I support OSHA’s temporary worker focus. Employers need to take more steps to ensure that temporary employees don’t fall through the cracks and do not … Read more
High Court Extends Sarbanes-Oxley Whistleblower Law to Most Employees
By Ed Ellis, Gregory Keating, and Stephen Melnick In Lawson v. FMR LLC, the U.S. Supreme Court massively expanded the scope of the anti-retaliation … Read more
Senate Committee Debates Fairness of Paycheck Fairness Act
In advance of an expected floor vote, the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions held a hearing this week to discuss the merits of the … Read more
More States Bump Up Workplace Protections for Pregnant Women
By Ashley Kaplan When Jennifer Latowski, a certified nursing assistant at Northwoods Nursing Center, shared with her supervisor that she was pregnant, she … Read more
Alcoholism on the Job: The Tricky Issue Handling It Under the ADA
By Eric B. Meyer Alcoholism is generally a disability. Under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the term “disability” is broadly defined. … Read more
How Not to Get Sued For April Foolishness in the Workplace
Editor’s note: This popular post from 2013 seemed appropriate to bring back today. There’s a distinct possibility that some of your employees will do … Read more
The Unintended Consequences When Workers Bring Their Devices to Work
By Paul Starkman At the top of the list of risks guaranteed to give HR a headache this year is employee use of personal technology for work. It was only a … Read more
BLS Minimum Wage Report: Is There Anything Worthwhile In it?
By John E. Thompson The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics has released a report entitled Characteristics of Minimum Wage Workers, 2013 which claims that … Read more
Tim Sackett’s HR 101: What Do You Do If an Employee is Carrying a Gun?
Okay, HR fans, here’s the game — I give you a real-life HR scenario and you tell me how you would handle it if your were the HR person in charge of … Read more
Recruiting to Avoid a Rocky Mountain High — the Impact of State Marijuana Laws
How a state law becomes a recruiting issue I recently visited Boulder, Colorado, and guess what: everyone there was talking about the new marijuana law. … Read more