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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 11-10-2010 Let's face it: Even though our economy is slowly recovering from the Great Recession, times are tough, with HR, management, and workers being [...]
Posted 10-06-2010 You might think that the typical sexual harassment case involves a man harassing a woman, and you would be right. But sexual harassment [...]
Posted 09-16-2010 We've written a lot lately about the growth in retaliation claims, which in 2009 were the #1 claim brought before the EEOC. State [...]
Posted 08-04-2010 In late June, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down its long-awaited decision in City of Ontario, California v. Quon, upholding an employer's [...]
Posted 07-07-2010 If you work for a federal contractor with $100,000 or more in federal contracts, or a federal subcontractor with $10,000 or more, you [...]
Posted 06-09-2010 In a Spring, 2010 opinion, the New Jersey Supreme Court unanimously held that the attorney-client privilege applied to e-mails sent by an employee [...]
Posted 05-12-2010 With the passage of health care reform legislation in March, 2010, (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010) there has been a [...]
Posted 04-14-2010 For many managers, the annual performance review is, like death and taxes, dreaded and inevitable. But it doesn't have to be that way. [...]
Posted 03-03-2010 The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that employees filed 93,277 workplace discrimination charges with the federal agency nationwide during Fiscal [...]
Posted 02-10-2010 Tara Richerson worked for a school district as a coach and mentor to new teachers. She was an active blogger, as well. One day [...]