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Missed Call Mania—Understanding Gen Z’s TelephonophobiaGen Z’s fear of talking on the phone is nothing new but it has persisted despite their growth into working adults. This makes employers worry if...
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Lamenting Layoffs—Microsoft’s Job Cuts Continue in 2024The Microsoft HoloLens layoffs will affect around 1,000 employees while layoffs at the Azure team will affect hundreds of additional employees at...
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Quit or Don’t, There’s No Escaping Return-to-Office TrendsReturn-to-office policies in 2025 are all set to grow in number as more employers narrow their sights down on ensuring employees work from the...
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Management Matters—How to Avoid Micromanaging at WorkAnyone can fall prey to micromanagement tendencies but managers need to trust that employees understand their role. Creating space for employees...
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Discrimination at Decatur—Caterpillar Hiring Case SettledThe Caterpillar-DOL racial case has resulted in a $800K settlement after the manufacturing company was accused of racial discrimination against...
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Addressing the Manager Performance Feedback Void in WorkplaceManagers may be playing an important role in employee experience, but while managers have a significant impact on the employee experience, they...
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Kroger Workers at Detroit Fulfillment Center Unionize with TeamstersKroger, the automated warehouse near Detroit’s workers came together to vote to join the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Kroger workers...
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Kroger’s CEO Takes a Pay Cut—Salary Falls to $15.7 MillionCEO Rodney McMullen was left with a pay cut after his bonus fell from $4.1 million USD in 2022 to $673,000 in 2023. The company’s annual...
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Indeed Announces Layoff of about 8% Workforce for RestructuringIndeed Inc. is planning to layoff about 1,000 employees on Monday, or roughly 8% of its workforce. This is Indeed, the job-search website’s second...
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NLRB’s Civility Policy Decision Stumps StarbucksStarbucks’ civility policy led to an employee being fired for “yelling” but the policy was found to be overly broad. The case concluded that the...
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The Secret to Being a Good Mentor Lies in the Intent to HelpLearning how to mentor correctly can feel like quite a task but there are many ways to work with the mentee to discover what wisdom you have to...
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A company reportedly shut down its business rather than go union. Wait, can it do that?!?TL;DR: Yes. But I’ll explain to you why it’s probably not illegal. First, here’s what happened. According to...
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Even some judges mistake how easy it is for an employee to claim age discriminationLast month , I explained how easy it is for an employee to plead a discrimination claim under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act ....
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How did this employer terminate an employee while on FMLA without violating the law?Employers cannot interfere with employee rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act . However, the FMLA doesn’t exonerate employee...
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Don’t use THIS FONT in your legal briefs (or anywhere else probably).This one is a bit of a total stretch. It’s about an employment law-adjacent lawsuit. The owner of a limited liability company...
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Is it worse to smoke a cigarette in a tanker truck carrying highly flammable substances or drive it recklessly?A federal appellate court recently breathed new life into the discrimination claims of a tanker driver alleging that his race motivated his...
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There’s no bright-line rule or magic words needed for employees to request workplace accommodations.See what you think of this. An employee who recently returned from breast cancer surgery complains to her manager that her job “was...
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An employer that refuses to accommodate an employee’s disability can still win an ADA lawsuit. Here’s how.The Americans with Disabilities Act requires employers to make reasonable accommodations for a qualified individual with a disability unless...
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Here’s why the FTC thinks its non-compete rule will survive a legal challengeLast week, the Federal Trade Commission responded to efforts by a Texas business and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to convince a Texas...
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Got an age discrimination claim? It’s not that hard to plead one in court.A plaintiff claiming age discrimination at work must ultimately prove, by a preponderance of the evidence, that age was the...
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The world’s largest HR organization does NOT support the FTC’s non-compete ruleThe Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) , with nearly 340,000 members in 180 countries (of which I am one), filed an amicus brief...
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Today’s letter of the day is “P,” as in “Pretext”In employment discrimination cases where a defendant-employer articulates a legitimate, nondiscriminatory reason for the employment action,...
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Did this company retaliate or simply exercise its First Amendment right (to BLAST its employee on Facebook)?“An employer’s free speech right to comment upon matters that affect the business is firmly established,” noted a Vermont...
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Various employer associations have sued to block the DOL’s new overtime ruleYesterday, several employer groups and associations filed a federal lawsuit in the same court that, in 2017, stymied the U.S. Department of...
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If your company handles military leave for employees this way, you may be doing it all WRONGYesterday, a federal appellate court issued a precedential opinion clarifying when employers must pay employees and provide certain benefits...
