In the spirit of the holiday party season, Mike VanDervort made the following challenge on his blog, The Human Race Horses: On November 30,...

Earlier today, it was announced that comedian Patrice O'Neal passed away. He succumbed to complications from a stroke he suffered last m...

Do you employ outside salespeople (pharmaceutical reps, for instance)? If so, then you are going to want to pay attention to what will trans...

Did you know that the ability to yell at one’s students is an essential function of a teacher? According to Johnson v. Cleveland City School...

I learned something new yesterday. I learned, from my kindergartener, that the first Thanksgiving feast lasted three days. I am thankful t...

I haven’t always been a lawyer. During a previous life (high school and college), I spent weekends and summers as a bar mitzvah DJ, a nursin...

Today’s post is a little different. It's the first I’ve ever written that is not being debuted on my own blog. Today is my first endeavo...

The news has been pretty somber this week, with the sexual abuse of children dominating the headlines. So, I thought we needed a light-heart...

Last week, SHRM released the results of its 3rd survey on Social Media in the Workplace [pdf] . SHRM polled 532 randomly selected HR profes...

Last Monday, I asked the following question: “What happens to an employee’s social media account when the employee leaves a company?” The v...

Light night, I tuned in with curiosity for Bob Costas’s interview with Jerry Sandusky . That curiosity turned to stunned outrage when Sandus...

Frank Roche, writing at his KnowHR blog , made the following observation the morning after Penn State announced that it had fired Joe Patern...

This week offered a lot of potential themes from which I could pick for today’s “WIRTW”: Joe Paterno (come back Monday for my thoughts on th...

This time next week, I’ll be in San Diego presenting on workplace social media issues at the 2011 Human Resources & Employer Compliance ...

In Fulton v. ODJFS (11/3/11) [pdf] , the employee argued that he was entitled to recover unemployment compensation because his employer fai...

By now, you’ve likely read or heard about the disturbing sexual abuse scandal involving Jerry Sandusky, Penn State’s former defensive coordi...

What happens to an employee’s social media account when the employee leaves a company? One British court has answered this question by orde...

I spent the first half of last week in Denver. I took the opportunity of a free Monday morning to walk the city. In front of the Colorado St...

In Veal v. Upreach LLC (10/20/11) , an employee claimed that her employer terminated her in retaliation for her contacting the EEOC. The co...

My manifesto—the Employer’s Bill of Rights—continues to generate links (thanks Kris Dunn and Walter Olson ) and comments . One commenter as...