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Dear Joan: I just read your response to Dealing with the Workplace Sniper and I think that was excellent advice. I have a very similar issue only the employee works for me. I believe she is badmouthing me behind my back and brings down... More...

Excerpted from West Virginia Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Steptoe & Johnson PLLC. Trouble employees - everyone has them. Employers are constantly faced with situations in which employees create unnecessary problems... More...

Recently, I had a long-time colleague say: ´Krista, you really need to work on compartmentalizing things.´ At first I thought it was a typical guy thing to say - so uncaring - and I blew him off thinking he was being callous. But I know m... More...

"Don´t sweat the small stuff." This seems like sound advice, but it doesn´t apply when the little things are the array of diminutive computing and communications gadgets that are proliferating in the workplace. Whether they´re pr... More...

Racial and ethnic slurs and other inappropriate comments made in the workplace failed to decline last year, according to an annual telephone survey by Novations Group, a global consulting organization based in Boston. As in the prior t... More...

Dear Joan: I work in the HIM Dept. (Health Information Management, formerly known as medical records) in a hospital. Most of our employees, medical transcriptionists, work for salary plus incentive pay, and some work at home and so... More...

Workplace complaint investigations are a necessary part of every human resource practice. When the investigation is over, we breathe a sigh of relief and, all too often, put it behind us. If we never go back, however, we miss an important... More...

Dear Joan: I am in a very frustrating position at work. I work for a company that I have been with for six years now. I have been the office manager of the satellite company for five years. It is a small office and I manage four women in the o... More...

Dear Joan, I have an employee working for me that has the worst attendance I have ever witnessed. She started eight months ago, and during that time has had two negative performance reviews because of her attendance. As an example, in the last ... More...

Q: Should an employer try to keep personal relationships out of the workplace, and if so, how should it be done? A: I have often been asked to provide guidance regarding problems stemming from personal relationships in the workplace. It isn't unus... More...

Excerpted from Maine Employment Law Letter, written by attorneys at the law firm Murray, Plumb & Murray Unless you live in an alternate universe - and maybe even if you do - you know someone who's crazy about the Harry Potter series. Maybe it'... More...

"Off-the-clock" conduct is increasingly resulting in costs to employers. Additionally, off-duty conduct that has long added to cost for employers (such as smoking or other unhealthy conduct) is now being identified and measured. In an att... More...

Dear Joan: I have experience similar to what you have described in your recent column about favoritism, the twist being I was one of the favorites. I never see a favorite writing in to complain, but I am! I was extremely uncomfortable with this... More...

Dear Joan: I work in an office and have been in the particular department for over 10 years. I am at my wits end, and wonder if you can see any solution, or if I need to look elsewhere. Our boss supervises eight of us. She has been here six yea... More...

We've looked at how, for a variety of reasons, these thresholders find it more difficult to achieve independence, financial and otherwise. And some do rely on their family to support them or at least provide partial support. Some families... More...

Excerpted from North Carolina Employment Law Letter, written by the law firm Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC http://www.HRhero.com/ncemp.shtml?HLe Complaints are a common part of work. In fact, some employees rely on complain... More...

Dear Joan: I work for a boss who constantly sets me up for failure. Until now, I have been able to rise to the challenges she has placed before me and proved her wrong in whatever she thought of me. In the five years I have been employed with t... More...

Welcome to Littler´s Employment Law Quiz! Fine-tune your knowledge of employment law while improving your employee relations skills at the same time. You can test yourself or send this quiz around to your managers. Good luck! Preventing Work... More...

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