Here’s this week’s question, one that we’re asked approximately every 0.8 seconds: Can an employer monitor employee e-mail and Internet usage and take action based on that monitoring? Yes Yes, if the employee signed a consent form consistent with the new National Right to Privacy Act (NRPA) It depends on whether the company has a [...]

Yesterday, Manpower released a brand new World of Work Insight paper offering solutions to help counter the lack of skilled trades workers around the world. For more on that issue from Reuters, click here.

You are hereby notified that you have a mandatory training session this evening. At 9/8c, you are required to tune in to your local NBC affiliate and watch this week’s episode of The Office. Failure to do so could result in disciplinary action. In my humble opinion, The Office is the world’s greatest employment law training aid. All you have [...]

According to Manpower’s 2010 Talent Shortage Survey, nearly a third of employers worldwide are struggling to find the talent they need, with skilled trades positions ranked globally as the most difficult to fill. What should you do? Stop reading this right now and download Manpower’s new World of Work Insight paper, Strategic Migration—A Short-Term Solution [...]

Seems like a simple enough question, but it’s one that has resulted in lots and lots of litgation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In a move that generated very little discussion in the employment law/HR universe, the Department of Labor (DOL) recently clarified exactly what “clothes” means under Section 203(o) of the FLSA. [...]

First, the good news . . . According to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. workplace fatalities fell 17% in 2009 to an all-time record low. There were a total of 4,340 workplace deaths, compared to 5,214 the previous year. In a similar vein, the National Council of Compensation Insurance reports [...]

In my humble opinion, NBC’s The Office is the world’s #1 employment law training aid. All you have to do is (1) watch it and (2) do the exact opposite of everything you see. To help enhance your viewing experience, each week I provide a critique of the action from an employment lawyer’s perspective. Last [...]