Earlier this year, Colorado joined a growing list of states that have banned natural hair discrimination. Colorado’s CROWN Act (Creating a Respectful and Open World for Natural Hair Act) went
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NLRB Strikes Down Ambiguous and Overbroad Workplace Rules
Bill Egan writes:
The NLRB has added to its rapidly expanding body of work addressing the permissible scope of workplace rules under National Labor Relations Act. In the related cases
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Potential Liability From Your Long Forgotten Vacation/PTO Policy
Often employers will neglect or overlook revising their vacation and/or paid time off (PTO) policies, which are buried in the employee handbook that was last revised a half-dozen years ago.
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Wacky Cases For Christmas
This Christmas we wrote about a couple of wacky cases. We got some good comments.
Merry Christmas!
“Fun-Slapping” Case
On December 22nd we wrote about a New Zealand
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Employee Handbooks: An Employer’s First Line Of Defense
We have been touting the value of handbooks for years. See our two-part “Top Ten Essential Components Of An Employee Handbook,” posted on July 15, 2010 and August
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Does Size Matter? Is Small Better? (Ten Workplace Tips For Growing Companies)
Hrmagazine.co.uk has reported an interesting survey made by a UK employment law firm which analyzed the size of companies and the number of employees reporting discrimination issues.
It seems that
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Ten Tips To Keep Your Workplace Clean As A Whistle
Having taken a long weekend off, the writer has reached into his “Best Hits” collection to repurpose (i.e., copy almost verbatim) the following golden oldie.
Everyone loves lists.
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“Ten Best Tips” — Readers Supply A Few More
Our post of April 9th set out what we called our “Ten Best Tips To Stay One Step Ahead Of The EEOC.” Readers supplied a couple more tips:
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Ten Best Tips To Stay One Step Ahead Of The EEOC
We have always preached preventive law, that is, using our knowledge of employment law and HR practices to counsel employers how to prevent claims, charges or lawsuits from ever happening.
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The “N-Word” And Nooses: “You People Are Too Sensitive” Claims Supervisor
The EEOC has just announced that “In the past two months, the EEOC has had several cases involving severe racial harassment, including a $2.7 million settlement against an environmental clean-up
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