Eleanor Gelder 25 April 2013 Important decisions from the courts and tribunals this month covered collective consultation in a redundancy or TUPE situation, and disability. Below we highlight three important lessons for employers who are dealing with these matters.
Remember to provide information on agency… continue
Marta Moakley 17 April 2013 The recent firing of Rutgers University basketball coach Mike Rice, but only after a video surfaced of him physically hitting players and hurling repeated homophobic epithets at them, is a virtual primer of what NOT to do from a US… continue
Noelle Murphy 3 April 2013 The removal
of the default retirement age has made managing older workers and their exit
from the organisation more complex for employers. Or has it?
Our latest
research on managing older workers without a default retirement age explores
how employers… continue
Eleanor Gelder 28 March 2013 The appellate courts have been busy in March 2013 and below we highlight three important lessons for employers dealing with warnings, disabled staff and employees’ comments on Facebook.
Check the context and wording of warnings before deciding to dismiss
Be… continue
Jeya Thiruchelvam 26 March 2013 Have you ever got home after a hard day in the office and vented about your day on Facebook? Were you lulled into a false sense that your words would have no consequences as you tapped away on your laptop… continue
Marta Moakley 20 March 2013 A question for US employers: How would you treat a ‘hero’ employee at your organization?
If an employee has reacted to exceptional circumstances by stepping outside of their day-to-day responsibilities in order to help others, would your first response be… continue
Stephen Simpson 19 March 2013 Hidden away in the Government’s progress report on employment law reform, which sets out a useful (if terrifying) timetable for employment law changes over the next two years is a worrying passage that suggests that the Government is confused about… continue
Beth Zoller 7 March 2013 As we celebrate Women’s History Month in March, we recognize that 2013 marks the 50th anniversary of Betty Friedan’s life changing book The Feminine Mystique which ignited the women’s liberation movement and caused immense social and political change on all… continue
Michael Jacobson 20 February 2013 I appeared on everyone’s favorite HR talk show this afternoon, @DriveThruHR with Bryan Wempen (@bryanwempen) and William Tincup (@williamtincup) to discuss all things termination in 2013.
Listen to the taping here: Mike Jacobson at Lunch with Drive Thru HR.
You… continue
Marta Moakley 13 February 2013 In honor of President’s Day, I thought it’d be fun to take the Performance Appraisal process to the West Wing.
Each day this week, I will be discussing the art of communicating performance reviews while applying the theme of… continue
