Human Resources
Handout From My 2/22/17 Ethics, Hiring & Managing Employees Presentation @ Chicago’s City Hall
Below are the materials from my 2/22 presentation Hiring the Best Employees & Managing Employee Behavior. Click on an image to enlarge.
Fast Company & Business News Daily Quote Me Extensively in Recent Articles-Firing Employees & Guide for Businesses Being Sued
Thanks to Fast Company's Gwen Moran & Business News Daily's Nicole Fallon Taylor for quoting me in their articles below. My contributions are in green. The link to the original Fast Company article is here. The original Business News Daily article is here. The following quote, from the Business News Daily article, pretty much sums [...]
Another Question From A Reader Regarding Pyramiding of Overtime
Last week, I received the following question here: If in a given week employees worked Monday – Friday 8 hours each day but three of those days were considered holidays which are to be paid at a rate of time and a half, would the 24 hours of recognized holiday pay be paid also at time [...]
Response to Reader’s Query Regarding Pyramiding of Overtime
There's continued interest in the pyramiding of overtime issue. Here's my prior 2 postings on the topic: 1/2/13 & 4/1/16. Recently, I received the below request from a reader: I have seen your writings on pyramiding of overtime and was wondering if you could help on this issue. We are following a bargaining unit contract [...]
I’m Quoted & Cited in 3 New Articles: Interactive Article-7 Deadly Sins of FLSA Compliance; in Obesity & Hiring: Steering Clear of Legal Trouble; & How Freelancers Are Forced to Fend for Themselves Against Sexual Harassment
Thanks to Tsheets.com for interviewing me for their FLSA compliance related article, 7 Deadly Sins of FLSA. It's in a cool interactive format. You can also read the entirety of the sections that I'm quoted in, as a PDF here: flsa-7-deadly-sins. Also, thanks to Broadly (a Vice.com channel) for quoting me in their article How Freelancers Are [...]