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
Independent Contractor Compliance: What Employers Need to Consider
Independent workers – whether they’re called independent contractors, freelancers or the self-employed – continue to be a significant factor in the … 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
Weekly Wrap: More Evidence of Why You Should Worry About Retention
Here’s some shocking news: employees aren’t terribly satisfied with their jobs, their employers, their growth opportunities under their current … Read more
Appeals Court Says Yes, Employees CAN Openly Discuss Wages
By Eric B. Meyer Over the past several years, seemingly, we’re seen the National Labor Relations Board take a more active interest in employee … Read more
Get Ready, Because the H-1B Visa Games Are Ready to Begin
By Shanon R. Stevenson The Hunger Games Katniss Everdeen’s bow and arrow will not help employers on April 1, 2014 when the competition for H-1B work visas … Read more
The Leadership Drought: Why It’s the No. 1 Issue for Organizations Today
Last week, I discussed one of the trends (re-skilling HR teams) called out in Deloitte’s annual Global Human Capital Trends report for 2014. Recently … Read more