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Back in April, the New York Times wrestled with the issue of whether the unpaid intern was legal or not. One of the conclusions stated: ...

We've all seen it at one point or another: a bully in the workplace. This person can be a boss, an owner, someone in power or someone ju...

Once in a while, we get an excellent guest blog submitted to us. This is one of those cases. Jay, a friend of mine, who just graduated law s...

A few older articles to get out of the way today, but that doesn't make them unrelevant! From a mid-February New York Times report, t...

From New York Magazine's always excellent Grub Street : When Marc Murphy testified against a proposed bill mandating that restaurateur...

In was Patriot Day up in Boston today and here are some links to celebrate: - The Laconic Law Blog tells us how making a profane comment ab...

Yesterday, Congress approved the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. BLR has a clear synopsis of the law at http://compensation.blr.com/display.c...

It'll be interesting to see the fallout in the job market from the current financial crisis, but some effects are already seen... The fi...

Somebody's got a case of the Mondays! Here's a list of seven employee complaints for this Monday: 1) Your employer is watching over ...

Isiah Thomas lives in a fantasy world. If the former NBA star-turned NBA coach-turned NBA executive was governed by normal workplace rules, ...

We're in the middle of the NBA and NHL playoffs...but the most important whistleblower story may be in Human Resources... The Washington...

The last entry of our blogroll has some great blogs for you to check out on the Astron Solutions blog... First, the Laconic Law Blog has a l...

Yeah...we got more links for you... First a blog about the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM): click here Next, from Boston Globe,...

Marching on here on the first workday in March as we update you on some Human Resource news that we had previously touched on here on the bl...

We've been talking about it here for a while so wanted to update you by letting you know a ruling has come down in the Age Discriminatio...

We've been talking a lot lately about the cases the Supreme Court would hear but one ruling they just came out on dealt with 401(K)s... ...

Over the past few weeks, I’ve been hearing more and more about wage and hour lawsuits. It seems the U.S. Department of Labor is stepping up...

Whether you call it Ageism (detailed here in full Wiki style) or age discrimination, you, as a Human Resource Professional, should be getti...

The Washington Post reports that amazingly 200,000 Pentagon employees may be fired just in time for the holiday season: click here The New Y...

We're in our last month of December but we're not slowing down with our blog articles... First, on our theme of the recent strikes, ...