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Here are articles on hot employment law issues that effect managers and supervisors in everyday work situations for your ongoing learning. To search by specific workplace issues, we have also organized these articles into a list of FAQs.
Posted 09-19-2012 Where do employees go when they want to report workplace misconduct such as harassment, stealing, or substance abuse? The company hotline? Human Resources? [...]
Posted 07-24-2012 Sure, times are tough, and perhaps your organization's training budget has taken a hit. But so-called "bargain" anti-harassment training may turn out to [...]
Posted 06-20-2012 Remember Friendster? That was one of the very first social media websites, established a long, long, long time ago. Way back in 2002. [...]
Posted 05-16-2012 Employers, brace for a "brain drain": The Baby Boom generation has started to retire, leaving higher-level positions in management and technical fields unfilled. [...]
Posted 04-12-2012 As you read in February's e-news, retaliation has been the #1 claim filed with the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for the past [...]
Posted 03-14-2012 The U.S. Supreme Court has issued its first employment law decision of 2012, unanimously recognizing a "ministerial exception" to discrimination laws, which allows [...]
Posted 02-09-2012 In late January, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its 2011 enforcement figures. A record 99,947 charges were filed, and [...]
Posted 12-14-2011 This time of year, Santa finds out who's naughty and nice. But the U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division makes its [...]
Posted 11-09-2011 Michael Serricchio, a member of the U.S. Air Force Reserve, was a financial advisor for Prudential Securities in Connecticut, managing a multi-million dollar [...]
Posted 10-18-2011 When he was 49, Thomas Gortemoller was hired by a furniture manufacturer and importer as its manager of imports. He was responsible for [...]