DMi PRESENTS A WEBINAR: Social Media: From Hiring to Firing
Monday, October 29, 2012
Pacific: 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.
Central: 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Mountain: 11:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Eastern: 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
When registering online, you will be prompted to sign in as a new or existing student. Continue reading Social Media Webinar: October 29
I am pleased to share with you my latest post on SHRM’s “We Know Next” blog.
How to Break Through the Glass Ceiling Without Getting Cut can be found here.
Those of you who know me know that my passion is animal rescue. I wrote an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer about 36 cats who were rescued from abuse and one little soul who captured my soul. In memory of Jeffrey, here is his story:
A manager gives an employee a final warning. The employee is upset and tweets that her manager is a drug dealer. The employee knows her tweet is patently false but tweets anyway with malice.
Two employees compete for a job. The employee who does not get the job wants revenge. He posts on his Facebook page that his co-worker is a pedophile. The employee knows his Facebook posting is patently false; he maliciously posts it anyway. Continue reading Did the NLRB Bless Employees Who Use Social Media to Defame? Sort Of!
As originally published in SHRM’s HR Magazine.
Defending Your Reduction in Force
Vol. 57 No. 9
A defense of the Age Discrimination in Employment Act comes of age.
9/1/2012 By Jonathan A. Segal
In Smith v. City of Jackson (544 U.S. 228 (2005)), the U.S. Supreme Court held that adverse impact claims are available under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). Continue reading Defending Your Reduction in Force
Please see Q&A session with Bloomberg BNA fleshing out some of the common questions about the EEOC’s mediation process:
http://www.bna.com/qa-brief-thoughts-b17179869251/
Thank you,
Jonathan
As one political convention is done and we are about to start another, I am pleased to post my most recent article for Fortune/CNN on political talk in the workplace and beyond:
http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/09/04/the-perils-of-political-talk-at-work.
Maryland and Illinois became the first two states to prohibit employers from asking applicants or employees for their social media passwords. Okay in the other 48 states? NO! Please see my recent blog for SHRM’s We Know Next: http://www.weknownext.com/blog/the-perils-of-asking-applicants-or-employees-for-their-private-social-media.
Thank you.
As published by SHRM’s We Know Next: my latest article can be found here.
Many employers have rules that prohibit employees from returning to work while they are not on duty. These rules are designed to keep order but they also have the effect of limiting employee access to engage in union activity while off duty. Continue reading Meditate and Then Read: Off Duty Policies and the NLRB
I am pleased to post my recent article on unions for Fortune/CNN: http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/19/unions-public-sector/?iid=SF_F_River
The article provides an overview of some of the reasons for the deep decline in unionization. But be careful of complacency; management complacency is the union organizer’s best friend. Continue reading Are We Keeping Unions In the Friend Zone?