Does Your Company Encourage Continuing Education?
A new survey focused on accountancy has widespread implications for workplace learning in all fields.
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Contender or Pretender? Identifying Both in Sports and at Work
Contender or Pretender? It’s a recurring segment in sports media, and a fun talking point amongst fans, where the debate is whether a team is “for real,” particularly early in the season. Read on to see how contender or pretender can be applied to candidates and employees, alike.
The Link Between Diversity and Innovation
A recent survey suggests that nearly everyone believes that cultivating diversity in the workplace is critical for driving innovation.
Morning Meals Make Teacher Tardy
Did your teachers accept your excuses for being tardy when you were in school, or were you given a detention anyway? Well, a school board had to deal with someone who was late nearly one third of the time—but it was a teacher!
Bravo!
No, he wasn’t in a production of “Batman the Musical,” but an actor did a damn good job of thwarting the impact of a workplace accident that could have injured others.
UPS Settles Meal Break Suit For $87 Million
Which States Pay Best—and Worst—for the Most Dangerous Jobs?
New research reveals the highest and lowest-paying states for dangerous occupations, including logging workers, fishers, aircraft pilots, roofers and garbage collectors. The analysis of mean salaries in all 50 states for jobs with the highest industry rates revealed that only 15 states pay above the national average of $56,795 for these dangerous jobs.
Business groups applaud ruling against NLRB poster
Probusiness groups are cheering a new ruling from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit that represents another blow to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). The appeals court, which issued another ruling against the NLRB in January, ruled on May 7 that the Board exceeded its authority in its effort […]
Salary Ain’t the Rule: Don’t Just Assume the Overtime Exemption Applies
I hear the incredulity from clients constantly: “Overtime? We pay our employees a salary—they aren’t eligible for overtime.” I call it the salary assumption. Unofficially, it’s the most common misconception in employment law. And it’s an understandable mistake. If an employee is paid a salary, how could an hourly overtime rate apply? The Fair Labor […]
Olympics and the power of positivity and unity
They did it again. The Olympics sucked me in. I am an admitted hard core sports fan when it comes to my professional teams, but like most people I’m not usually watching swimming, beach volleyball, or [fill in the blank with virtually any other summer Olympic sport] in my free time. However, I always get […]