Employees generally love Alternative Workweek Schedules. They prefer, for example, working four 10-hour days to working five eight-hour days. They work the same number of hours but they get an
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Questions California Job Interviewers Need to Avoid in 2018
The laws about what employers can ask job applicants continue to evolve. Here are four areas of inquiry that are not allowed:
- Questions about prior salary – With the passage
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All the California Minimum Wage Information You Need In One Place
We write a lot about minimum wages. That’s not because we’re unimaginative. We’re very imaginative. We can imagine things that you couldn’t even imag… But I digress.
Our own Tyreen
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New California Employment Laws – 2018
It’s time once again for the annual roundup of new California employment laws. Since we’ve discussed many of these laws when they were enacted, I’m including links to those earlier
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Answers to Questions About Accommodating Disabilities
Just over a month ago, I had the pleasure of presenting a webinar entitled: “2017 Update: Accommodating Employees With Disabilities.” You can download the slides from my presentation. There
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A Chart Summarizing CA’s State and Local Paid Sick Leave Rules
Tyreen Torner has just updated this CA State & Local PSL Chart. It summarizes the Paid Sick Leave laws for California and the eight cities that have their own
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Don’t Sugarcoat Performance Evaluations
Many people want to be liked. Problems arise, however, when a supervisor’s desire to be liked prevents them from pointing out deficiencies in an employee’s work. Pointing out deficiencies is
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Webinar: 2017 Update on Accommodating Employees With Disabilities
On September 27, 2017, at noon, I will be presenting a webinar entitled “2017 Update: Accommodating Employees With Disabilities.” The program is intended for human resource professionals and
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5 Steps to Prevent Third-Party Harassment Claims
Koko the Gorilla, who turned 46 last month, has quite a following. Much of that has to do with the fact that she purportedly has a vocabulary of over
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New Harassment Checklists from the EEOC
A year ago, I wrote about a report from an EEOC Task Force on risk factors for workplace harassment. Well the Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in
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