‘Voluntary’ training time: To pay or not?

  • January 27, 2012

Do you offer extra off-duty training for employees that, while technically voluntary, is strongly recommended? If training participants are hourly employees, chances are...

Beware hidden danger of class-action lawsuits

  • January 22, 2012

Managers may think it’s safe to underpay employees by having them work off the clock or shaving time off their overtime tab because no one has complained. But it...

Charlie Munger’s one hour to himself

  • January 20, 2012

Charlie Munger, able partner of financier Warren Buffett, got frustrated early in his career because, as Buffett describes it, “he thought he was smarter than...

Top 7 reasons why the wrong people get hired

  • January 02, 2012

Nobody ever sets out to make a bad hire. But it happens, even to the best hiring managers. From managers' inadequate preparation to misguided hiring criteria to...

Shaun White: That’s how I roll

  • December 29, 2011

You'd be forgiven for expecting Shaun White to become a shill after winning a gold medal in snowboarding at the Olympics and more gold in skateboarding at the Summer X...

Know union rules on probationary employees

  • December 18, 2011

You won’t find many employers extolling the upsides of having a unionized workforce, but there is one advantage. If your union contract provides for a...