Recently, my company did not hire someone primarily because she was the sister of a former employee that did not leave on good terms. Of course they tried to frame this in a different way, but the reason was obvious. Is this legal? I’ve tried to look up
My exempt coworker had vacation days pre-approved by our Manager via our computer-based “time-off” system. At the last minute, some work tasks compelled him to work on those vacation days (the company benefited from his closing a large, end-of-year sale). The computer based system we use to request
I was recently laid off from my position at a large company during a first round of lay offs. I was the only official executive person there and did a good job. I was told that they have a “tool” that the manager uses to decide who stays
I started out in law school five years ago, and I attended full-time for three semesters. The school I was at got put on probation by the ABA, and the administration panicked and kicked out a bunch of students in order to increase their chances of maintaining accreditation.
I just got home from a fabulous vacation in Sharm El Sheik, Egypt. I’d never heard of it before we moved to Europe, but it’s a very popular vacation spot. We went and it was wonderful. Plus, I learned a few things about business. Fancy isn’t always better:
I have a single employee, currently enrolled in our group health plan, who is getting married to someone who does not work with us in April. He wants to drop our health insurance group plan in favor of joining his bride’s group plan with her employer when he
I am the manager of an administrative team of seven people plus myself. Next year I am going to have to lay off one of my people for poor performance and inability to work as independently as the job requires. She’s been informed of her poor performance but
I work for a small family-run company. Upper management is all related, middle management and lower is not. The owner is a porn addict. One of my employees, “Lisa”, complained about his porn within her view on occasion and said she was offended. I tried several methods to
Find out why over at US News. Of course, after I wrote this I found out that Jack Bauer might be replaced! And PS, fellow 24 watchers, I’m totally lame and just started watching this show, so I’m only on season 2, so no spoilers past 9:00 p.m.
I am a 33 year old that has been working at the same company for 5 years. Things were going along quite smoothly until about 10 months ago. This is an involved story, and I apologize for writing an email longer than you want. I just can’t explain
