The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FIRA) has ruled Citibank violated state anti-discrimination laws when it fired Edward Laurence Bowne in 2008—and...
Q. Some of our employees routinely ask to use FMLA when they are five or 10 minutes late. It’s a scheduling nightmare and hurts morale. Does the FMLA cover...
Q. We recently received a letter from an attorney representing one of our employees. It requested “all personnel files and records, including all medical...
Courts hold white employees who allege racial discrimination to a slightly higher standard than members of other protected classes. The higher standard is met if the...
You’ve got vision, while the rest of the world wears bifocals. If that bit of swagger sums up your leadership style, you’ve got something in common with...
Negative employee attitudes and less-than-professional behavior can poison the workplace atmosphere. Here are some tips for nipping negativity before it derails...
As an HR professional, you may come across employment practices that you think violate the law. What you do with that concern and how you express it may make the...
What makes an employee productive? Unproductive? “The key factor you can use to make employees miserable on the job is to simply keep them from making progress...
Microsoft Outlook does much more than you think. It can boost your productivity ... help you manage your workload ... even help you stay focused on your most...
In addition to giving job-specific tests, the best way to tell if applicants carry the skills to perform specific tasks is to ask very direct questions about how...
Are you using SharePoint 2007 or 2010 as a glorified file server? There are many opportunities to make SharePoint do some heavy lifting beyond just keeping your files...
One of the easiest and cheapest ways to boost employee morale and productivity, foster employee retention, reduce unscheduled absenteeism and become an employer of...
While Title VII prohibits discrimination based on any race or either gender, minorities and women aren’t the only ones protected by the law. So-called...
You expect colleges and universities to prepare your youngest workers for their new jobs. But are you prepared for them? These digital natives quickly grow impatient...
The FLSA restricts the docking of employees' pay. Many times employers' decisions on docking will push an employee from an exempt classification to a nonexempt, or...
Prepaid gift cards are an increasingly popular tool to motivate and reward employees. However, employers often weaken the impact by simply handing them out without a...
Americans simply don’t know how to take a vacation. Only 57% of U.S. workers use all the vacation days they’re allotted, compared with 89% of workers in...
While a casual dress policy may be a great way to boost morale during the warm days, tank tops and flip-flops are more appropriate attire for the beach than for the...
