The Real Impact of Successful Talent Referrals
How willing are you to change the way you reach out to talent, to increase not only your success hire rate but also your staff retention? A decade ago, that…
Reinventing Your Job Ads: How to Make Candidates Care Enough to Click
One of the first lessons you learn in marketing is that no one really cares about your brand. In fact, most consumers would not care if 74% of brands disappeared…
Don't Just Adapt to Change—Lead It
The real winners in business today are those who thrive during times of transformation
Employers Should Take the Lead on Paid Caregiver Leave
The aging of the
How to Create a Bully-Proof Workplace
More than 1 in 4 Americans deal with an on-the-job bully. While there are no general civility or anti-bullying laws in place at the federal or state levels, companies that…
Employer to Pay $1.8 Million for Failing to Accommodate Prescription Drug Use
A Washington federal district court judge ordered an employer to pay a terminated employee a little over $ million in damages for failing to accommodate the employee’s use of opioids…
Do Employers Need to Accommodate Medical Marijuana Users?
A registered medical marijuana user who was fired by her employer for failing a drug test can proceed in state court with her disability discrimination claim, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial…
New Jersey Nurse’s Disability Discrimination Claims May Proceed to Trial
A registered nurse employed by a New Jersey health care system for approximately 10 years may proceed to a jury trial with her disability and perceived disability claims under the…
Concerns About Propriety of Romantic Relationship Upheld
An employee cannot prevail on claims of sex discrimination or retaliation without showing that the employer's reasons for any alleged adverse employment actions were a pretext for discrimination or retaliation
DOL Asks if Multiple Salary Levels for Overtime Exemptions Are a Good Idea
The Department of Labor (DOL) suggested more complex alternatives to the blocked overtime rule of the Obama administration in its July 25 request for information on overtime