Your employer can ask you to give up many things in exchange for employment. For instance, they can require you to sign a non-compete agreement, work a specific schedule, and consent to all sorts of confidentiality agreements. But what it can’t do is force you to give up
Dear Evil HR Lady, The company I work for, like many high-tech IT companies, has a guy who is very skilled and inventive but who behaves like a madman. He insults embarrasses, and abuses fellow staff — to the extent that some of them get depressed and cry.
Dear Evil HR Lady, I am an HR manager with a multinational corporation. Yesterday I received information about two employees having sex in the bathroom. Several staff members observed them, and apparently this is not the first episode — just the first time I’ve been informed. At what
Dear Evil HR Lady, In my last temporary assignment, we were required not to work above 40 hours, but our assignment company made it difficult to complete the increasing workload within that time period. I arrived early as a courtesy, although we were told not to work above
Find out what protections temporary workers are entitled to by clicking here: Do temporary employees have rights?
“Oops, I quit my job.” Katherine Stevensen’s Facebook status casually proclaimed that she had made a potentially life-changing decision. For one thing, she had no new job lined up. I wanted to know why. To keep reading click here: Why I left my job without a new one
Anyone who blogs, tweets, or otherwise expresses themselves online should keep this policy in mind for using social media. To keep reading click here: Use social media? Memorize these vital 12 words
Instead of flowers, find out what working moms really want. Click here: What moms really want on the job
Dear Evil HR Lady, Our company recently implemented a policy that has quite a few people perturbed, myself included. If an employee is late for any reason what-so-ever; traffic, weather, sick kid; the employee is forced to use their PTO time. We have for YEARS had the option
Is it your fault your resume stinks or the recruiter’s fault for being too dumb to understand it? To read more click here: Resume problem: Is it your fault?
