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What We Can Learn from the Military’s AAR

Businesses and the employees who populate them are often so busy moving from project to project that they don’t have time to sit down and evaluate what went well and what went wrong.

The Negotiation Revisited

Litigation Value: $350,000 Employers who fail to fire employees who tape pepper spray canisters, nunchucks, and throwing stars to the bottom of their desks are playing with fire. Expensive fire. Sure, Roy started it, and I’m glad Dunder Mifflin fired him. But what about Dwight? After all, the man kept weapons at work for God […]

OSHA and the NLRB gang up on employers

by Jeffrey A. Gruen The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will now refer all untimely retaliation claims to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to determine whether an employer engaged in an unfair labor practice (ULP) under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA).   Background On March 6, 2014, David Michaels, OSHA’s assistant secretary of […]

If David Wallace is Back, Can Michael Scott Be Far Behind?

Well, of course not. Steve Carell is much too much of a star now to make the move back to TV. (Quick: Can you name the actor who portrays David Wallace? Neither could I. His name is Andy Buckley.) Nevertheless, and as much as I love Ed Helms as Andy Bernard, it’s fun to think […]

NLRB in Court: SCOTUS Revises Injunction Standards, Other Standards Under Review

In a ruling widely considered a victory for employers, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that the standards for assessing an application by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) for a 10(j) injunction should be the same as used in other civil injunction applications. Although widely anticipated as bringing harmony to an area with numerous “circuit […]

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Survey: HR Gaining C-Suite Influence by Building Tech Capabilities

According to the inaugural Paychex Pulse of HR Survey, more than two-thirds of HR leaders at small- and mid-sized companies say they have grown beyond serving a traditional administrative function to taking on a more strategic role within their respective organizations.

The Best Recruiting Software Solutions of 2015

G2 Crowd has released its “G2 Crowd Grid℠ for Recruiting,” which uses a complex and “unbiased” system to determine the best recruiting software solutions available in 2015. In today’s Advisor we’ll explore some of G2 Crowd’s findings. Untouched By Human Hands Part of what makes the results of the G2’s analysis interesting involves the way […]