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Babe Ruth was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. His record of 714 home runs remained unbroken for decades until Hank Aaron finally surpassed him. The Babe was the idol of sports fans but, in time, age took its toll, and his popularity began to wane. Finally, the Yankees traded him to […]
An employee is claiming that they are unable to perform an essential function of their job due to infertility treatments and may potentially need to miss work as a result. How should this be treated under FMLA, ADA, and/or the Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA)?
I don’t usually pass along pop-culture links, but this one was too good to be true. On Tuesday of this week, TMZ reported that Steve Carell, who plays Michael Scott on The Office, was selected for jury duty in an employment-related dispute in California! Well, at least he had some experience with litigation earlier this […]
Courtesy of California Employer Resources®, Marie Burke Kenny, an experienced employment law attorney in San Diego, answers questions with valuable training information about dealing with problem employees. Do you have an overarching piece of advice to give to employers, right off the bat? “Starting right at the interviewing stage, the most important thing employers and […]
By Susan Schoenfeld, JD For more information on these and other recent developments in state leave law, see the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), sick leave, and maternity and pregnancy topic analyses for your state.
Major changes in the workplace will occur in 2014 as “old-school” management protocols and practices give way to fast-moving, as well as more productive and more satisfying, models for engaging employees, according to Fierce, Inc., leadership development and training experts. The insights and predictions are based on Fierce, Inc.’s training experiences with organizations ranging from […]
I’m a Wake Forest basketball fan from way back, so I’ve followed Tim Duncan’s professional career closely since 1998. All the sports fans out there are well aware by now that Duncan’s San Antonio Spurs won their fifth NBA title last night in convincing fashion over the Miami Heat. All the Spurs’ titles have come […]
The next generation of workers is already on its way, and high school seniors have already formed some pretty concrete opinions around life in the working world. A new CareerBuilder survey looked at how this next generation’s opinions compare to that of the current workforce, and there are some surprising results. One thing they have […]
Brilliant™—a staffing and management resources firm specializing in accounting, finance, and information technology (IT)—has released its Q1 2018 Hiring Forecast. The data indicates an increase in open accounting, finance, and IT positions heading into the first quarter of 2018. Further, businesses are planning to increase their overall hiring plans in the next 12 months, especially […]
We’re in the middle of election season and the race for the White House. When you’re deciding between McCain and Obama, perhaps it would help if you treated the election like what it really is: a job interview. Sometimes the questions the candidates are asked are ridiculous (boxers or briefs), and sometimes the answers the […]