After a decade of slowly declining workplace drug test results, Quest Diagnostics, which describes itself as “the world’s leading provider of … Read more
EEOC Is Now Taking on Fitness-For-Duty Medical Releases
By Eric B. Meyer Congratulations! Your fitness-for-duty employee medical examinations are job-related or consistent with business necessity. So, they pass … Read more
Why Is It That So Many Employees Don’t Trust Their Employers?
More than half of us don’t believe our employers are open and upfront with us. This disturbing news comes to us from the American Psychological … Read more
Survey Shows How Much Millennials Continue to Defy Expectations
Approximately 80 million Millennials live in the U.S today. In my last post on talent acquisition trends, I touched on the fact that this group is the … Read more
The Complicated Dynamics Behind Workplace Bullying
I just didn’t want to go anymore. She made it nearly unbearable. It didn’t start off that way, though. When we first started working together as colleagues … Read more
Building Culture Is Always Better Than Trying to Transform It
Should we stop trying to transform culture? During a recent keynote, Jeb Dasteel, Senior Vice President and Chief Customer Officer at Oracle Corporation, … Read more
Should You “Out” Employees and Make Public What They’re Paid?
In a few weeks, I am going to talk with a local compensation association about pay transparency. As I’ve been writing over the last few months, I … Read more
5 Reasons You Need Coaches (or at Least, a Cheerleader) at Work
Life coaches and personal trainers seem to be the new status symbol. From corporate CEOs to the 19-year-old French student, everyone’s talking about the … Read more
Court: ADA Requires Accommodating Employees With Angry Outbursts
By Eric B. Meyer The Americans with Disabilities Act requires that employers provide reasonable accommodation to employees with disabilities when doing so … Read more
August Job Growth Is the Slowest So Far This Year
Editor’s note: The Weekly Wrap is taking one more week of vacation. It will return next week. Even taking into account the usual summer hiring … Read more