We're a team, we need to work together. Maybe we need to have a department meeting where we workshop with each other and really get to k...

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"It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…." This is perhaps the most famous opening line in the history of literature,...

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Last Friday, after sharing  the Old 97's new holiday classic from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special , I asked LinkedIn for th...

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We are no longer taking ANY EXCUSE for calling off. If you're sick, you need to come prove it to us. If your dog died, you need to bring...

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"I'm an investigator with the Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor. I'm here to conduct an investigation into how ...

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Take a look at the following headlines, each taken from a Department of Labor news release from just the past month. US Department of Labor...

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In 2017, a series of personal adversities, including probation for an incident with a gun and an ex-girlfriend, cocaine use, and a DUI arres...

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I love a good Christmas song. The problem is that too many of them are just not very good. Today, I'm adding one to your holiday music p...

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It's the most wonderful time of the year. I've made my list. I've checked it twice. Now it's time to find out who's naug...

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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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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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"What's the first film you remember seeing?" That’s the lead off question on each episode of Films to be Buried With — Brett ...

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