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3 Common Mistakes That Can Get You Sued, According to an Employment Attorney
A company fired someone for too many absences and found itself in trouble with the EEOC. Your new business is a success and you've hired your first employees. As you juggle growing responsibilities with new hires, you may be tempted to leave things like employment policies and procedures until...
Full-Time Office Work is ‘Dead’: 3 Labor Experts Weigh in on the Future of Remote Work
The pandemic-era trend of working from home remains a key feature of the U.S. job market — and is likely to stay entrenched as a permanent perk for a broad swath of the American workforce, according to labor economists. The pre-pandemic baseline of going into an office five days a week “is dead”...
No More Mr. Nice Boss: Flexible Employers Were a Pandemic Blip
Were a space alien to have visited the U.S. in late 2020, it might have gotten a very skewed idea about the employee-employer relationship in the world of corporate America. Companies were sending their white collar workers money to buy desks and chairs for their work-from-home offices, and gift...
Amazon Employees Express Dismay, Anger About Sudden Return-To-Office Policy
Amazon employees on Tuesday continued to sound off about CEO Andy Jassy’s recently announced return-to-office mandate, including spamming an internal website with messages conveying their opposition to the new policy. Amazon tech workers created a Slack channel and drafted an internal petition...
9th Cir. Holds TCPA Autodialer Must Generate and Dial Random or Sequential Phone Numbers
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed the trial court’s dismissal of a putative class action suit brought under the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act because another panel of the Ninth Circuit had previously held that an autodialer must generate and dial random...
District Court Rules Against CFPB Authority in ECOA Case
The court approved a non-bank mortgage lender’s motion to dismiss a CFPB complaint on the grounds the bureau’s interpretation of how the statute applies in credit decisions; another example of legal pushback against the bureau’s actions. A district court has dismissed an enforcement action from...
Better Communication Can Keep Employees from Leaving. Here’s How.
Career change, promotion, pay, going back to school, and family circumstances are some of the reasons employees voluntarily leave organizations. The Great Resignation continued last year, although at a slower pace than in 2021. About 4 million people quit their jobs in October 2022, the most...
How to Promote a Culture of Connection in the Ever-Changing Workplace
The importance of fostering connections in the workforce has never been more prevalent than this past year. From the recent trends of quiet quitting to flexible work environments after COVID to mental health care incentives, employees have demanded more from their workplace and human resource...
Surge of Swatting Attacks Targets Corporate Executives and Board Members
Swatters use data brokers and stolen information on the dark web to target C-suite and board members. Removing personal information from the web is the best way to minimize this risk. At around 8:45 pm on February 1, 2023, a caller to the Groveland, Massachusetts, 911 emergency...