Human Resources

Gender Bias Suit Hits Employment Firm Ogletree

January 19, 2018

Ogletree Deakins, one of the nation’s largest labor and employment firms, has been sued for gender discrimination in a class […]

Rampant Age Bias Alleged In Targeted Facebook Job Ads

December 29, 2017

The advertising strategy called microtargeting has been refined to razor sharp precision by Facebook, which collects extensive data on its […]

Fear Of Sex Transgressions Is Bridling Holiday Parties

December 20, 2017

What a difference a year makes. A survey released in November by executive outplacement firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas finds […]

Getting Real With Sexual Harassment Training

December 19, 2017

Two Supreme Court decisions gave many legal departments the idea that if you cover the base with something you can tell a court was “sexual harassment  training,” you might get off the liability hook…

The Cybersecurity Threat From Terminated Employees

December 5, 2017

A manageable problem, but one that requires concerted and ongoing effort to manage. Among the recommendations: Carefully log…

If An Employee Claims Sexual Harassment, Whose Interest Does HR Represent?

October 19, 2017

Revelations about film mogul Harvey Weinstein, and with it a growing awareness that sexual harassment may be deeply ingrained in […]

Is Diversity Really A “Win-Win”?

October 11, 2017

New Yorker writer Kelefa Sanneh examines the evolution of the concept “diversity” and how it has been applied to institutions […]

Understanding The New Laws On Pay Equity

October 6, 2017

California led the way in pay equity legislation with its Fair Pay Act in 2015, and since then other states, […]

New Laws Complicate Employee Marijuana Use Rules

October 4, 2017

While the first wave of medical marijuana laws beginning in 1996 generally left intact the rights of employers to prohibit […]

Attorney, 107, Still Comes To Work

August 25, 2017

James Bass (Harvard Law, ‘34) comes to work daily at the Nashville law firm co-founded by his father in 1922. […]

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