?A workplace tribunal in Australia recently confirmed that employers can fire workers for excessive personal texting during work. An earth-moving company in Australia fired a manager in August 2021 due to her... Read more »
?The candidate experience is one of the most discussed recruitment measures in talent acquisition, and the employee experience has become a hallmark of talent management. But what about the recruiter experience? Successful... Read more »
?”Corporations don’t have feelings.” “No one got hurt.” “If my company’s going to cut my benefits, it owes me.” Those are among the excuses, workplace experts say, that employees use to justify... Read more »
?A former employee of Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. could not establish disability discrimination when there was no evidence that the managers who fired him knew of his disability prior to discharge,... Read more »
In his experience, says former employment law attorney Jathan Janove, annual performance reviews have more often increased claim risk than reduced it. Why? Reviews are frequently done so poorly that they generate... Read more »
An employee who refused to timely meet with his employer’s investigator could not sustain claims under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) even though he made recent complaints that his ADA rights... Read more »
At tax time, employers have an opportunity to let low- and moderate-income workers know about a special tax credit that can help them save for retirement through their employer-sponsored plan. Read more »
Employees suing an employer for creating a hostile work environment can consider a discrete decision, such as a promotion denial that they claim to be discriminatory, as part of the hostile-environment claim,... Read more »
A federal district court held that an employer’s shifting reasons for why it did not pay the plaintiff for weekend work demonstrated that the employer’s policy arguably was pretext for a gender-based... Read more »
By broadening the standard for who is considered an independent contractor under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has reduced the number of individuals who may... Read more »
