News, Insight & Opinion
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Why Companies Should Take High Employee Turnover Seriously (and Why They Don't)
Employee satisfaction is a key component for good customer service. If you accept this as being a true statement, why are there so many companies and industries that fail to curb high employee turnover? Consider the ways this practice hurts businesses...By September 24, 2011
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Are Non-Compete Agreements a Thing of the Past? You Tell Me
Do you force new employees to sign non-compete agreements so they can’t steal a secret recipe, design or what you feel is yours and yours alone? If so, these are not so popular among top job seekers so you may want to reconsider the practice...By August 30, 2011
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Are You Getting Ready for Obamacare Implementation or Praying for a Repeal?
Whether you are a small business owner or a manager of a mega-corporation, the impeding implementation of Obamacare carries grave consequences for your bottom line. Are companies taking steps to prepare for this implementation or playing the odds?...By August 27, 2011
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Lost an Employee Lawsuit? Join the Club
I’ll sue you and win! This is such a common statement business owners and HR managers hear all the time. These unnecessary lawsuits are happening more and more and if you just lost one, I’ll tell you what you did wrong and how to prepare...By August 15, 2011
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The WTC Cross, Your HR Policies and the First Amendment
Our nation's 9/11 Memorial and Museum is nearing completion--it will open in 2012. A section of beam resembling a Christian cross has been moved to the museum's site. Atheists who find it repugnant and offensive have filed a lawsuit against...By August 12, 2011
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The Lazy American: Free Handouts Are Better Than Working Right?
Most likely, my opinion here will make some angry, but what I hope it also does is make people wonder and question the work ethic in the United States and what happened to it. Today’s worker doesn’t want to work a full eight hour day but expects...By June 28, 2011
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Hiring Problems in the Ten Worst Places to Work
This writer takes a turn griping about the lists of bad places to work that are put out regularly by Forbes.com. It's bad enough living in one of them; hiring good employees when jobs are scarce poses a unique set of problems.By June 27, 2011
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Can Female Wal-Mart Workers Stand By Their Man and Win? Probably Not
Lawyers across America just love those class action lawsuits but where did the Wal-Mart discrimination lawsuit against women go wrong? America’s top judges said, no can do (or hear), but saying no to attorneys in labor law cases doesn’t...By June 27, 2011
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More Jobs for Americans? We’ll See, Department of Commerce Is Hopeful
On June 15, 2011, President Obama announced a new program to lower unemployment, attract new businesses and keep entrepreneurs alive in the U.S. would become law—yep, law. Overseers will be the Department of Commerce. With unemployment at nine percent...By June 23, 2011