Archive: October 2022

Are unions cool again? Were they ever cool?  On the most recent episode of Good Morning, HR , I sat down with host Mike Coffey to discuss ...

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All of my earliest sports memories involve the 1980 Phillies.  Mike Schmidt's towering home runs.  Steve Carlton's unhittable slider...

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It's a tale as old as time … or at least as old as employees have been working on computers. You start your work day by turning on your ...

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According to two recent   surveys : 76% of U.S. workers report at least one symptom of a mental health condition. 84% of those reporting men...

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On May 9, 2022, the baristas working at the Starbucks store located at 1123 NW 63rd St., Nichols Hills, OK 73116 voted 10-9 to unionize . It...

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You'd think I'd know better.  A payroll $182 million higher. 7 more regular season wins with run differential 176 points higher.  An...

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"I wouldn't think with your condition and—your medical condition and your age that you would want to teach." "I think you...

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"Is there money owed to you for claims against third parties, whether or not you have filed a lawsuit or made a demand for payment, suc...

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Last Friday I joined my good friend Eric Meyer  via Zoom on his weekly Employer Handbook Zoom Office Happy Hour. Our topic: whether the rec...

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One of the trends that has come through in the recent wave of unionization is the use by labor unions of corporate names and logos in their ...

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A "concept album" is an album that tells a story through a single instrumental, compositional, or lyrical narrative or theme. The ...

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"I didn't want to do illegal stuff. I've worked my entire life to build up a career of integrity, and I was not going to allow ...

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Who qualifies as an independent contractor? If the Biden administration's new proposed regulations take effect as drafted, the answer t...

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Why are employees quitting their jobs? StandOutCV (as reported by  TLNT ) wanted to know the answer, so it analyzed 2,698 recent social med...

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One of our primary roles as attorneys is to protect our clients from their worse instincts.  "Can I fire the employee who just filed an...

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Do you have a side hustle ? I now do, albeit an unpaid one. I just started my gig as a volunteer legal advisor for my daughter's high s...

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Suppose your employees walk off the job in protest of stalled negotiations over a new collective bargaining agreement. Further suppose that ...

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When a labor union is engaged in organizing your employees, you are allowed to present facts  to your employees to attempt to convince them ...

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October is Bullying Prevention Month. Over 90% of employees say that they have been bullied by a co-worker or manager. Yet, unless a bully i...

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You might know Joy Gendusa, the CEO of PostcardMania, from her April 2020 video  in which she called out employees who had reported her comp...

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