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DOL Hires 250 Cops to Hunt Labor Violations
The U.S. Department of Labor just announced it is hiring 250 investigators to look into wage-and-hour violations. Why now? And what are they looking for?
First, the answer to the “why now?” question:
It starts with a recent report titled “Broken Laws, Unprotected Workers: Violations of Employment and Labor Laws in America’s Cities.”
The report was based on face-to-face interviews with about 4,000 workers in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago. It was published by the Center for Urban Economic Development at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the National Employment Law Project and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.
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Parent as a Manager
If you’re a parent, you may think you have to keep your work life and family life separate. Some women (and men) view parenthood as a career liability. One high-level executive thought so until motherhood opened her eyes.
“An employee at work started being disruptive because he was angry over a change. I jokingly told my boss, ‘Oh, he’s just throwing a tantrum. When my kids do that, I take them out of the environment and talk quietly to them until they’ve calmed down. Hey! Maybe you should try that.”
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You Must Be Diligent About Accommodating Disabilities—Every Single Day
A California court recently ruled that an employer's failure to accommodate an employee's disability on one single day, even though the employee had been appropriately accommodated for months before that, can still result in employer liability.
The employer dropped the ball, the court said, by failing to notify all managers of the employee's accommodation needs.
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10 Management Blunders that Drive Away Job Applicants
Interview etiquette is a two-way street — candidates and interviewers both have to make a good impression.
Unfortunately, hiring managers — especially those with little interviewing experience — often do things or ask questions that will make candidates think twice about accepting an offer.
Here are the top 10 interviewer behaviors candidates hate, according to the report “Are You Failing the Interview?”, published recently by Development Dimensions International:
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Prevent Swine Flu - Good Advice
No one wants to work around people who are sick, especial during flu season. But how many of your company’s employees would stay home if they weren’t feeling well?
In a recent survey by Mansfield Communications, 91% of employees (not surprisingly) said flu-ridden co-workers should stay home.
But most of them aren’t listening. According to the survey of more than 2,000 Americans:
• 84% said the recession creates more pressure to show up to work, even if they’re sick, and
• 47% said they’d still engage in public activities like riding the bus and going to the grocery store, even if they had swine flu.
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