With staffing budgets shrinking, here’s a way for companies to save: Stop paying employees who no longer work for you. Sounds like an obvious strategy, but here’s one employer who could’ve used the advice.
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Tags: paycheck, payroll error, resignation
Can an employer require its employees to be clean shaven if workers wear facial hair for religious reasons? The situation gets even more complicated when workplace safety is involved.
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Is this a trend? Another company has asked potential employees to enter a contest to get a dream job.
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Tags: contest, dream job, no experience required
Here’s good news for employers: The EEOC was recently ordered to pay a company’s legal fees after the agency grossly mishandled an employee’s frivolous lawsuit.
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Tags: attorney's fees, disability, EEOC
We can all probably agree on this: Criticizing your employer on the Web is a stupid thing to do. But what should the punishment be?
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Tags: Facebook, fired, Philadelphia Eagles, suspension, warning
Is no one safe from the harsh realities of today’s economy?
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Tags: Cheers, laid off, Sam Malone
You’ve probably had to repeat this HR mantra to managers and supervisors many times: Document, document, document. Here’s yet another example of what can go wrong when documentation is missing.
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Tags: breathalyzer, fired for drinking, random drug test, reinstated
How many times have you had to change your company’s dress code to address situations that no one previously thought of? Next question: Does your company’s dress code cover hats?
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Tags: dress code, dress-up day, unprofessional
A woman has won six months’ wages as compensation after her Italian employer fired her for singing on the job, according to her union.
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Tags: fired, singing on the job, union
A public outcry has developed over a supermarket cashier in Germany who was fired for stealing 1.30 euros ($1.65) of bottle deposit money. And just like Joe the Plumber in last year’s U.S. Presidential campaign, Barbara the Cashier is figuring into Germany’s upcoming elections.
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Tags: Barbara the Cashier, fired, stealing
