Perhaps you attend some Human Resources conferences each year, or your company encourages employees to attend other meetings for professionals. Well, here’s an annual gathering for a very specialized — and special — job.
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Tags: conferences, professional meetings, Santa
Everyone’s a critic when HR attempts to institute dress codes. Well, the reviews are in for new robes that Britain’s top judges will soon be wearing, and they’re not all good.
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Tags: dress code, judges, robes
Imagine this: You tell an employee to comply with your company’s grooming standards only to find the local bar association has rallied to his defense.
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Tags: bar association, grooming, moustache
A fireman in Scotland has been fired after 22 years of duty. His superiors say he’s now too fat to carry out his job.
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It was buried at the bottom of a help wanted ad for air traffic controllers: “If you require this document in an alternative language, in larger text, Braille, easy read or in an audio format, please contact the Community Relations Officer.”
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Tags: Braille, equal opportunity, help wanted
For just a moment, think about how kids choose what they want to be when they grow up. Often, they don’t really understand what’s involved in the job.
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Tags: Britain, councillor, taxes
Employees are usually expected to conform to dress codes without incentives to do so.
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Tags: cleaner, credentials, dress code
Is it difficult to get workers’ attention during March Madness, or maybe during fantasy football season? That’s nothing compared to this story from Sarajevo.
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When it comes to employee discipline, this is how it’s supposed to work: Taking action against one worker for wrongdoing discourages others from trying the same thing.
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Tags: china, discipline, fired
A union in Great Britain has voiced its displeasure at a meat processing company’s policy of requiring its employees to clock out every time they have to use the bathroom.
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Tags: bathroom, clock out, Dickensian
