As credit related losses ripple through the financial and construction sectors, many organizations will be forced to consider job cuts. Selecting employees for lay off must be collaboration between managers and human...
A state court judge ordered Wal-Mart to pay over $36.5 million in attorneys’ fees to the plaintiffs’ lawyers who represented the 186,000 present and former Pennsylvania employees in a class action lawsuit filed in...
Sexual Harassment Policy & Practice
November 13, 2007
The Ohio Employment Law Blog has a couple of posts that highlight court decisions involving the employers’ sexual harassment policies and practices. The posts put bring home the “real life” implications...
Revised I-9 Form Issued: Changes Acceptable Documentation
November 9, 2007
A revised I-9 Employment Verification Form was issued by the Homeland Security that includes the following changes to the Form I-9 process: Five documents have been removed from List A of the List of Acceptable...
Rising costs have motivated many employers to adopt High Deductible Health Plans (HDHP) increasing the amount paid by employees for health care coverage. The Towers Perrin 2008 Health Care Cost Survey notes that...