Managing employees is tricky. You want your employees to like you, but also respect you and do what you ask them to do. Spending more time with coworkers than with your own family makes it easy to form close relationships, but when your employees see you as a friend first, and a boss second, it ...
Finding employees to abide by a rigid attendance schedule is becoming more difficult as the trend of flextime grows and gains popularity. According to the U.S. Employee Workforce report, the number of employees working from home has risen 115 percent since 2005, with reports showing higher levels of job...
In the years since President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), several trends have emerged as employers, employees, and the courts have sought to interpret and apply the complex law. Some of these trends are outsourcing, abuse and measures to counter abuse, states’ takin...
As most people know by now, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), acting through Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), raided seven food processing plants in six small towns near Jackson, MS – Bay Springs, Carthage, Canton, Morton, Pelahatchie and Sebastapol and detained 680 mostly Latino w...
Dunkin’ (which recently changed its name from Dunkin’ Donuts) has sued several franchisees with nine locations in Delaware and Pennsylvania in federal court, seeking to stop them from running their Dunkin’ Donuts restaurants after their franchise agreements were terminated over failure to properly...
