The Los Angeles Times is on the hook for a $15.4 million jury award for demoting an older worker. Former LA Times sports columnist T.J. Simers sued the paper in October 2013 after the paper first reduced and then eliminated his column. The paper argued that...
Any HR pro would raise an eyebrow reading the broad outline of this FMLA abuse investigation. An employee schedules a knee surgery, then postpones that procedure to have a different operation is done to remove a tumor on his foot. While he’s out on FMLA leave,...
Both the organizations and employers, starting from big corporates to small companies, all know the importance of hiring a perfect employee to keep the working environment healthy and safe. It can be in terms of both physically and mentally. If you recruit one bad employee,...
The Creative Group has published its 2018 Salary Guide, which offers info on trends, starting salaries and benefits, which will help you get a sense of where you stand. Here’s a look at the report’s take on current compensation practices. See how your comp plan stacks up: 1. it’s...
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. are sticking with forecasts for the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates five more times by the end of 2019 even as financial markets shudder. In reports released in the past 24 hours as the Standard & Poor’s 500...
With the holidays just around the corner, it’s time let people know that you are human, too. If you’d like to know how that ordinarily looks, here are some examples. Use them at your own risk. “Hi there! Hate to break it to you, but I’m onsite...
Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and his colleagues are likely to turn more wary about marching interest rates higher after delivering a widely anticipated quarter percentage-point increase in December. Prospects for slowing global economic growth, fading U.S. fiscal stimulus and volatile financial markets all argue for more caution once...
You probably realize how powerful your words can be when you’re praising someone for a job well done. By recognizing that person at just the right time with just the right words, you can impact that person – and your company – in a highly valuable way,...
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued two final rules Nov. 7 that exempt certain entities from the Affordable Care Act's (ACA's) contraceptive mandate if their opposition is based on religious or moral grounds. The rules are likely to be challenged in court, as have...
Hasbro, the game and toy company, has created a game that is sure to get on the toys, er, toes, of pathetic man children around the country. The iconic board game Monopoly has a whole bunch of iterations and themes, but Hasbro has outdone itself this time by...
Noel Cintron was Trump’s personal driver for more than 25 years. And while he was paid an annual salary of $75,000, Cintron now claims he was incorrectly classified as an exempt employee, and should be paid for roughly 3,300 hours of overtime. As Trump’s driver, Cintron was on...
HR pros know it better than anyone: Courts are always issuing conflicting employment law opinions, which can make compliance an uphill battle. In Stephens v. R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, the Sixth Circuit said discriminating against a worker because they’re transgender is sex discrimination. When Stephens...
