HR pros have seen plenty of news stories about giant corporations that are passing along the savings from the new tax law to their employees. But until now, it’s been tough to get a picture of just how many employers, percentage wise, are actually going...
Comcast insists that is supporting a freer internet by calling for net neutrality, which is like saying that a wolf insists that it is supporting faster sheep by calling for ankle weights to be attached to the sheep. Still, people believe them. Well, they also believed...
The news is everywhere. Sound the trumpets, toll the bells, the President, Donald J. Trump, has brought an end to one of the longest nightmares seen in this country. Start from the beginning. In 2007 Sholom Rubashkin was raided at his meat processing plant in Postville, Iowa....
Sure enough, once the tax cuts were passed, huge bonuses were handed down by the evil corporations and companies, who were sure to hoard it all for themselves, as the Democrat doomsday seers and apocalypse prophets had foretold. Actually, they had foretold that the evil corporate...
After the healthcare monstrosity known as Obamacare was passed, the vast majority of employers in the country were forced to slash hours so as to avoid going bankrupt. This is how most of the country managed to avoid seeing prices skyrocket, because the companies took steps to...
Normally, a war against the feds would be waged by Chicago mobsters during the 1920’s and early 30’s. Now, however, mankind’s search for meaning has polarized it,with one half of humanity believing in God, and the other half believing in government. The half that believes in...
This dynamic created a backlash that eventually convinced the Obama administration to tell the IRS (quietly, of course) to lay off on the penalties, effectively removing the teeth that were scaring employers into slashing worker counts and hours. Publicly, they announced that they would be...
So, there has been a cultural earthquake. Harvey Weinstein is a molester. Who knew? Well, I did. And I live in New York, and honestly don’t care about Hollywood. The most I know about Hollywood is the occasional headline from the ‘entertainment’ sidebar on webpages....
The argument has been made that individuals can’t make decisions, that people don’t know what they are looking at when they look at a form for healthcare programs that let them choose what they want. Nonsense. People can easily gather information that they need and make decisions about...
Hiring a weasel is generally a bad idea. There are exceptions, but not many. So, this happened. Matthew Donlin was a general manager for Petco who took FMLA leave in February 2016 for a medical condition that led to occasional flare-ups. By May of 2016, Donlin’s doctor...
An announcement by the USCIS has let the surprisingly rapid output of all new scam targeting employers. Shortly after the feds announced that they would be ramping up I-9 audits, a rash of fraudulent emails began to appear in the inboxes of various companies. Well designed and...
When everything is sexual harassment, nothing is A tremendous explosion has erupted in the media and entertainment sphere, an explosion of revelations about bad behavior by high power individuals, both male and female (bust mostly male). None of it is surprise really, except the reactions. Since when did any of...
