March 23, 2012
Sam Levenson had famously said ‘Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped.’ It appears that some employers are applying this advice to their pregnant employees’ tenure with them and getting into legal wrangles by demoting the women or firing themRead full story…
March 23, 2012
Most employers who face the combined onslaught of evolving technologies and regulations of today feel that they are caught between Scylla and Charybdis when adopting innovative work practices. What makes even the hardiest of them blanch is the combination of these two present, giving rise to claims for compensation for after hours work to non-exemptRead full story…
March 22, 2012
Till recently, HR analysts were busy exploring the exciting opportunities offered by innovative technological developments and the flexibility offered contingent workers. Their enterprise led to crowdsourcing and telework assisted by social media and other equally heady developments. Workforces today have gone mobile, remote and flexible with no offices other than their laptops, tablets and mobileRead full story…
March 20, 2012
What would you do as an employer, when a hitherto valued employee suddenly manifests a personality change and turns querulous instead of garrulous? Customer-facing employees could wreak havoc on the prospects of a business with such mood swings. In today’s fast-paced corporate world, it is difficult for result-oriented employers to adjust to such performance changesRead full story…
March 8, 2012
The final verdict in the recent lawsuit Port Elevator Brownsville v. Casados has excited a lot of thought and consideration. In this case, an accident at the workplace resulted in the death of the worker, and the worker’s family received benefits under the staffing provider’s policy but went on to sue Port Elevator. The awardRead full story…