Archive: November 2017

Last night we went to dinner at our favorite local restaurant . Donovan ordered his favorite dish—gluten free penne alfredo. He is not a g...

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I started this journey all the way back on January 12, 2017, in a post discussing an employer who fired a man absent while attending his son...

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Today is Giving Tuesday , a global day of charitable giving, which symbolically kicks off the season for those who choose to focus their h...

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Miriam Valle worked as a ticket agent for Frank Martz Coach Company, until it fired her on January 27, 2016. Two weeks prior, she had adv...

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Today is your last day to vote in the preliminary round for the “Worst Employer of 2017.” Voting in the cut-down round has been robust, ...

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“Dad, can you take me to the craft store?” My 6th grader has a diorama due the day after Thanksgiving break. So, off Norah and I we...

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Jason Shann worked as the Enterprise Desktop Management Team Leader in the IT department of Atlantic Health System. He also suffered from t...

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A few weeks ago I listed my five favorite podcasts, and asked you for some suggestions to add to my listening queue. Had I waited a month...

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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about stress, and the anxiety it can, and often does, cause. Stress induced anxiety can cripple someone...

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Yesterday afternoon, I received the following email from a co-worker: To: Office All Subject: Pardon the office all email  I am sure yo...

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Do you enjoy webinars? Do you have an affinity for six of the internet’s top labor and employment law and HR bloggers coming together to p...

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www.pinterest.com/pin/202802789447314070 Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, Louis CK, Mark Halperin, Bill O’Reilly, Roger Ailes … the list ...

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What’s your happy place? Where do you take your mind when you’re just having a bad day, when you have to deal with that employee, whe...

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Photo by Taber Andrew Bain Licensed via Creative Commons  Earlier this month, American Airlines agreed to pay $9.8 million to settle a...

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There is a right way to quit a job, and a wrong way to quit a job. Last week, a Twitter employee demonstrated the worst of the latter.

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Have your heard about Juli Briskman, the biker that flipped the finger to Trump’s passing motorcade? https://twitter.com/julibriskman ...

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I received some great feedback  on LinkedIn on last week’s  post on New York’s new paid family leave law . That law grants paid leave for...

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I HATE being late. It’s my number one pet peeve. It drives my family completely nuts. If I’m even one minute late for anything, I am a me...

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My two working-parent family It is freakin’ hard to be a working parent in America. It is even more difficult when both mom and dad work...

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The day for which you’ve waited all year has finally arrived. It’s your opportunity to help pick the Worst Employer of 2017 .

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