If you have employees, you could face an employment lawsuit one day. It isn’t just something that “happens to other people.” Of course, the best way to avoid a lawsuit is not to break the law in the first place, but that doesn’t reduce your risk to zero. How
A few universities are cracking down not only on AI but on computers in general, and if you’re looking to hire people who can think, you should throw your support toward these schools. And then, perhaps, other schools will follow suit. It’s starting with the law schools, which makes sense,
Accountability does not fail in the moment of correction. It fails in the moments leading up to it. Accountability is often treated as a communication issue or a performance issue. Leaders are encouraged to be clearer, more direct, or more consistent in delivering expectations. Those adjustments help at
Ford fired an employee for stealing a $1.95 cookie. It was absolutely the wrong thing to do. Normally, I’m a big supporter of enforcing the small rules—after all, if you don’t enforce a rule, then the rule doesn’t exist. So, if you catch someone, on camera, stealing a cookie,
Most HR and benefits tools sound better in theory than they feel in practice. If you work in benefits, HR, payroll, compensation, recruiting, or people ops, you know when something actually makes sense for your role — and when it doesn’t. That’s the feedback companies want before they
“Fired within 3 hours of my first shift at a fast food joint” headlined a now-deleted Reddit post. The original poster went on to explain how the day went badly. They wrote: “Went there early, dressed properly for the job which was about helping with making burgers in a
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I’m the HR manager, and I report to the company president. I’ve already talked to him about the Friday 4 p.m. happy hours he hosts in the office. I told him I don’t think it’s appropriate and that it could create real liability issues — especially if someone
A Chick-fil-A franchise is being sued by the EEOC for allegedly refusing a religious accommodation for a Christian employee. Given Chick-fil-A’s reputation as a faith-based company, that’s probably the last lawsuit you’d expect to see. Chick-fil-A famously closes on Sundays, a nod back to founder S. Truett Cathy’s devout
Amanda Taub’s New York Times piece, Actually, Democracy Dies in HR, centers on the idea that it doesn’t take a whole bunch of evil people to destroy a country, but rather just a few evil leaders at the top and a whole bunch of dummies and paperwork, and voila, the end
