According to a recent American Bar Foundation study, no one (other than perhaps lawyers) believes that employment lawsuits are a good thing. The … Read more
How Sarcastic Emails Can Hurt Your Company’s ADA Defense
By Craig Annunziata and Steve Miller To: HR Manager Subject line: Are you kidding me? Body of email: Can you believe the nerve of this employee? He just … Read more
Switzerland & Toyota: 3 Things We Can Learn to Innovate and Create Jobs
Businesses in the U.S. and Europe face the same challenge: compete with emerging economies that have a fraction of the labor costs and minimal health and … Read more
Federal Legislation Re-introduced to Help Promote Hiring of Veterans
By Eric B. Meyer To improve the reinstatement rights of returning war veterans, and to add more enforcement teeth to the Uniform Services Employment and … Read more
Hardest Jobs to Fill Survey: It’s Still Engineers, IT, and the Skilled Trades
It’s one of the defining issues of our current economic climate: despite a national unemployment rate of 8 percent, it’s still tough for many … Read more
Hiring Wisdom: A Few Good Tips From a Google Recruiter
If you want to hire the best, you have to go after the best because, on average, only about 17 percent of the workforce is actively looking for a job (and … Read more
Good Times or Bad, Everyone is Watching What Management is Doing
“In the end, I want to know that the next paycheck is coming. Everything else is secondary.” I thought of that statement from an employee who was afraid … Read more
The Six Big “C’s” of Total Rewards
Another year, another Total Rewards conference ended. Also another chance to indulge in my favorite post-conference pastime, looking back and trying to … Read more
The Returning Veteran: 8 Strategies to Ease Their Return to the Workplace
While celebrated upon their return from active duty, veterans pose a variety of challenges for employers when reentering the workforce. Federal laws like … Read more
Weekly Wrap: Employees Don’t Think Much of Their Manager’s Skills
I love people who aren’t afraid to stand up and speak their mind (yes, that means you Laurie Ruettimann). And that’s why this survey of British … Read more