Legal

When are Preliminary and Postliminary Compensable? Supremes to let us Know (Maybe).

There are lots of preliminary of postliminary activities that could be occurring in you...

Workforce News

Staffing Management

One Size Does Not Fit All: A Parable About Equity

I’m on planes a lot for business. Recently, on a full Southwest flight, I ended up in t...

Legal

Mind Your Internal Emails to Avoid Discrimination Issues

If you don’t want something to appear on the front page of the newspaper, or to be read...

Staffing Management

Can Low-Potential Workers Become High-Potentials?

I’m wondering about strategies to turn low-potential employees into high potentials. Ho...

Legal

NLRB: No Such Thing as an Online Picket Line

This decision displays a fundamental misunderstanding about social media. Nothing about...

Legal

Can You Have a One-Person Reduction-in-Force?

It does not make a difference if the layoff includes one employee or 100 employees, pro...

Benefits

A Proposed Solution for the EEOC’s Position on Retaliation in Severance Agreements

Don’t shred your settlement and severance agreements just yet. Modify your agreements t...

Training

How Do I Show Training Impact?

I am searching for examples of measures that can show the “mission impact” of training ...