Do You Know Who You’ve Hired?

There’s big trouble ahead for owners of a plant in Louisiana – not from any hurricane, but from Immigration officials.

Yawn! Are You Getting Enough Sleep?

Odds are you’re not getting the eight hours of nightly shuteye experts agree you need. Here’s why it matters – courtesy of CNNMoney.com – for you and your business.

Who’s Hurting the Worst?

The manufacturing sector was responsible for 22% of last quarter’s mass layoffs…

Interesting Age Discrimination Settlement

Hollywood writers, you would think, don’t have any edge or detriment based on their age.

So you might think…

Gender Bias Costly For Smith-Barney

Reuters reports the giant financial services firm has settled a lawsuit alleging bias against women for almost $30,000 per person, or $33-million.

Whack’m With Wisdom

This MSNBC article titled “Hitting Workers Over The Head With A Piggybank” discusses a company that made its’ employees meet one-on-one with a personal financial planner – whether they wanted to or not!

Fire Without Fear

Business 21 Publishing is offering online training for supervisors with in-depth coverage of the three secrets of supervisory survival:

• Be consistent
• Document, document, document!
• You’re a boss, not an employee.

Here’s the class info and signup.

Are You A Documentation Do-Bee?

So you think you’re safe because you document every employment action? Read this lawsuit-losing list of common errors, and see if you’re “guilty” of any of them.

Political Advocacy: Protected or Not?

The National Labor Relations Board head lawyer has released a 14-page memo on the degree of protection accorded employees who advocate political positions both on and off duty.

The brief may surprise you.

Social Security Dons Stealth Sheild

Our corrupt government has spent all the social security contributions that America’s private sector workers and employers have contributed, for the better part of 100 years, expanding the size and scope of government.

Does anybody care? Is anybody watching?

A thought-provoking article was published last week by the Christian Science Monitor.