Tricks Employers Use To Pay Less Salary
Bosses continue to actively and deceptively trick employees, paycheck after paycheck, to pay less salary. Companies such as Walmart and McDonald’s have been caught syst...
3 Signs You’re Educated But Not Very Smart
“Stupid is as stupid does.” This line appears in Forest Gump, and is a variant of “Handsome is as handsome does” in J. R. R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. The pr...
Can You Get Fired For No Reason At All?
Yes. You can get fired for no reason at all. Your employer does not need a reason to fire you. In most of the United States, employees are generally under ‘at-will’ e...
40 Questions to Ask Before You Accept A Job Offer
Congratulations! You’ve made it through the most difficult part of the job hunt. All the job applications, interview rounds, and thank-you notes have paid off! Now, it ...
6 Different Types of Compensation Plans & Benefits
Long ago, we wrote about the importance of a compensation plan in an organization. I thought we’d follow up on that post by exploring the six different types of compens...
European Employers Must Notify Job Applicants Over Social Media Screening
“It’s no secret that employers do a background and social media screening on job applicants,” the HR Director of a UK clothing and footwear retailer told me at a co...
Can You Fire Someone For Sleeping On The Job?
A few years ago, our front desk representative let a 20-something interviewee into the meeting room and advised her that the hiring manager would be there in just a minut...
Job Hopping Makes Sense Only When You’re Not Getting Paid Enough
Recession, inflation and a change in lifestyle are some of the many factors why people change jobs more often. Every single person reading this article did the same thing...
Are You The Smelly Coworker? Let ‘No Sweat’ App Be The Judge.
There is a word in Japanese for the behavior of coworkers who annoy others with their pungent aromas – sumehara, or “smell harassment.” Corporations in Japan have s...
The Many Ways You Can Deal With A Compulsive Liar at Work
I worked for a media company for a little over four years and there was a person, who we will call Betty who started two years after me. We worked in different department...
Rewire Your Brain For Greater Happiness And Peace of Mind
Jenny was a petite, demure woman in her early 20s who was visibly upset when she came into my office. A recent B.A. graduate, from a prestigious university, Jenny had a s...
Workplace Sitcoms Reflecting the Faulty Modern American Work Culture
Today’s workplace comedies are able to pull in massive audiences and a cultural relevance that keeps them on top of the all-time best television lists. As with most mod...
Uber Begins Housecleaning with Firing of 20 Employees
Uber Technologies Inc has fired 20 employees, including some senior executives, following a probe by a law firm into sexual harassment allegations and other workplace mis...
Do you have to pay employees for a smoking break?
Employees who nip out of office for smoke breaks work for a whole week less than their non-smoking colleagues. On an average, smokers spend 45 minutes away from their des...
Walmart is Accused of Punishing Employees for Sick Days
Walmart and labor unions go together like oil and ice. In terms of labor regulations, the nation’s largest private employer is basically the Tiger Woods of retail chai...
Walmart is Transforming Employee Training with Virtual Reality
Walmart has made headlines in this past year for all the wrong reasons. All too often, these headlines revolve around the widespread mistreatment of workers. More than tw...
