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Ebola discrimination in your workplace, what the Department of Justice wants you to know.

If you entered a time machine a few months ago and came out today to read this post, you missed a lot. The Kansas City Royals made the World Series. Grammy Award winning rapper Eve wed entrepreneur Maximillion Cooper at Cala Jondal Beach in Ibiza, Spain. And a big-time Ebola…

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Camouflage toilet paper is so last year. The most unusual workplace gifts of 2014.

After two days of organized-labor-themed oxygen-sucking blog posts, I’m gonna lighten it up today, with some holiday co-worker gift-giving ideas for you. Taking my cue from CareerBuilder’s 2014 list of the most unusual holiday gifts exchanged in the workplace, please consider nixing these from your list: A box of Hot…

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Make a New Year’s Resolution to have union-avoidance training

Cue the haters. Following a decision last Thursday permitting employees to use company email to badmouth you and unionize, the National Labor Relations Board ended last week by passing a new rule, which, in its words, updated “its representation-case procedures to modernize and streamline the process for resolving representation disputes.”…

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NLRB: Your employees can use company email to badmouth you and unionize. Four reasons it’s no big deal.

YES, THAT’S RIGHT. NO BIG DEAL. Hey, if you’re a big employment dork like me, (vote Handbook!), you’ve already read a bunch of blog posts, and you’ll read several more about how the sky is falling after yesterday’s NLRB decision, in which the Board held that employees may use company…

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Role reversal! EEOC must disclose its own background check policy to the employer it’s suing

Monday kinda sucked for the EEOC. The agency that made scrutiny of employee background checks a top priority under its current Strategic Enforcement Plan has been ordered by a federal court to turn over its own background check policy to an employer whom it is suing for a criminal background…