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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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
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
Imagine this: A company tells some of its former employees, “We put too much in your severance check. Please give the extra amount back.”
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In this tough economy, it’s hardly unusual for people to look for second jobs to make ends meet. Example: A teacher advertised online that she was looking for extra work because her bills were piling up. Unfortunately, her ad was on the “casual encounters” section of a popular Web site. And her school computer was involved.
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Tags: Craigslist, prostitution, second job, teacher, tough economy
Few companies these days can afford unproductive employees. What would happen if HR found an employee who sat in his office all day doing nothing and got paid a full-time salary?
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Tags: lawsuit, Native American, paid for doing nothing, unproductive employees
When twice the usual number of employees call out sick — and it happens on Super Bowl Sunday — is it a case of couch potato fever? Or, as union representatives suggested in one case, was it burnout because of staff cutbacks? You make the call.
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Tags: burnout, cutbacks, furloughs, overtime, sickout, Super Bowl
A high school girls’ basketball coach was fired after he said he would not apologize for badly beating another team.
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Tags: fired, girls basketball, too successful
Calling it an act of mercy, an employer has decided to allow a warehouse worker to collect his pension despite the fact that he stole on the job.
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Tags: medical benefits, pension, stealing
Why are employees reluctant to speak up about improprieties where they work? Retaliation is feared, as a municipal employee in Florida is claiming in a lawsuit.
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Tags: lawsuit, retaliation, whistle-blower
