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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives approved a bill — the Employee Free Choice Act — that would make it easier for employees to form unions. The measure was approved by a vote of 241-185.
Leading attorneys say you can stay dry in a rising tide of FLSA lawsuits by auditing your exempt/nonexempt classifications and maintaining a strict policy against improper deductions from pay. If you’d like your company to join the ranks of Wal-Mart, Starbucks, Radio Shack, and IBM, that’s easy to do. No, not in making stratospheric levels […]
By BLR Founder and CEO Bob Brady Google has shifted its hiring criteria from “rocket scientists” to team players. The question is ‘Why?’ Google, which has the reputation of hiring only the smartest of the smart (perfect SATs, “A” list colleges, highest grades), may be “dumbing down.” According to newspaper reports, it is relaxing its […]