Question: “How should employment verifications be handled when an employee is
applying for credit, as well as those in which a debt collection agency
is tracking...
Question:
“My boss is promoting me to supervisor, but several co-workers are
unhappy about it. Ever since he told them, a few people have been very nasty to...
Question: “Our boss is contemplating moving to a four-day workweek to combat the
higher gas prices. However, she doesn’t plan to include the
administrative...
Question: “Due to downsizing and others leaving the company, an immature
co-worker was promoted to a low-level managerial position. Despite her
new position, she...
Q. Our company has a policy requiring employees who are leaving the company to participate in an exit interview. One of the requirements is to check that the terminated...
Q. We have a problem with the union steward in our plant. He seems to think that his primary responsibility is working for the union, and that his job is secondary. He...
Q. Our company requires employees to obtain their supervisors’ prior approval for all overtime. Our management takes the position that it does not need to pay...
If you are an Illinois employer with 15 or more employees and your application asks job-seekers to detail their criminal histories, expunged criminal records pose a...
When an employee complains about alleged discrimination or harassment by a supervisor, take a careful look at what each person says is happening. As the following case...
There's no denying that Americans are getting heavier and heavier. Statistics from the Centers for Disease Control show that, in 1996, no state had a prevalence of...
By all means, supervisors and managers should build a strong case for discharging a poorly performing employee before issuing a pink slip. However, they must make sure...
New York Con Ed employees who took an early retirement buyout have filed a class-action lawsuit alleging the deal was nothing more than a loan-shark scheme ...
