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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