By Eric B. Meyer Barbara Joy McElmurry worked for the Arizona Department of Agriculture. In a Complaint she filed in federal court, she alleged that her … Read more
Develop a Recruiter Scorecard … Because Champions Demand That You Keep Score (Part 2 of a 2-part series)
How to develop a recruiter scorecard for assessing individual corporate recruiter performance Champions insist that you keep score. If you understand that … Read more
If Your Unpaid Interns Are Productive and Valuable, You Could Be in Trouble
Unpaid internships have been a dicey proposition for employers for almost as long as the Fair Labor Standards Act has been on the books. For the first … Read more
Court Ruling May Make You Rethink Taking on Unpaid Interns
By John E. Thompson We have repeatedly cautioned that employers who are prepared to take on unpaid interns should enter into these arrangements with their … Read more
OSHA Cranks Up Its Focus on Safety for Temporary Employees
By Ed Foulke In a recent memorandum from the national office to its Regional Administrators, OSHA set forth new issues that Compliance Officers should … Read more
Pay Practice Myths? They Can Leave You With a Big FLSA Problem
By John E. Thompson There has always been a great deal of mistaken conventional wisdom afoot where the federal Fair Labor Standards Act is concerned. We … Read more
What You Need to Do to Prepare Your Company for an I-9 Audit
By Jessica Cook The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) continues to issue Form I-9 Notices of Inspection to … Read more
We Need the Young to Help Eliminate Age Discrimination in the Workplace
Discrimination has been with us for a long, long time, based on one characteristic or another that allows one group to identify another as less worthy, … Read more
Court Rules That Firing a Woman for Lactating at Work is Against the Law
By Eric B. Meyer Last week, the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans ruled that discharging a female employee because she is lactating or … Read more
Employee Claims Age Discrimination, Says He Got “Office Space” Treatment
By Eric B. Meyer If the movie Office Space has taught me anything, it’s to wear 37 pieces of flair to work — do more than the bare minimum … Read more