It’s funny. (Not “ha ha!” funny. Just, employment-law blogger, wry-smile funny). I read different surveys about social media and hiring and the numbers vary greatly. For every survey that indicates that employers are not using social media to vet candidates, you get the one I read last night from CareerBuilder.com,…
Raise your hand if you don’t own a smartphone. According to this Pew survey, 64% of American adults own smartphones. And that’s just the adults. So, it should come as no surprise that, in the brief amount of time it takes someone to pull a phone of a pocket, bring it…
Because I’m exhausted after Wednesday’s DFW–>PHL–>Phillies, instead of a beefy post, you can have the PowerPoint and webinar I delivered last week for HR Direct entitled “The State of Hiring: How to Comply With Ban the Box and Other Hiring Laws.” Just email me and it’s yours.
Over the weekend, while enjoying my tea and krumpets twenty minutes alone in the bathroom free from four screaming kids, I read this story in U.K.’s Daily Mail about a Facebook post from a fast-food chain employee. Shortly after news hit about two police officers gettign shot and killed, she…
Ok. Let’s assume that I’m looking to fill another Blogprentice position here at the Bloggerdome. [FYI – The Blogprentice’s job is to massage my scalp during those brief periods of writer’s block or when I get the vapors, rub my feet at all other times, plus whatever tasks, reasonable or…
Sure, I could have used today’s post to address yesterday’s unanimous Supreme Court decision about EEOC conciliation efforts. But this is The Employer Handbook. It’s not like I just got the call up to the major leagues. By now, my blog game is hella-strong, yo! I troll sites like TMZ and…
I can’t blame you if last month’s decision from the National Labor Relations Board, left you asking the question: “Are there no limits to what employees can get away with on social media?” The Board decision, in case you missed it, reinstated an employee who went on Facebook and called his boss a “NASTY MOTHER…
Kinda like this, but different. According to a recent survey from CareerBuilder.com, 1 out of 5 employers failed to read my 2011 blog post about interview questions to avoid, have asked a question in a job interview only to find out later that it was illegal to ask. Indeed, the poll…
Where do I find these cases, you ask? Well, I sold my soul, and a stack of Billy Ripken baseball cards, to the devil a long time ago. I ain’t telling. But seriously, this case isn’t so much about the particular facts… White employee tosses banana peels at work Black employees complain…
The folks over at Glassdoor.com have compiled their Top Oddball Interview Questions for 2015. Except this year, there’s a twist. Glassdoor has grouped the questions by country: United States, United Kingdom, Canada, France, Germany. So, let’s put these question to the test. I’m going to take a random “oddball” question from…