EFCA: What’s All the Fuss About?
Yesterday, we shared some thoughts from Phillip Russell, Esq. of Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLP on what the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would mean for employers.
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Managing Up—to a Difficult Boss
In yesterday’s Advisor, we presented the first two “D’s” in managing up—dealing with difficult bosses. Today, we’ll continue with the last two D’s and take a look at a unique program for small HR departments. The four D’s are from Working for You Isn’t Working for Me, the recently published book by Katherine Crowley and […]
Working for You Isn’t Working for Me
Far too often, people placed in positions of authority are unable to manage, guide, or direct us adequately. In fact, the people in charge often become the biggest obstacle to their employees’ success, say Katherine Crowley and Kathi Elster. Crowley and Elster, authors of the recently released Working for You Isn’t Working for Me, offer […]
Advertising Requirements Before Hiring Foreign Worker
By Gilda Villaran In our January 4, 2010, article titled Obtaining a Work Permit in Canada: The Labour Market Opinion Process, we explained that in order to get a work permit for a foreign worker, an employer in Canada generally must first obtain a Labour Market Opinion (LMO) from the Department of Human Resources and […]
FMLA: Experts Answer Some ‘Easy’ FMLA Questions
FMLA leaves should be routine by now, but the exasperating questions keep cropping up, don’t they? In today’s Advisor, some of the tricky questions BLR®’s editors have tackled, and an introduction to an FMLA program that will help you answer all your FMLA questions. Can an employee take FMLA for a critically ill grandchild (or […]
Will Your Investigation Satisfy a Jury?
If you carry out misconduct investigations, how good should they be? As good as the jury thinks they should be, say today’s experts. And that better be pretty darn good, because juries expect a lot from HR.
Why That Great Business Idea Won’t Work for You
On Fridays, California Employer Daily will often be given over to an “E-pinion” column by Jennifer Carsen, Esq., ERI’s Managing Editor. If you’ve got an idea for a 500-700 word column on any topic of interest to California employers, we’d love to have you as a guest columnist. Just describe your idea in a brief […]
Eleventh Circuit Decision Is Immigration Bombshell for Employer
Immigration reform appears to have stalled yet again, but the legal implications for employers have not. Back in 2005 and again in 2006 there was a novel case in which legal employees used a law designed to target organized crime to sue their employer over its use of illegal employees. The case bounced around the […]
Publication of New ADA and GINA Regulations Delayed
By Burton J. Fishman In a prior notice, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) announced that its new Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) regulations would be issued this month and that new Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) regulations should be out in July. It now appears those dates were overly optimistic. In a public session […]