Labor & Employment

A Bad Idea That Won’t Go Way

How did it get so popular? What were they thinking? Why doesn’t it disappear?

Stricter Worker Privacy Regulations Trending In 2014

New laws going into effect in 2014 suggest two major accelerating trends in workplace privacy: Legislators and enforcement agencies will […]

Europe’s Army Of The Unemployed

More than 26 million people are officially listed as unemployed in the Eurozone, which equates to an unemployment rate of […]

Resistance To The Anti-Disparagement Termination Deal

Many settlement agreements with fired employees contain clauses meant to prevent ex-workers from disparaging their former companies or bosses. But […]

Study: Workplace Wellness Programs Oversold

A Rand Corporation study of one company’s wellness programs found mixed results when it measured a purported benefit of such […]

Hot Stock: Attractive CEOs See Higher Assigned Share Values

A University of Wisconsin study found that a good-looking CEO has real and immediate benefits for a company: Attractive CEOs […]

NLRB Won’t Push Union Poster Rule

Businesses are claiming an important victory in a case many see as decisive in their effort to curtail burdensome workplace […]

Legal Pot In Colorado Doesn’t Inhibit Employer Drug Testing

Employers in pot-friendly Colorado may keep their drug policies and testing requirements, and they can still dismiss employees whose performance […]

Employer’s No-Gossip Policy Nixed By NLRB

A for-profit technical school established a no-gossip policy that, among other things, gave it the right to fire employees who […]

Boeing, Union, Agree To Terms For 777X Project

Washington state will be home to Boeing’s decade-long, 20,000-job project building a new composite wing and assembling  the company’s 777X […]

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