Strio Consulting’s chief people officer, Robin Schooling, still remembers the one that got away. It happened in 2005, while she was working as a recruiter in the hospitality industry. She [...]
No one likes to get spooked … especially an employer that is being haunted by “ghost” employees, who can bleed an organization of thousands—or even millions—of dollars.
A supervisor’s comment that older workers were harder to train did not show that the company fired an older pharmaceutical representative due to age discrimination, the 9th U.S. Circuit [...]
A rejected applicant who did not meet all of the minimum qualifications of the position for which he applied failed to establish a prima-facie case of discrimination under the Americans with [...]
White-collar employees subject to the salary-basis test under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are exempt employees who, in general, must be paid their full salary for any week in which they [...]
As the youngest Americans take on their first positions, helicopter parenting is entering the workplace in full force. Mom and Dad are not just calling to ask the status of applications or sit in [...]
The employment relationship doesn’t always end on a positive note. So what should employers say during a reference check? Can they say that someone was fired, frequently late or a poor [...]
Employers will incur expenses as soon as a worker files a claim. That’s why the best way to win a lawsuit is to avoid it altogether—and HR professionals can help by ensuring the [...]
A black employee who was called offensive nicknames by supervisors and colleagues and who was fired for smoking in barred areas had a valid discrimination claim that could go to trial, the U.S. [...]
People who abuse the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) do so for a variety of off-the-wall reasons: to serve a jail sentence, attend a criminal court hearing, travel to exotic locations, go [...]
