Story: Male and Female Motivators Differ
- Word-of-mouth referrals are indeed legally problematic, at least if exclusive source for recruiting or promotions
- Statistics in the Courtroom: Morgan v. UPS Appeal Denied
- Thought that Heavy Reliance on Employee Referrals Was Legally Safe? Think Again!
- Throw Away Those Paper Training Evaluations Forever!
- What kind of conduct can lead to a big punitive award?
- I’m calling about a reference for a prospective employee….
- George’s Labor Day special
- Health benefits update: politicians’ plans critiqued in view of the big picture; hopeful signs of costcutting innovations emerging
- Hi-tech burger joints and low-paid burger flippers? Good news or bad for quantity and quality of new jobs?
- As election nears, do you know if your employees have a right to time off to vote?
- August jobs data released: half empty or half full?
- Selecting and Training on Cross-Cultural Skills: Or, Meet Me In Arizona
- Damned if you do; damned if you don’t: Why employees don’t want to become eligible for overtime pay
- So, you think you know all about harassment? Take this quiz and find out!
- Can harassment training do more harm than good? Not if you read this.
- A New Poll on Overtime Pay Changes!
- If You Conduct Harassment Training, You Must See This Video
- Still bewildered about overtime changes? We have (sources for) answers.
- Forced ranking falls from favor as it foments litigation
- This Will Really Annoy Some of Our Readers: Web Sites For Class Action Lawsuits
- What Does A Correlation of -.30 Look Like: Statistical Tools on the Internet
- Salary Surveys: How Do (You or) Your Employees Check Their Salaries?
- Nifty new search feature added: Thanks, Blogger!
- Worried About Losing Your Overtime Pay: Here’s A Quiz to Check!
- In-depth public radio treatment of overtime changes
- If You Do Business Presentations, You Must Buy This Book
- Interviewing 101: The Basics
- Michael is a TV personality and prolific author!
- Sticks and stones … but names CAN hurt you: Names, Resumes, and Racism
- Wal-Mart and Costco: both are now retail class action defendants, but they are reported to have very different approaches to HR
- Today’s the day: new overtime regs take effect
- Liar, Liar, Pants Are On Fire! Lying on Resumes
- Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics: A New Report on Sex Discrimination in the Workplace
- Do Interviews Work? If Not, What is the Alternative?
- And Now: Costco Is Sued for Sex Discrimination
- Preparing for the New FLSA Overtime Regs: Try a Video
- Harassment Training Tools: Web-based Approaches
- Race, Not Gender, Differences in Perceptions of Pay Fairness
- Dukes V. Wal-Mart: Analyzing Round Two
- I’m a "Grammar God" — and other personal notes
- You Heard It First Here: Ruling on the Appeal to Review the Wal-Mart Decision
- Back from New Orleans: Let’s Talk About Cross-Cultural Skills!
- Bad job market news from several indicators, but unemployment down
- More on exit interviews
- Offshoring/outsourcing roundup
- More action on class actions: Merrill Lynch and Siemens Medical Solutions — raising some arbitration and contract drafting issues
- Eighth Circuit harassment opinion follows spirit, not letter, of Supreme Court cases on affirmative defense
- Another major multi-employer strike in St. Louis: auto dealers
- Update on Defining An Internet Applicant
- Increased use of testing in hiring; other interesting hiring links
- Electronic Technology and Compensation: It’s Not Just For Recruitment and Selection Decisions
- Employment Discrimination and Statistics: Census Data and its Use: Part 1
- Disparate impact law, Part I – where it all began
- The Class Maledictorian Hypo
- Woman-on-man sexual harassment judgment raises a few interesting points
- Implications of the 4/5’s (80%) rule: Check the speedometer while you drive, not after the police officer stops you!
- Employment Discrimination and Statistics: The Art Versus the Science
- Coming soon: is requiring laborers to have high school diplomas race discrimination? (George’s upcoming posts on statistics & disparate impact)
- Truck drivers get a break from DC court
- EEOC releases "fact sheet" on ADA and epilepsy
- Employment Discrimination and Statistics: The 4/5′s Rule
- Massive health care reform roundup; fitting current efforts into coalition report framework
- Upcoming topics for the mini-series on employment discrimination and statistics
- Labor law issues for employers when union is nowhere to be seen?
- Google’s hit the corporate big time — and I’m not referring to the IPO
- Employment Discrimination and Statistics: What Does Statistical Significance Mean?
- This case is huge: record harassment verdict thrown out by Michigan Supreme Court
- Employment Discrimination and Statistics: Not Just for Attorneys
- New Series to Begin Today
- Employment Discrimination, Statistics, and Disparate Impact: Introduction To An Ongoing Series
- Health care proposal
- Domestic partner benefits: an issue whose time has arrived (like it or not)
- Couple of political asides from my lunchtime op-ed reading
- New feature: polls
- Internet Recruitment: Some New Approaches
- Speaking of the NLRB
- (Dare I say) this is an example of smart union tactics; but card-check recognition — not over my (client’s) dead body!
- Outsourcing HRM–what will it mean?
- Upcoming series on disparate impact and statistics
- Arizona Supreme Court limits employment arbitration
- Discourse on summary judgment motions Part II (having the last word: the reply brief)
- My Yahoo provides bloggers and blog readers with new option
- Defining "Applicant" In the Cyberworld: The EEOC and OFCCP Perspectives
- Blogroll update — new St. Louis category and a couple more employment/HR blawgs
- I’ve said it before — mandatory arbitration of employment claims is no panacea
- Racial harassment and fatal workplace violence generate novel employment discrimination claim
- Opening up this Blawg’s garage door for a peek at the clutter
- Wal-Mart class action: So, what did the judge say in his opinion and what are some lessons for employers?
- More on exit interviews, other termination nuts and bolts suggestions
- Positive perspective on ADA
- Some educational opportunities — are you up to speed in these EEOC, ADA, and labor law areas?
- New Demo ticket eschews class warfare, adopts more inclusive divisive language
- Exit interviews
- Labor photography: peruse the images from a great collection
- When it rains it pours; St. Louis named "Blawg City USA"
- Racial harassment claim rejected despite racial slurs, Klan graffiti
- Some advice on medical leave requests
- Change in blawg format (hopefully for the better)
- NLRB reveals latest in series of meandering and shifting rulings on right of nonunion employees to representation in disciplinary interview
- I’m away but I haven’t disappeared…..
- Kerry may be unable to attend nominating convention (due to his professed union loyalty)
- A healthcare anecdote
- Massachusetts Supreme Court rejects "compelled self-publication" defamation claim
- Good basic article on religious accomodation — a growing concern
- Potentially successful new union strategy, or more hot air?
- A political aside
- Comprehensive new blawg looks very promising
- This week’s new unemployment claims up
- Big disability discrimination verdict reported
- Fellow blogger comments on George’s snide remarks about Wal-Mart class action
- Welcoming a new contributor to this blawg
- Wal-Mart case gets certified as a class
- Transsexual protected under Title VII
- Taking off for a few days
- This week’s jobless claims report is good news
- Journalists belittle bloggers; bloggers’ fans respond
- Some features of this blawg explained
- Return-to-work myths debunked
- Sampling of today’s reporting on yesterday’s Supreme Court harassment decision; some further thoughts on this decision
- Uncensored Version of National Labor Relations Board "10(j) Manual"
- Update on DNC union snafu in Boston
- Supreme Court decides sexual harassment constructive discharge case
- Thanks for the mention; how readers can thank me
- Reagan remembered, Part I: myth and reality
- Reagan remembered, Part II: impact on the courts
- Reagan remembered, Part III: impact on labor relations
- New unemployment claims report shows increase last week
- Will improved job market lead to undesired increase in turnover?
- Various sexual harassment items
- Value of HR technology
- Will the Democratic party still respect Big Labor the morning after Labor screws up the convention?
- A coup for bloggers: Iraqi blog quoted by Wolfowitz
- Preventing employee embezzlement
- Help for employers dealing with FMLA abuse
- Employment outlook update from various angles
- California grocery strike fallout; grocery executive’s sick excessive compensation
- Hacking, social engineering, and HR
- Several news items focus on particularly hot employment growth areas
- In-house lawyers fret over employment matters, as they should
- Ice cream store managers lose overtime suit
- HIV discrimination costly to employer; safety concern about circus performer doesn’t fly (nor does he)
- Age discrimination: employment of older workers increases, so does risk of claims
- Very nice news on manufacturing jobs
- Work/Family inflexibility leads moms to drop out from work force; some find happiness and success with ebay
- Justice delayed 10 years (and counting)
- Caution: massive collection of health care benefit crisis articles ahead
- Off-topic post — (relatively) good news from Iraq
- Exchanging pats on the back with fellow blogger; wise words on workers comp
- Seventh Circuit case illustrates several useful defenses to discrimination claims
- Rethinking attitudes and policies towards workplace romance
- Weekly jobless claims report looks good after slight bump last week
- I missed my (blawg) anniversary
- The United Methodist Church: leading a new (old) benefits trend?
- SBC strike settled, pending ratification
- Sometimes you ought to stop and think: "how would this look in the local paper?"
- Another overtime update
- Estimate your company’s turnover and absenteeism costs
- Latest jobs stats
- SBC-CWA strike is on
- Adapting to the new Blogger
- Much ado about the EEOC’s new policy on retiree medical benefits
- Preventing high productivity from being self-defeating
- Thinking creatively about employee benefits
- Trying out a new look, thanks to Blogger updates
- Trend towards conniving & dishonesty in termination noted; not a bright idea
- Court finds job reassignment is adverse action for purposes of race and retaliation claims
- Good jobs data news on measure I’d not heard of: "JOLTS"
- Small business jammed up on health insurance even worse than big business
- The long and short of the "lawsuit lottery" in sexual harassment cases
- Unions struggle for relevance; "look for the union label"
- More high prices ahead for healthcare benefits; some more innovative options for responding
- The real "Friends" story
- Useful summary of 2003 state labor legislation
- Great payroll jobs report for April just out
- Weekly jobless claims continue to drop
- More on overtime reform
- Challenges and benefits of managing a virtual business using home-based independent contractors
- Discourse on summary judgment motions, spilling out after I spent most of the week preparing four of them
- Thursday’s good job stats release already out
- Stereotyping about ability of mothers to balance work and home is gender discrimination
- Retaliation claim lost by plaintiff due to failure to include it in EEOC charge; highly offensive racial remark kept out at trial
- Time for another overanalyzed report on new unemployment claims; more thoughts on the meaning of the numbers
- Serious side(s) of blogging attracts media attention
- Government releases useful employee benefit data
- Comparing healthcare apples and oranges
- Big news day for overtime pay reform issue
- Many employment cases do not bring big bucks, despite publicity given the million-dollar ones
- Sex show goes on despite union challenge
- Interesting views on jobs statistics
- This week’s new unemployment claims numbers not so great; overall level still good
- Some recent items on factors affecting healthcare benefit costs
- Various union items from past week
- Donuts, union organizing, and joint employment — what’s the connection?
- Runaway Jury
- Tyson Foods featured in several recent employment-related stories
- Case shows difficulty of establishing pay discrimination, retaliation, constructive discharge
- Employer regrets failure to include provision for misconduct-based termination in executive’s employment agreement
- Missouri noncompete decision highlights significant procedural point
- Interesting study on role of women in union organizing
- New York Times expose on altering of time records
- Sexual harassment editorial misses the mark
- Indian outsourcing not all it’s cracked up to be?
- Another strike over health care cost sharing and outsourcing in California, elsewhere?
- Whistleblower case results in large verdict
- Costs of employee mental health issues: obvious and hidden
- Losing after going all the way to the Supreme Court and winning there; what a bummer for Raytheon
- Health care cost control and HSA updates
- Article on Federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act
- It’s Thursday again — time for another good unemployment claims report
- In racial harassment case, court rejects criticism of employer’s response and finds no merit in constructive discharge claim
- ‘Wal-Martization’ of America, for better or worse; and rambling, fascinating discussion of its impact on grocery biz
- Employer’s nondisciplinary response to harassment allegation provides successful defense
- WARN notice "unforeseeable circumstance" contention involved issue of fact
- Volunteers in California must be paid prevailing wage ?!
- Missouri court rejects implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing and other common law claims by terminated insurance agent
- Two sexual harassment studies reported
- Nothing but good news on jobs (except a bump in unemployment); taking the data with a grain of salt
- I called this one right (the D.C UFCW grocery negotiations)
- More discrimination litigation against high-profile corporate deep pocket defendants — this time Boeing and Lowes
- Two contrasting views on gay/lesbian employment
- Novel union approach to competitiveness from Canada’s Prince Edward Island
- Social security troubles exaggerated?
- Labor law basics — duty to bargain over changes to practices not in the contract
- Several items on our changing economy and global competitiveness
- Plaintiff fails to establish a basic element of a retaliation claim: adverse employment action
- Xerox class action certified
- Various harassment items
- Very confusing case on vacation pay upon termination
- Continued good numbers on new jobless claims
- Big labor peaceful in March
- Supreme Court to decide age discrimination disparate impact issue
- D.C. area grocery negotiation update
- Weirton Steel contract ratified
- Supreme Court oral argument next week on sexual-harassment constructive discharge — important issue or much ado about nothing?
- Informative and practical review of FMLA issues
- Age remarks not sufficient evidence of bias
- One more Pledge article really worth reading
- Off-topic personal view — on pledging allegiance to "one nation under God"
- Maybe doctors can do this, but it’s risky for employers
- Less-publicized good jobs news — planned hiring up
- AFL-CIO challenge to Chinese working conditions: interesting new move on labor globalization
- MTV learns about construction unions in "the Real World"
- Health insurers’ profits rise massively, as employers and consumers get priced out of the market
- Employer barely avoids getting stuck with voluntary union recognition
- Health care debate continues
- Firing of woman for sexual harassment of men not race discrimination
- Exhibit A on how the federal bench has its act together
- Jobless Claims Drop; Wholesale Prices Rise (washingtonpost.com)
- Are these two justice system stories in any way related?
- Bracing for more UFCW/grocery chain labor unrest?
- BusinessWeek Online features slew of stories on jobless recovery, outsourcing, etc.
- EEOC releases annual stats
- Older employees (retiring Boomers) will be needed in face of upcoming labor (not jobs) shortage, says Harvard Business Review
- Working the electronic grapevine
- LLCs boom in Tennessee; what does this portend about the economy and the meaning of employment statistics?
- FedEx Driver Wins $3.24M in sex discrimination and harassment case
- Lou Dobbs on outsourcing/offshoring
- Off-topic, but interesting: Atlantic interview with John Kerry biographer
- Various items on organized labor and politics
- More post-mortem on SoCal grocery strike
- More on 360 Degree Feedback
- Is pressure to finally start hiring building up in the executive suite and among investors?
- Bunch more stuff on outsourcing/offshoring
- Learned professor comments on Supreme Court’s general Dynamics age discrimination decision
- Inappropriate, imature and unprofessional conduct held not sexual harassment
- What’s going on with the employment data?
- No protection against retaliatory discharge for malicious bad faith filing of unfounded harassment charge
- Watching what you do and don’t say in response to reference checks
- Biting critique of union’s handling of socal grocery strike
- Encouraging hard numbers from consumer-driven health plans
- Good basic piece on RSS and Atom syndication
- More slight improvement in jobless claims
- Illinois Supreme Court narrowly construes state employee personnel code whistleblower retaliation provision as not creating private right of action
- Health care trio
- Other views on offshoring
- Job cuts drop in February
- Supreme Court pension ruling helps small business owners
- Successor corporation liability for employment discrimination
- Solid endorsement of one of my favorite technologies — voice-recognition (Dragon NaturallySpeaking)
- Big labor promotes questionable "reform" of card-check recognition
- Dick Clark accused of age discrimination against long-time colleague; smoking gun letter?
- Grocery contract ratified; various articles touch on details, perspectives of parties
- Photojournalist documents hazardous work in America
- Jobs, policy and politics
- Some experts agreeing with my assessment of the General Dynamics age case
- Off-topic post on gay marriage
- Thomas Friedman on outsourcing/offshoring to India
- Grocery strike appears over, finally
- I’ve been prepping for an exciting seminar on electronic evidence
- Some tips on performance reviews
- "Pee-phobia" (paruresis) and drug testing
- Jobless claims up slightly, but there is some good news too
- Racism alive and well in Missouri
- Statement to EEOC admissible on plaintiff’s credibility
- Supreme Court age discrimination decision: right result, wrong reasoning
- Judge expects attorneys to write well if they want top dollar
- Grocery strike news
- Latest jobless claims report
- Blogging solo writes about blogs
- Politicians and jobs
- Why careful drafting is important, if costly
- List of state laws on use of arrest and conviction records
- The push for retraining, including for automated manufacturing jobs; example of one such job
- Sex magazine, the First Amendment, and sexual harassment at Harvard
- Modified duty for workers suffering compensable injuries
- Where the jobs are going; what jobs will be left; and what it all means for America
- Fired for hitting, Mr. Hitt got fired up about age discrimination, filed a charge and sued, but was KO’d after 3 rounds
- Workers Comp Insider weblog comments on my English-only post; writes good post on treatment of back pain
- Immigration bill and English language
- English-only policies and the melting pot (not)
- More procedural wrangling over arbitration of discrimination claims
- Mobile (laptop) blogging this weekend
- Interesting software for administering employee leave.
- Jobs stats billed as bad news because below "expectations"
- Time is money; money is time
- Building web connections; kind mention from blog worth checking out
- Bad job news from Challenger report on announced layoffs
- Perspectives on immigration reform
- Workplace violence follows termination of employment
- Junk social science testimony going to ultimate issue of retaliatory motive inadmissible
- Poor drafting of noncompete agreement, weak pursuit of trade secret claim leave employer vulnerable to competition
- Keep coming back; more content promised
- Connecticut Supreme Court rejects cause of action for "compelled self-publication defamation"
- California grocery strike updates
- Researchers note: nice summaries of state employment laws
- Watch out for overly-accommodating and patronizing management behavior
- More good reading on the healthcare benefits crisis
- Kind mention of this blawg
- Levi’s claims vindication in dismissal of lawsuit after holding out while others settled for millions
- No compensatory & punitive damages or jury trial for retaliation under ADA, 7th Circuit holds
- Crabbed ADA interpretation of the year (month?)
- Martin Luther King Day
- Survey results: biggest HR legal or regulatory obstacle?
- Iowa Supreme Court upholds grooming policy prohibiting male earrings
- Harassment case discusses definition of supervisor, need for evidence harassment was based on gender
- Fascinating opinion on discrimination liability based on bias of subordinate employee who provides information affecting decision
- Strikes drag on; no end in sight
- A smorgasbord of healthcare links (continued)
- Missions to moon & mars: what does this have to do with employment?
- A smorgasbord of healthcare links
- Industry reaction to bad press over "offshoring" of IT work
- 360-degree performance reviews
- Discussion of consumer-driven health plans
- Economics professor comments on jobless recovery, globalization
- Wal-Mart CEO on health care, exporting of jobs, legal system
- Employee ownership: story from North Carolina; statistics from survey
- Grocery clerks’ real nightmare
- Washington Post educates public on employment at will; good drafting saves the day for employer
- Unions supporting free international trade?
- More on the Peterson v. HP anti-gay religious discrimination case
- Blawg reader survey
- Jobs report: press and dems seize on the negative
- Christian rights vs. gay rights in the Ninth Circuit: guess who wins?
- Aggressive employee wellness program pays off for Missouri city
- Looking at the bright side of employee complaints
- Reverse discrimination settlement (in demotion case!) consumes half of employer’s annual budget
- Employment plays key role in Bush immigration reform plan
- Blogging gets attention
- Employers bear costs of employee depression
- "Names can never hurt me" (but they can get me a big settlement if I’m a schoolkid in California teased about homosexuality)
- Coffee drinkers take comfort: it’s actually good for you
- Annual Fortune magazine "Best Companies to Work For" list is out
- More good jobs news: decline in announced job cuts
- Harassment claim a setup? Claimant caught in consensual relationship with alleged harasser after settling claim returns settlement money
- Tough to prove duress invalidating release of right to sue for discrimination
- More on healthcare issues
- Termination during FMLA leave based on superior performance of replacement did not violate FMLA
- "Blawgspace is a generous place"
- Dept. of Labor launches new interactive tool for employers
- Interesting new-old health-care approach
- Great article on employee views of prescription drug costs and need to educate employees as part of cost controls
- Strongly positive projections for employment in new year — end of the "jobless recovery"?
- Flexible retirement savings options atractive to and used by younger workers?
- New health savings accounts — government issues guidance, sparking interest and discussion
- Weird college campus affirmative-action story
- Mixed outlook on pension funding
- Reasonable dress code — 3 earrings per lobe max?
- Help-wanted ads show positive employment trend
- Paternity leave on the rise?
- Transitional duty helps control workers comp costs
- Last week’s news on jobless claims
- Temp firms consolidating through mergers
- Comments on flexible spending debit cards
- Back to work (and to blawg)
- Debit cards for employee-directed benefit spending
- Latest on Calif. grocery strike — talks collapse
- Survey on internet use at work
- Interesting studies on gender pay equity issues
- Big healthcare mystery: what do particular procedures really cost?
- Medicare precription coverage law also includes exciting new health savings account for more consumer-driven healthcare options
- Lawyers complain about too many cases being settled
- Latest jobs, economic data good
- Business Week is bullish on the job market
- law.com – Article
- EEOC announces recruiting and hiring settlement
- Good analysis of causes of healthcare cost increases
- News on jobs statistics in tech sector
- Laid-off execs increasingly become own bosses
- Interesting blog comments on Abercrombie & Fitch "appearance discrimination"
- Good story on offshoring
- Interesting disconnect on jobs outlook
- California UFCW starts to crumble as grocery strike drags on
- More IT jobs headed overseas
- Casinos, sex discrimination, makeup, and corporate dress codes
- Good commentary on tort reform, inspired by recent Newsweek article
- Yahoo! News – More Firms to Add Staff; Cuts Planned Too
- Tough luck on diversity jurisdiction
- Termination under last-chance agreement’s prohibition of off-duty alcohol use not ADA violation
- Slight increase in jobless claims shows job growth still lagging other economic indicators
- Kroger settles West Virginia strike
- Trampling at Wal-Mart and frequent filer syndrome
- High-rolling big-firm partners drew big bucks to the end
- Postal Service disability discrimination settlement
- Grocery strike update
- Different perspective on outsourcing: "insourcing"
- Uncorroborated plaintiff’s affidavit sufficient to create pretext fact question precluding summary judgment
- Strikers denied unemployment
- Misleading headline on healthcare costs?
- Overview of labor market trends: the big picture
- Online auction for scheduling employee shifts and setting pay?
- Court rules NLRB properly attributed pre-election threats to employer, requiring election rerun; prohibiting union use of bulletin board not unlawful
- California UFCW strikers head into Christmas voluntarily jobless
- Survey on employer health care costs and trends
- More mixed news on jobs, economy; impact of grocery strike on statistics
- Good article on preventing discrimination claims
- Two corporations treated as one for overtime purposes: "enterprise" and "joint employer" standards applied applied
- Interesting take on offshoring IT jobs
- Correction and apology
- Value of HR certifications discussed
- Age discrimination RIF case raises waiver, forced-ranking performance evaluation issues
- Booming productivity: a reflection of overworking existing employees instead of hiring more?
- Slight uptick in jobless claims
- CEO’s rapidly joining the ranks of unemployed
- More on offshore outsourcing of IT jobs
- More on EEOC study of its Mediation Program
- More on Raytheon Supreme Court disability opinion
- The virtues of writing well
- Move to repeal California mandatory health care law
- $500,000 sexual harassment settlement
- More political correctness run amuck
- Updated archives by category; other holiday handiwork added; an aside about food
- Discrimination in RIF not proven despite early retirement offer, discriminatory remarks, and disregard of performance evaluations
- More on the Supreme Court’s Raytheon decision
- Illinois "judicial hellhole"
- Major paper reports on increased mediation of employment cases
- Supreme Court rules in Raytheon case, upholding no-rehire policy against ADA challenge
- Some tips on holiday workplace parties
- California harassment ruling latest example of unhealthy divergence between state and federal discrimination law
- Latest good news on economy
- More political correctness run amuk
- Happy Thanksgiving
- Creative suggestions for rewarding and motivating employees without spending a lot
- Backlash against offshore IT outsourcing begins?
- Termination for signing pro-abortion-rights ad challenged as gender and pregnancy discrimination
- Livermore Labs sex discrimination class action settlement
- Overtime reform roadblock apparently overcome
- Blogger’s tips for blogging and reading blogs at work
- Great end-of-week news on jobs and economy
- Electronic evidence destruction case
- Wal-Mart & unions; Wal-Mart & suppliers
- Abercrombie discrimination allegations in news again
- Execs more upbeat about economy than hiring plans
- Spirituality in the workplace
- Union corruption update
- Update on playing politics over overtime reform
- Transit strike over; healthcare still not resolved
- Update on California grocery strike, including violence
- Narrow reading of what it means to be "similarly situated" for purposes of showing disparate treatment
- A new look for this blawg
- Nice personal story of big firm lawyer hanging shingle as solo; discussion of benefits of small firm practice
- Flip side of the strengths of B-team players: surprising emotional vulnerabilities of A-team players
- Interesting approach to small business healthcare nightmare
- Union harassment in the era of political correctness
- Interesting perspective on St. Louis grocery strike by local employee-oriented lawyer
- More on healthcare crisis
- Another story on blogging in the workplace
- Supreme Court reverse age discrimination arguments reported
- Jobless claims rise; but numbers still looking much better
- Preview of arguments in reverse-discrimination age case at Supreme Court
- Majority of employees want different job
- More analysis of labor market statistics
- Developments in California strikes
- Disclosure of financial records during collective bargaining: the fine line between "can’t" and "won’t" or "don’t want to"
- More on McDonald’s
- Pain and employee productivity — interesting study
- More on Wal-Mart
- Long article on diversity in Christian Science Monitor
- Story on trend to self-employment — will it continue as employment picks up?
- Wal-Mart back in the headlines for suit by undocumented aliens
- Nonemployee union representatives may enter construction site despite opposition of property owner
- Interest arbitration in LA transit strike: a bad idea
- Burger flippers get no respect these days
- Good old fashioned union violence hits movie theaters — lucky nobody died
- All bank vice presidents are not created equal (equal pay case)
- More on those doctors who refuse to accept insurance payments
- A week later, St. Louis grocery strike outcome looks even better for employers, per local paper
- More good news on jobs: "it’s the economy, stupid" might start sounding pretty stupid soon!
- Thank you for recent kind words and links to this blawg
- Interesting medical cost-cutting trend
- For a chuckle: appropriate lawyer’s names
- Participate in poll on employer-provided benefits
- ABA article discusses age discrimination and performance evaluation "grade inflation"
- More good news on jobs, productivity; analysis of changing jobs picture
- OSHA Encourages defibrillator use in workplace
- Employee discipline tips
- Bad job news: job-cut announcements up significantly
- More on employer liability for severe sexual harassment where both employer and employee act correctly
- Workforce Management’s critique of striking grocery workers
- Workforce Management article on bad terminations has some practical tips
- Federal jurisdiction over out-of-state corporation based on maintenance of website
- Law professor seems to agree with the maligned Judge Brown about conflicts between free speech and harassment law
- Affirmative action plan does not justify reverse discrimination
- EEOC issues guidance on diabetes and the ADA
- My apologies to the grocery stores and my readers; day two of the St. Louis UFCW strike settlement
- Coming soon: George takes on the AFL-CIO website propaganda
- UFCW defeated in ill-timed California representation election
- Count your blessings as to economy
- St. Louis grocery strike ends with significant company concessions
- Good case on age discrimination defense using evidence of hiring of other older employees
- Chicago Teachers’ Strike?
- Good news on jobs, growth
- Groceries vs. UFCW strike updates
- Black conservative judges unfairly maligned
- Philadelphia mayor’s heavy-handed attack on Wal-Mart
- New Blawg feature
- A slew of pro-employee legislative developments in Illinois
- Chrysler/UAW pact adresses absenteeism, while CCH survey reports record low absenteeism
- HR role in excesses of executive compensation discussed in depth
- Jobless recovery victims adapt and survive
- Interesting whistleblower/1st amendment allegations
- Update on Wal-Mart immigration raids
- McDonald’s settles obesity employment case
- 360-degree performance reviews
- Eighth Circuit indicates its application of Desert Palace v. Costa; says 2 months too long for inference of retaliation
- Wal-Mart immigration headache
- Good employment stats again
- Cool Bureau of Labor Statistics tools
- Suggestion on avoiding high-tech snooping
- Tips on promotion decisions
- Case emphasizes discrimination charge relationship to lawsuit allegations; also key points for retaliation cases
- Fellow Blogger adds thoughtful and personal voice to my commentary on health insurance issues
- New York Times on health care crisis
- AFL-CIO position on Wal-Mart’s health insurance — blame the employer, not the system
- Unanswered questions of sexual harassment law
- Interesting–transcript of sniper trial self-representation motion discussion
- Critique of 401(k) plans
- Great analysis of health care–the big picture
- Unions litigate OSHA issue
- Employment application tips from HR Matters E-Tips
- Health insurance pools for small businesses: pros and cons
- Speaking of health care costs–a personal anecdote
- Employers tackle employee waistlines
- Strike updates
- Changing views towards older workers
- Disability claim fatal to age discrimination claim
- More good economic news portending jobs improvement
- Great minds think alike (re health care costs and strikes)
- Interesting tech story
- States address health insurance for small business with patchwork solutions
- ADHD not ADA-protected disability, First Circuit holds
- LA transit strike pits blue-collar elite against working poor
- Calif. UFCW grocery workers join St. Louis brethren in striking
- Chicago garbage strike settled
- Supreme court to hear recovered drug addict ADA issue
- Do Americans work too much?
- Good news in latest jobs stats
- ADA diabetes case finds protected disability based on substantial limitation of major life activity of eating
- What chutzpah: claiming workers’ comp for workplace suicide by workplace killer of three
- Whistleblower settlement announced by Coke
- St. Louis grocery strike update
- A feminist critique of the Family and Medical Leave Act
- On the ropes, Calif. Gov. Davis approves monumental health care bill
- This blawg mentioned in print
- Critique of new union dislcosure rules
- Chicago sanitation workers continue to strike; St. Louis grocery workers start strike
- EEOC sues Bechtel over alleged discrimination against Iraqi
- New union financial disclosure regs
- Where our tech jobs are going
- Another perspective on unemployment stats
- Bank One lawsuit over employee theft of confidential information by email
- September employment data a nice surprise, but perplexing
- Deeper look at job figures more optimistic
- Online lawyer referral service
- Death knell to overtime reform?
- From jobless recovery to employee shortage?
- Interesting commentary on search engines and paid-inclusion links
- "Freedom ride" or "free ride"?
- UFCW Union strident despite "buyer’s market" for labor
- Pair of upbeat articles on employment of the disabled
- Ruling on fiduciary duty in Enron case
- Jobless claims up
- New sex discrimination theory?
- What is success?
- Recovery still jobless
- Follow-up on epilepsy as disability
- Ford, Chrysler to cut more jobs
- Chicago Teamsters garbage haulers strike
- Overnite-Teamsters NLRB settlement reveals Teamsters’ ugly underbelly
- Neither controlled epilepsy nor perceived emotional instability is ADA disability
- Implications of new concealed carry law for Missouri employers
- Just can’t leave Wal-Mart alone
- Obesity and other aspects of employee health as an HR management and productivity issue
- "Trial Lawyers Inc." report on lawsuit industry by Manhatten Institute
- EEOC settles religious accomodation case on behalf of Islamic workers
- Welcome to my new readers
- Florida Supreme Court rejects invasion of privacy claim in sexual harassment context
- Alleged harasser bites back
- Predictions on the Wal-Mart case, anyone?
- Wal-Mart sex discrimination class action update
- Working Mother Top 100
- Study finds majority of Americans plan to work into 70s
- Librarian claims race, gender discrimination due to perception she was "pretty girl" who dressed "too sexy"
- Let’s hear it for the "B team" employees
- Immigration policy change — reduction of skilled-worker visas
- More overtime litigation; this time against Hertz for misclassifying managers as exempt
- Portion of workforce covered by employer-provided health coverage down
- Blogging by employees: a law journal tackles an issue of major concern to bloggers and their employers
- Advice about lawyers for small businesses
- Western Auto Supply settles employment "redlining" lawsuit
- More union corruption news: Machinists at Lockheed allegedly pocket over $150,000
- Hip-hopper sued for overtime
- Union, union lawyer corruption alleged in federal indictment
- UAW, GM reach agreement
- Big plug for blawgs
- Shortage of labor (not jobs) on horizon?
- Employment situation — worst since Great Depression — or least bad? Depends who you ask; how you count it
- Amtrak Unions Threaten to Walk Out
- Latest on UAW, GM
- Employer’s questionable reliance on criteria other than qualifications insufficient to prove discrimination
- GM holds out; UAW blinked on health costs with Chrysler
- Latest on UAW – Big Three talks
- Goodyear’s deal with the devil
- New efforts to raise minimum wage
- Jury returns defense verdict on 9/11/03 in Muslim-American’s discrimination suit
- Positive economic forecasts have job growth in the picture soon
- Unusual take on diversity and color
- EEOC wins over $4 million jury verdict in retaliation case
- Company liable for wilful age discrimination by employment lawyer-turned HR manager
- 1991 Civil Rights Act has hurt its intended beneficiaries
- Senate passes Democratic amendment halting proposed expansion of overtime exemptions
- Surprisingly narrow construction of “regarded as” ADA disability definition
- Veto threatened on overtime bill change
- Latest Wal-Mart labor story
- Good analysis of jobless recovery
- Older workers: survivors, not victims, in jobless recovery
- Using voice recognition software
- Permalinks added as I expand my blogging knowledge
- A.F.L.-C.I.O. begins group for workers not in unions
- Allstate age discrimination class action
- Missouri court enforces employee contract to repay training costs out of final pay if employee quits after less than four years
- Viewpoints on the "jobless recovery"
- Lessons from Chicago workplace murders?
- Solid economic good news–will jobs follow?
- Claim of failure to accommodate disability rejected due to inadequacy of employee’s efforts in “interactive process”
- Mini-rant: the blame-somebody-else-for-your-own-faults mentality
- Employee Hygiene Policy?
- Lack of discrimination protection for independent contractors bemoaned
- Another report on changing employer policies towards gay employees
- Pushing forward with its mediation program, EEOC announces national agreement with major employer to mediate employment disputes
- Sexual harassment claim rejected despite serious allegations
- This Blawg now available on Daily Whirl
- Baseball, beanballs and the law
- Baseball in St. Louis, "the best baseball town in the U.S."!
- More Pregnancy discrimination Q& A (based on HR Matters E-Tips Newsletter)
- Employee entitled to unemployment despite termination for violation of written safety rule, Missouri court rules
- EEOC Sues Caterpillar for racial and sexual harassment
- Maybe the jobless aspect of the "jobless recovery" is finally easing
- Affordable health insurance for small businesses?
- Should there be an assumption of the risk defense to sexually hostile work environment claims?
- Another agreement to arbitrate discrimination claims is struck down
- Egyptian Sues over ‘Mrs. Taliban’ Remark
- Latest on overtime bill in Congress
- EEOC announces $3.2 million settlement in race case
- Burger King settles case for $35,000 despite claimed defense it was victim of a lawsuit "set-up"
- Your government dollars hard at work: EEOC fights sex discrimination on behalf of highly paid elite law school grads
- Rare case – employer manages to overturn arbitration award under collective bargaining agreement
- 4th Cir. applies Desert Palace; holds mixed-motive instruction should have been given
- New feature added to this BLAWG — RSS newsfeed
- Not employment law, but interesting
- Pregnancy discrimination Q& A (based on HR Matters E-Tips Newsletter)
- A word about the style of this Blawg
- Applebee’s settlement: color discrimination emerges as new area to watch
- 8th Cir. racial harassment cases draw distinctions based on severity and pervasiveness of conduct
- Interesting 7th Cir. case affirming NLRB on right of nonunion employees to strike
- New features added to this Blawg
- Employer prevails in age case despite failure to give employee opportunity to explain incident prior to termination
- Economic news — mostly good, some bad
- Headlines added to my blawg
- In coworker harassment case, 4th Cir. discusses "because of sex"; constructive knowledge from failure to provide adequate complaint procedure
- Story on discrimination claims for hiring retail employees for good-looking appearance, inspired by Abercrombie case
- 8th Circuit case refines "regarded as" prong of ADA definition of disability
- 8th Circuit ADA decision validates employer reliance on Dept. of Transportation (DOT) driver qualification requirements
- Illinois Appellate Court upholds enforcement of noncompete against salesman; discusses standards for enforcement in sales context
- Ill. App. Ct. decision confirms right of at-will employer to change compensation unilaterally; rejects retaliatory discharge claim
- Overtime reform progresses in House
- Fourth Circuit case shows that proactive equal employment opportunity policies can help employers avoid punitive damages
- Seventh Circuit case reminds us to examine relationship between EEOC charge and issues raised in complaint in subsequent lawsuit
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- Commentary on Supreme Court’s mixed motives decisi…
- 1st Cir. opinion has wise, measured approach on tw…
- Back for a couple of days Webelos camp was gr…
- Happy Blawg-Anniversary to Me! Made it to the o…
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- More on electronic discovery An article by Jas…
- Illinois Appellate Court gives cramped constructio…
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- California court actually finds an arbitration cla…
- Ninth Circuit finds statements insufficient to est…
- New jobless claims down, but long-term unemploymen…
- Fifth Circuit discusses evidence of pretext in age…
- EEOC litigating many sexual harassment cases involving young workers at fast-food joints
- Illegal Sears Tower workers arrested in crackdown arising from security concerns
- Missouri Court of Appeals holds duty not to compet…
- Department of Homeland Security bulletin describes…
- Eighth Circuit discusses when promise to pay sever…
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- Jobless claims up, still well above 400,000 CNN…
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- Christian Science Monitor reports on cost to emplo…
- Latest Circuit City arbitration decision from Nint…
- Sixth Circuit upholds unfair labor practice findin…
- A couple of interesting pieces from American Lawye…
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