Watch for Employers Using Benefits as Bargaining Chips
“It’s never a bad idea to be suspicious of your boss, especially when they act like they’re doing you a favor.”
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10 FAQs on the Legality of Monitoring Employees
This blog explains how and why employee rights should be protected, by answering the top 10 FAQs on the legalities of the monitoring process.
Why It’s Important To Have an Employee-First Mindset with Business Decisions
Putting employees first in business decision-making is integral to the stability and longevity of a
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‘Yet another major, ideologically driven last-minute rule change’ from Team Trump
Donald Trump began his time in the White House by dismantling as many Obama-era regulations and rules as he could—ones that protected workers, or the environment, or consumers. Now he’s ending his time in the White House by rushing to lock in as many avenues for discrimination and pollution as possible. The Labor Department has just finalized …
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How to Help Your Employees Become More Productive
Has your productivity been lagging? Are you struggling to find ways to inspire yourself to work harder for you? Are you inspired by your boss? Perhaps you are trying the wrong tactics. Instead of focusing on what your employer can do for you, why don’t you consider what you can do to improve your life …
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These corporations have declared war on Thanksgiving
For the last decade or so, dozens of the world’s largest retailers have shifted the unofficial start date of the holiday shopping season one day forward, from Black Friday — so named because it’s the busiest shopping day of the year and pushes retailers’ bottom lines into the black — to Thanksgiving Day. So instead …
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Supreme Court opens its new term with a direct attack on workers’ rights
The Supreme Court returns next Monday from its summer vacation for the first full term where Neil Gorsuch will occupy a seat at the far end of the Court’s bench. And the Court will open this term with a trio of cases that are very likely to immunize many employers from consequences for their illegal …
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Sexual harassment of graduate students by faculty is a national problem
University of Wisconsin-Madison’s anonymous complaints of sexual harassment often rest on “institutional memory” and there is no actual requirement in place to document them, according to the Wisconsin State Journal. There are two channels for sexual harassment reports at the university. Students and employees can file formal complaints, which results in an investigation by the …
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The Trump administration is quietly making it easier to abuse seniors in nursing homes
The Trump administration is poised to undo rules issued by the Obama administration last year to protect seniors from a common tactic used by businesses to shield themselves from consequences for illegal conduct. Under these rules, issued last September, Medicare and Medicaid would cut off payments to nursing homes that require new residents to sign forced arbitration agreements, …
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Why the Sharing Economy is Hurting the Economy – and What Must Be Done
In this holiday season it’s especially appropriate to acknowledge how many Americans don’t have steady work. The so-called “share economy” includes independent contractors, temporary workers, the self-employed, part-timers, freelancers, and free agents. Most file 1099s rather than W2s, for tax purposes. It’s estimated that in five years over 40 percent of the American labor force …
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