Employee Relations
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2 April 2012 at 19 : 32 PM
What Does March Madness Do to Your Office?
It all ends today. The NCAA champions of March Madness will be decided during a fierce matchup between Kansas and Kentucky this evening in New Orleans. While fans will be sad to see it all end, many employers will secretly be rejoicing; not because they are fans of the winning team, but because they are looking forward to restoring productivity in ...
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26 March 2012 at 19 : 52 PM
Employers Forcing Job Applicants to Hand Over Facebook Passwords
What Employers Are Doing In the past few months, an increasing number of employers have been demanding access to job candidate’s social media pages as a requirement in the application process. Facebook has seen what it calls a “distressing increase” in the number of people being asked to give employers their passwords over the past few ...
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20 March 2012 at 16 : 51 PM
Why Wage & Hour Violations Could Land You in Jail
When it comes to wage and hour violations, the stakes are rising higher than ever. In three recent court cases, the government has cracked down on company owners, imposing stiff fines and even jail time for violators. Malcom et al. v. Franklin Drywall For example, in Minnesota, Phillip Franklin, the president of a sheetrock company, was sentenced ...
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6 March 2012 at 16 : 46 PM
Ignoring Harassment Could Cost You $168 Million
Think a harassment lawsuit is no big deal for your company? Think again. A physician’s assistant who put up with unwelcome sexual comments, advances, and groping by surgeons for two years- and then was fired for complaining, was recently awarded $168 million by a California jury. This huge amount, which covers $125 million in punitive damages as ...
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27 February 2012 at 20 : 27 PM
What’s Trending in HR?
The following is a short summary of this Houston Business Journal article from John W. Allen. Here’s what HR experts are talking about in 2012: • How to cope with an HR crisis. Case in point: the scandal at PennState. HR must act quickly to address situations where an employee’s misconduct threatens the reputation of the company. There ...
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20 February 2012 at 15 : 24 PM
Fighting Identity Theft in the Workplace
All too often, the news is full of stories about identity theft leaving innocent victims with wiped out bank accounts and damaged credit. Proving that identity theft has occurred is tedious, and it can take years to clean up the mess. The crime of identity theft is not something that organizations often think about as a high-risk liability. ...
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6 February 2012 at 09 : 00 AM
Houston Companies Pay the Price for Illegal Employees
When US immigration officials audited Advanced Containment Systems Inc, last year, it discovered that 44% of the company's workforce comprised of illegal immigrants. They found ID cards supposedly issued by the "Texas Department of Safety", which had misspelled words like "identification" and "department". One even said "novelty item" on the back. The ...
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16 January 2012 at 09 : 47 AM
Does Sports Culture Sweep Harassment Under the Rug?
On Dec 21, a former female employee of the Golden State Warriors filed a sexual harassment lawsuit against star player Monta Ellis, alleging that Ellis sent her unwanted text messages, including explicit photos. In the lawsuit, Erika Smith alleges she received dozens of explicit messages, sometimes several times a day, during 2010-2011, when she worked in ...
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26 December 2011 at 10 : 53 AM
Strategies to Strengthen Your HR Infrastructure: Week 5
Continuing Blog Series from G&A Partners: 5 Strategies to Strengthen your HR infrastructure. This is the last post in our five week series in which we have analyzed the different ways in which you can strengthen the human resources organization of your company. Each week, this blog has discussed one strategy in-depth. Previous posts can be found ...
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22 December 2011 at 15 : 38 PM
“Twas the Day before Christmas”
A poetic take on working through the holidays from one of our blog contributors... Twas the day before Christmas and all through the office, No workers were stirring, not even the bosses. The parties and potlucks were long since behind us. A few cookies and a fruitcake were left to remind us. So I sat at my desk wondering how it ...
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