Human Resources
A couple of months ago, Barbara Magnan, a human resources manager in Ireland, and a member of my LinkedIn group, sent me the following question: I am currently completing a dissertation on the ways that various jurisdictions courts classify employment It seems wrong that in 2009, people in Ireland should have to forego basic employment [...]
On Thursday, April 16, 2009, labor and employment attorneys Lawrence Donoghue and I will be presenting an employer focused seminar on the Employee Free Choice Act (AKA Card Check Bill) at the Greater O'Hare Association. The seminar runs from 7:30 AM - 9:00 AM at the GOA, 650 E. Devon Ave., #155, Itasca. It's $10 [...]
This coming Wednesday, April 1, 10 AM-11 AM (CST), Steve Swirsky, Partner, Epstein, Becker & Green in NYC, & I will be the featured guests on Voice America's program "Return on Human Capital." The subject of our live interview will be the Employee Free Choice Act & other proposed "worker freedom acts". If any of [...]
My post on "rusing" or "ruse calling" led to a number of interesting and instructive comments. I thought that it might be worthwhile to respond to them in a single post. First, I think that it's a novel concept to equate employees as being the same as "property," especially in the context of criminally convicting [...]
On November 19, 2008, I was interviewed on Blog Talk Radio’s show the Recruiting Animal. The Recruiting Animal interviewed me on a number of labor & employment law related topics germane to recruiters. One topic seems to have created a MINOR controversy in the blogosphere. The issue of ruse calling or “rusing” came up. In [...]
