Blogs / 2013 / May

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	Onboarding Best Practices

	Good Guy = Bad Manager :: Bad Guy = Good Manager. Is it a Myth?

	Five Interview Tips for Winning Your First $100K+ Job

	Base Pay Increases Remain Steady in 2007, Mercer Survey Finds

	Online Overload: The Perfect Candidates Are Out There - If You Can Find Them

	Cartus Global Survey Shows Trend to Shorter-Term International Relocation Assignments

	New Survey Indicates Majority Plan to Postpone Retirement

	What do You Mean My Company’s A Stepping Stone?

	Rewards, Vacation and Perks Are Passé; Canadians Care Most About Cash

	Do’s and Don’ts of Offshoring

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Blogs / 2013 / May

If at first you don't succeed, try and try again. That is what the New York City Council (the Council) has done since 2009. And after four years, the result is a controversial sick leave law, the Earned Sick Time Act (the Act), which grants many empl... More...

Publication: Employee Benefit News Employee Benefit NewsA survey released last week of over 600 small businesses say that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is bad for their business. Littler... More...

INDIANAPOLIS, IN (May 14, 2013) – Alan L. McLaughlin, office managing shareholder in the Indianapolis office of Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has been awarded the 7th Cir... More...

Publication: Law360.com Law360.comLittler’s Michael Lotito provides insight into the controversial NLRB nominees and the uphill battle they will face.View Article ~ http://www.littler.c... More...

Publication: Thomson Reuters Westlaw Journal Employment Thomson Reuters Westlaw Journal EmploymentLittler’s Patrick H. Hicks and Hilary B. Muckleroy discuss an overall increase in disabi... More...

In May 2013, Governor Martin O'Malley signed three noteworthy statutes that will affect virtually every Maryland employer. Effective October 1, 2013, Maryland employers with 15 or more employees must provide their pregnant employees with certain rea... More...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 16, 2013) - Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, was ranked on the 13th Annual America’s Best Corporate Law Firm list compiled by Corporate Board Member m... More...

Virginia has enacted two new laws that are intended to enhance employee protections, particularly during union organizing drives in the Commonwealth. One law guarantees the right to vote in a secret ballot election. The other law limits those situa... More...

Publication: Law360.com Law360.comLittler’s Michael Lotito was featured in Employment Law360’s Q&A series. He discusses his position as co-chairman of the firm’s Workplace Policy Institu... More...

Effective January 1, 2014, recent amendments to Minnesota law will restrict the timing of pre-employment inquiries by most private employers into a candidate’s criminal past. Employers who are not exempted from the law may not (1) inquire into or co... More...

On May 6, 2013, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper signed into law the Job Protection and Civil Rights Enforcement Act Of 2013 (Act), which amends the Colorado Anti-Discrimination Act (CADA), the state law prohibiting employment discrimination becau... More...

As of May 7, 2013, employers in Venezuela must comply with the new wage and hour law established one year ago under Venezuela's employment law reform act, known as the Organic Law of Labor and Workers1 (the "LOTTT", for its Spanish acronym). The LOT... More...

SAN FRANCISCO, CA (May 24, 2013) - Littler Mendelson, P.C. (Littler), the world’s largest employment and labor law firm representing management, has been recognized in the 2013 edition of Chambers: USA: America’s Leading Lawyers for Business. Littler... More...

Desde el 7 de Mayo de 2013 los empleadores venezolanos están obligados a cumplir la nueva legislación laboral decretada hace un año bajo la figura de Reforma de la Ley del Trabajo venezolana y la cual se conoce como Ley Orgánica del Trabajo, los Trab... More...

Text posted Thursday, May 9, 2013 Recruiting is just like sales. The first step is developing a “sales” message compelling enough to attract a large applicant pool. The problem is that many employers are still offering the same long-term career oppor... More...

Video posted Monday, May 13, 2013 Transcript of video available by clicking here. NOTE: This is a SAMPLE LESSON from the 21-lesson Recruiting Generation Y program in our new video-based training site, TalkAboutTheWork.com℠. b... More...

In the workplace of the past, among the keys to selection was seeking to identify good prospects for long-term employment: Will this person join the corporate family, hitch her/his wagon to your star, pay his/her dues and climb the ladder? Applicants... More...

Video posted Monday, May 20, 2013 Transcript of video available by clicking here. NOTE: This is a SAMPLE LESSON from the 21-lesson Recruiting Generation Y program in our video-based training site, TalkAboutTheWork.com℠. brightcove.createExperien... More...

Video posted Tuesday, May 28, 2013 Transcript of video available by clicking here . NOTE: This is a SAMPLE LESSON from the 21-lesson Recruiting Generation Y program in our video-based training site, TalkAboutTheWork.com℠. br... More...

The other day someone came to our HRmarketer website from a 2005 post on MarketingSherpa that referenced our site and included a link to it. That link is over seven years old!The visitor clicked the link, landed on our website, visited seven differen... More...

My 2-year-old daughter hasn’t been a big talker (at least in the form of words that adults can understand), mostly just a word or two at a time. Last week, however, she started singing “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star,” and as toddlers are known to do... More...

Author’s note: This blog post is part of an ongoing series called “Diving Deep Into …” Each post explores a topic beyond just the surface, looking at the trending articles, the people engaged with it and the media outlets covering it. To assemble the... More...

The United States Postal Service recently announced it would suspend Saturday mail delivery in an attempt to save about $2 billion—and its own skin. That’s sad, but I’m not surprised. The organization is fraught with bureaucratic and pricing structur... More...

Infographics are cool. For viewers/readers: they present valuable information that is easily digestible and quick to consume. For publishers, they generate a lot of traffic and social shares, and they’re fun to make.Content marketing is also popular.... More...

“The most common source of management mistakes is not the failure to find the right answer. It is the failure to ask the right questions.” ~Peter Drucker How do you decide what to spend on marketing? Ask the right questions. An HR software... More...

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Are You Feeling Sick? New York City Passes a New Sick Leave Law

ACA Bad for business, say small employers

Littler’s Alan L. McLaughlin Awarded 2013 Pro Bono and Public Service Award by the 7th Circuit Bar Association

Controversial NLRB Nominees Face Rocky Road Ahead

The Accommodation Minefield: How The Rise In Disability Claims Complicates Leave Policies

Legislation Roundup: Maryland General Assembly Mandates that Employers Provide "Light Duty" to Pregnant Disabled Women, Leave for Military Family Members, and Creates a New Wage Law

Littler Ranks Among 25 Best Corporate Law Firms in the U.S.

New Employee Privacy and Union Voting Rights Laws in Virginia Go Into Effect July 2013

Q&A With Littler Mendelson's Michael Lotito

Minnesota Enacts “Ban the Box Law" Prohibiting Employment Application Criminal History Checkmark Boxes and Restricting Criminal Record Inquiries Until After Interviews or Conditional Job Offers

Major Changes to Colorado Discrimination Law Will Negatively Impact Employers Large and Small

Venezuela Employers Beware: New Regulations Establish Additional Wage and Hour Requirements

Littler Mendelson Named in the 2013 Chambers USA Guide

Alerta a los Empleadores Venezolanos: Nuevo Reglamento Establece Requisitos Adicionales a la Jornada Laboral y Días de Descanso

Developing a Compelling Recruiting Message for Today’s Young Workers

Widen Your Pool of Candidates with Friend Referrals (Part II)

Selecting for Skill and Performance Ability

Finding Gen Yers Online

Tapping Parents, Teachers, and Counselors

Content Marketing & Inbound Links: Gifts That Keep on Giving

5 Quick Ways to Expand Your Content Marketing Reach

Diving Deep Into …PPACA

Lessons in Customer Service: Don’t Act Like the Post Office

13 Great Content Marketing Infographics

5 Questions to Help Determine Your Marketing Budget