Election Day is in seven days. By all predictions, this election will see a record number of voters. As long as Election Day remains a worki...

This post at the Evil HR Lady Facebook group caught my attention yesterday: Florida company's president warns employees their jobs cou...

Today is Super Bowl Monday, the day after the big game. The game ended after 10 pm last night, and parties went much later. In light of thi...

I fully embrace the irony of a local news broadcast holding me  out as the expert on hair discrimination. 👨🏻‍🦲 Irony notwithstanding, h...

EEOC v. Nabors Corp. Services involves serious allegations of racial harassment, including the following. Being addressed at work by co...

An employee suffering from epilepsy, migraines, and heart condition asks (with a medical note) for two unpaid days off from work unpaid to t...

There are some employment policies that you can get away with not having. An anti-discrimination policy is not one of them. In Hubbell v...

It’s been just over 18 months since the NLRB decided Boeing Co. , perhaps its most significant decision in decades. It rewrote more than a...

In three days, my family grows by one. We’re adding a puppy. My wife and kids have been clamoring for a new dog for a year. Loula (our ...

The Wall Street Journal recently asked this simple question: What's the Best Way to Fire Someone? I have some thoughts.

Michael Woods, a mortgage banker at Quicken Loans, was having a bad day at work. A customer Woods had helped four years ago had been trying ...

Consider and compare the following workplace civility policies: Commitment to My Co-Workers I will accept responsibility for establishin...

43 percent of American employees work for companies with 50 or fewer employees. I raise this statistic because it is almost a guarantee that...

How frigid are the temperatures going to be in Northeast Ohio today? Just about everything is closed . Even the post office suspended mail d...

I spent my day yesterday mediating a case before the Ohio Civil Rights Commission. The mediation took place in a conference room on the 8th ...

Today is the start of the first full week of 2019. Which means it's a perfect time to take a step back and review your efforts at HR and...

Yesterday was Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement. For the uninitiated, it is the day on which we make peace with God for all of the s...

The Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion , a science museum showcasing one of the largest living arthropod collections in the Un...

Last week, Nike launched its new ad campaign featuring (former) NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick. He's most famous for being the first N...

On August 29, 2003, I married my wife. The ceremony was to start at 11 am, and by 10:55 I was nervous. Not your normal, "I'm abou...