Honestly, I was ready to call in sick and use “Bunkered in for the Apocalypse” as my excuse. I had no other explanation after Nick Foles passed for seven touchdowns yesterday. Seriously, weren’t you at least a bit concerned? Yep, CareerBuilder’s annual list of “Most Outrageous Excuses Workers Have Given When Calling…
What else did you expect? (Haters can unsubscribe) As for the rest of you, considering that I’ve been serving up one of the best employment law blogs every weekday for the past two-plus years, isn’t some Red Sox World Series swag for your guy a fair exchange? (The…
Welcome everyone to the latest edition of the Employment Law Blog Carnival. What Target and Wal-Mart are to back-to-school shopping, this is your one-stop-shop for the hottest trends in employment law. Your original carnival hosts for this month, my good pal Ari Rosenstein and the great folks at CPEhr.com asked…
This is the story of a longshoreman who, on January 8, 2006, drank two beers before going to work at 8:00 a.m. Between 8:00 a.m. and 12:00 p.m., he knocked back another three cold ones. At lunch, he washed down his liquid breakfast and snack with another four to five…
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=odY8nff3h0w Yes, quarter. Seriously, how pissed off do you need to be to pay out $150,000 of a court-ordered settlement in quarters? Jacob Gershman of The Wall Street Journal‘s Law Blog, writes here that a retired surgeon had a unique way of expressing his displeasure with having to pay out…
We are less than a week from the start of the SHRM Annual Conference & Exposition, which kicks off in Chicago on Sunday, June 16. I will roll into town on Monday. My plan is to hit the House of Blues that night for The Official #SHRM13 TweetUp & Afterparty.…
Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s Pam Johnson. Pam is an HR professional who obtained her degree from what she tells me is one of the Top 10 Best Online Masters in HR Degree Programs. (Want to guest blog at The Employer Handbook? Email me).…
Just another Friday here at the ole Handbook. Oh, get your head out of the gutter! This is a family blog. (Y’all have families, right?) For serious, today’s lede isn’t just gratuitous, there is an employment-law connection here. *** searching … searching … searching *** Ok, got it! Back in…
In the aftermath of yesterday’s tragic events, President Obama remarked, “Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people.” If you want to help them, here and here are some ways to do it.
Yesterday, CareerBuilder.com released its list of 15 of the most unusual things that bosses have asked employees to do. I’ve had a lot of rough, odd jobs in my lifetime — *** Hey silver spoon! Quit giving me the stink eye over there. If I write it, my readers believe…