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Labor Relations: The Rules Have Changed | BusinessWest

October 1, 2011

In Collective Bargaining, Employers Have to Watch What They Say This article by Frederick sullivan is one of the most timely and interesting pieces on the mechanics of collective bargaining language that I have seen in a long time.  Now more than ever, labor relations practitioners have to think not only about what they say, [...]

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Court of Appeals enforces NLRB order, finds investment fund manager jointly liable for unlawful acts at Hawaii resort

September 30, 2011

NLRB rules against company AND private equity firm jointly From an NLRB press release this afternoon.   Managers at private equity firms need to pay attention to this! The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has enforced a National Labor Relations Board order finding that Oaktree Capital Management, L.P., an asset manager for [...]

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New Mandatory Poster from NLRB now available

September 14, 2011

Mandatory poster explaining employee rights under NLRB This is a new manadatory posting for employers in the United States.  The failure to post comes with teeth.  Be sure you understand the new requirements. From the NLRB web site: A workplace poster that describes employee rights under the National Labor Relations Act is now available for [...]

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Don’t be a dummy when it comes to social media job search!

September 6, 2011

Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies I don’t many book reviews on this blog, but I got excited when I was asked to read an advance copy of Job Searching with Social Media for Dummies by Joshua Waldman.   Josh is the founder of the Career Enlightenment blog, and has put together a great resource [...]

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Human Resource Leaders, Keep Your CEO Out of Prison

September 1, 2011

Via Scoop.it – Labor and employee Relations Oliver Bell, Inc. Warns Employers that Non-compliance with proposed reporting changes in the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA) could carry stiff penalties, including prison time for your top executives (CEO/CFO). Show original

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Through rain, sleet, and snow – in a crappy jalopy mail truck

May 21, 2011

Has the mailman been here yet? I am not sure anyone even cares that much if the letter carrier is on time anymore.    I don’t need probably 95% of the mail I get today. One of my old employers, the United States Postal Service is in serious financial trouble.  They are bleeding money, reporting a [...]

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Guest Post: Job Search Tips via @TomTom_HRGuy

April 17, 2011

  Job Searching Tips @TomTom_HRGuy  (check out his blog) Hey Everyone! My friends and classmates wanted me to talk about some tips on job searching. When I was trying to do some research on this topic online, I found absolutely no definitive guide to job searching. There are all these little tips like “update your resume” or “Google [...]

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Breaking: NLRB settlement imposes heavy employer remedies

February 28, 2011

Board imposes heavy remedies on Missouri company The National Labor Relations Board has been discussing using more strict employer remedies in recent days, and a case they just settled contains many of these remedies, including requiring a company executive to read the terms of the settlement aloud before all employees, and granting access to the [...]

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Union to pay millions for illegally obtaining workers private information

February 28, 2011

Union accessed worker’s home addresses illegally A union is going to have to pay millions of dollars for imporporerly obtaining the home addresses of employees at the Cintas company, according to this story from the Courthouse News Service: A textile union must pay more than $4 million under the settlement of a federal class action that [...]

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Don’t believe the social media hype! You can still get fired for saying dumb sh*t on Facebook!

February 9, 2011

There is no Facebook Free Speech Back in November, I published a cautionary tale about Facebook and free speech in the workplace.  Back then I said that you could still be fired for saying dumb shit on Facebook, and that is still true today. Here is part of what I posted back then in response on to [...]

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