Managers dread giving performance reviews and often don’t like to handle issues about employee behavior. Employees dread getting performance reviews and hate it when their manager disciplines them. When you mess up either an appraisal or some form of discipline, it’s more than just uncomfortable; it’s a lawsuit waiting to
To be clear, you can fire someone who solicits prostitutes while on the clock. That certainly falls under gross misconduct, and you’re free to terminate this person. So, why did the Third Circuit Court of Appeals rule in favor of a man who (allegedly) did just that? One
Your job candidates are lying on their resumes and in their job interviews. According to a new survey from Flexjobs, 33 percent of job candidates admit to lying on a resume or cover letter. Furthermore, 19 percent said “they’ve faked enthusiasm or pretended to be passionate about a
For those of you who are part of the Improve Your HR Facebook group you probably already know our moderator, Marie Lobbezoo. What you may not know is that Marie took a big chance and took a job in Antarctica! She shared this amazing DisruptHR talk about here
Over 10,000 companies use Workday as their applicant tracking system to help find qualified candidates. If you’ve applied for jobs in the past few years, you’ve undoubtedly had to fill out a Workday application. A lawsuit originally filed in 2023 claims that Workday illegally rejects older applicants. And
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Henrietta (name has been changed) worked for Big Company for several years. Then she had a baby and quit working to stay home. Her boss valued Henrietta’s skills and begged her to come back. Henrietta agreed, provided that she could work remotely. Her boss agreed. After salary negotiations,
President Donald Trump fired the Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Dr. Erika McEntarfer, stating, without evidence, that she falsified job numbers to assist Vice President Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. Trump then accused her of rigging the numbers this summer, as revisions included a drop of 258,000
AI should be the best employee, not subject to FLSA, you have. Making it work overtime? No problem. Asking it to deep research and then you go to lunch while it works? Amazing. Telling it it’s an absolute idiot for what it did wrong? Well, you may need
A summer law intern at the white-shoe firm Sidley Austin got fired for biting other people. It’s weird enough that she bit someone, but apparently, she bit at least five people and possibly others. She shouldn’t have bitten anyone, and she should have been disciplined and told, in no
