Your former employee, the one whom you paid an extra boat load of money to sign a non-solicitation agreement, just sent a bunch of LinkedIn invites to connect with some of your current employees.
Proving that it’s not just women who are victims of sex discrimination, I’ve got news of a new EEOC lawsuit alleging that a company refused to hire a male applicant because of his sex.
Unlike yesterday’s post, this has nothing to do with Silicon Valley. Silicone, however? Maybe.
You see, that “bar” the guy walked into was a gentlemen’s club. Continue reading
In February, a female Uber employee blogging under the pseudonym Amy Vertino blew the lid off of what she alleged to be a corporate culture of misogyny and other rampant discrimination. Recently, there have been several additional high-profile stories of alleged sex discrimination and harassment at the very top of the ladder. Here’s a recent example reported on Monday.
But, allegations of sexism in the C-Suite have been around long before Uber, Fox News, and Mad Men.
So why is it now that the chickens are coming home to roost? And what can your business do to try to avoid these issues? Continue reading
Look. It’s the Friday before a four-day holiday weekend. I need all the clicks I can get.
And, somehow, I need to explain to IT how searching Google Images for “sex talk” serves a business purpose. Wait! I’ll just tell ’em it’s all for the readers. Now, if only one of you would back me up.
[insert tumbleweed]
Back in the day, landing on “Community Chest” in Monopoly was second only to building hotels on Boardwalk.
But, even with inflation, neither approaches the feeling of discovering that your employer goofed by agreeing to provide you with $2,747,400 in severance pay, rather than the previously agreed-upon $80,805.97.
Yep, that happened.
Rut roh! Continue reading
Want to weigh in on the U.S. Department of Labor‘s proposed overtime rules? Well, now you’ll get that chance.
Again. Continue reading
Yep, the signs are all there. Continue reading
An employee who lost his job for badmouthing his boss on Facebook should still collect unemployment benefits, according to the Rhode Island Supreme Court.
Ain’t that a wicked pissah.
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