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Hello- I just started a job and I am managing a number of department managers that are coming and going as they please, and not putting in their full 40 hours a week. The job seems to be getting done, but when they leave in less than 8 ho... More...

In a refreshingly practical decision, the California Court of Appeal reversed a tip-sharing verdict against Starbucks, erasing an $86 million dollar judgment. In Chau v. Starbucks Corporation, the Court of Appeal held that California law did not pro... More...

Excerpted from Oklahoma Employment Law Letter written by attorneys at the law firm of McAfee & Taft by Rachel Blue Lately, we've seen a lot of employees walking out of buildings and plants with boxes of framed photos from their desks or lo... More...

Research out of York University conducted earlier this year examining the impact of manager and team absence behaviour on employee absence behaviour has produced interesting preliminary findings. Results suggest that manager absence is a driver of te... More...

The quick and simple answer to this often repeated question is a resounding, “YES!” Despite my strong feelings and the even stronger legal precedence in support of having an employee handbook, I find in my journeys that most small business entrepren... More...

History has shown that new employment laws and regulations typically follow periods of societal change or economic turbulence. Right now we’re experiencing both: between the new presidential administration and the economic recession, we can cou... More...

Employers have long recognized that conducting due diligence on new hires is a mission critical task. Firms cannot afford to be sidetracked by employee problems such as workplace violence, theft, false resumes, embezzlement, harassment or trumped-up ... More...

How does HIPAA come into play with a gym that asks for medical information on their application and Personal Trainers that ask you for personal medical information before they provide one-on-one training? Are they governed by the same regulation... More...

The offshoring industry uses a three-pronged strategy to purge Americans out of the I.T. industry: 1. DENIGRATE 2. DISCRIMINATE 3. DISPLACE If you ever watch someone like Duke Prof. Vivik Wadhwa, offshoring lobbyist and advocate ... More...

The current economic crisis is impacting companies of all sizes, and layoffs are happening in virtually every industry, including such high-tech giants as Microsoft, IBM, Cisco and AT&T. Managing these layoffs is difficult under any circumstance... More...

Reports of identity theft — one of the nation’s fastest growing financial crimes — continue to make headline news. Articles like “Worker Charged in Hospital File Thefts”1 and “Employment Records Prove Ripe Source f... More...

December 2008 by Ginger McRae, Esq., SPHR EPS Senior Consultant • Atlanta, Georgia gmcrae@EPSpros.com Human resource professionals are often confronted with situations in which they must determine whether what someone is saying is credible... More...

May 2009 Creative Cost Control in Contentious Times: Implementing an ADR Program var addthis_pub = "epspros" addthis_brand = 'EPSpros.com'; addthis_options = 'email, delicious, digg, linkedin, facebook, favorites, g... More...

Social networking tools are being used more frequently and more effectively to help plan and execute events. Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, StumbleUpon, and other applications are all terrific tools to help you to drive traffic and create bu... More...

Excerpted from Colorado Employment Law Letter written by attorneys at the law firm of Holland & Hart LLP The Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (WARN Act) requires employers with 100 or more workers to provide 60 days' advance n... More...

The idea that India exports software products is a myth peddled by globalists and irritional capitalists. India has hardly any commercial products, any software, any operating systems, or enterprise applications that have been developed in the countr... More...

In corporate America, pre-employment background checks of new hires have become a standard risk-management tool. It is no longer a matter of whether a firm should screen applicants, but how to accomplish it. A 2004 study released by the Society for H... More...

If a 3rd party is contracted out to perform training for key management personnel and they include surveys to employees on the manager - is the information they collect the ownership of the Company or the 3rd party? More...

Findley Davies works with companies interested in maximizing the effectiveness of their human resources strategies and programs. They specialize in helping clients attract and retain talent, enhance the effectiveness of HR processes, leverage technol... More...

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Ending a relationship is a difficult undertaking—whether a personal relationship or an employment relationship. While not qualified to give advice about personal relationships, as an employment lawyer, I can advise on how to end the employment... More...

From our roots in sexual harassment training and related programming designed to change workplace behavior and minimize legal risk, ELI has continued to evolve since our establishmen in 1986. Today, building on the philosophy of our founder and Presi... More...

Global Leaders Need a Different Way of Being Smart - by Jack Keogh (www.JackKeogh.com) Executives tend to be an anxious bunch of people. Their collective anxiety tends to drive “management fads” to deal with perceived dangers and to... More...

The way people from the different countries react to these days of great uncertainty and economic recession can give clues to cultural differences. I have been noticing how the current global recession is perceived in Mexico and in the US. In ... More...

Published in the Vashon Beachcomber (Vashon Island, Washington) Mar 04 2009 OpEd by Karen du Four des Champs I was in the middle of updating a client’s harassment in the workplace policy and customizing my over 100th training on t... More...

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Introduction to International Background Screening of Job Candidates

HIPAA and The World of Fitness

How To Stop The Discrimination In I.T.

Visa-Related Considerations for HR Managers Handling Layoffs

Who’s Got Your Number? NY Employers Must Now Secure Employees’ SSNs

Assessing Credibility in Workplace Investigations

Creative Cost Control in Contentious Times: Implementing an ADR Program

Using Social Networking to Plan & Executive Your Events

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