Archive: November 2022

Packaging Corporation of America has agreed to pay the EEOC $385,000 to settle the racial harassment claims of two African American employe...

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Thomas Ross, a security officer employed by Allied Universal in San Francisco, has filed a discrimination charge with the EEOC against Serv...

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A French employee, fired for refusing to participate in after-work drinks and other "team building" activities, has won the legal ...

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As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday, I thought I'd take a moment to say a few thank-yous, as I have a lot for which to be thankful....

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This is how it started. This is how it's ended (for now). In the intervening 48 hours, Elon Musk reportedly fired dozens of Twitter em...

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"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude , except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall e...

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In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision in  Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization   that ended federal constitutional pro...

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News broke last week of Elon Musk's lawyer reassuring  Twitter's remaining employees that they should not worry about potential crim...

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Call me a Twitter Armageddon Prepper . I'm not ready to abandon Twitter … yet. Even with Elon Musk in charge, I have 14 years and way to...

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Michael Muckenfuss worked in maintenance at a Tyson Fresh Meats facility. When the Covid-19 pandemic began, the town's mayor instituted ...

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Elon Musk did everything wrong with his employees upon his acquisition of Twitter, including laying off half of them via email. With the eco...

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Growing up, I loved Election Day. My elementary school was a polling place, which meant that I got the day off from school. My parents would...

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Over the weekend, I asked a simple question on LinkedIn : "Would you fire this employee?" The employee in question took to LinkedI...

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We need to talk about Kanye.  In the wake of his rampant and unapologetic antisemitism, people are hanging antisemitic banners on highway ov...

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There's retaliation … and then there's murder.  A federal court jury recently returned a unanimous guilty verdict against Juan Range...

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Wearable trackers. Security cameras. GPS trackers. Keyloggers. Live webcam monitoring. Technology has made it easier for employers to monito...

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Shortly after Elon Musk closed his $44 billion acquisition of Twitter, he cleaned out its C-suite. He fired CEO Parag Agrawal, CFO Ned Sega...

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