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Microsoft Corp. tendered an unsolicited takeover offer of $44.6 billion for Yahoo, Inc. As with any acquisition/merger, both businesses need to calm the troops by making assurance of job security. In today’s...
The White House announced that President Bush signed of the National Defense Authorization Act (H.R. 4986) which includes additional FMLA leave for military families. Section 585 (full text set forth below) of the bill...
Classification of Workers as Employees or Independent Contractors: Five Things Every HR Generalist should know.*
January 17, 2008
The Manpower Employment Blawg post on $319 Million Fine for FedEx? highlights the enormous downside of misclassifying workers. There are many motivations to classify a worker as an independent contractor rather than an...
In my previous post, I explained how a court can seize on one remark by a supervisor to infer a discriminatory motive for an employment decision. I have also commented that even a single remark, if sufficiently sever,...
The Limits of Customer Preference in Hiring and Promotion Decisions and Helping Managers Communicate with Employees
January 10, 2008
A recent federal court of appeals decision in Simple v. Walgreens Company is a case study on two important points. First, how the pressures of marketing in a competitive retail environment can overtake the limits of...