Tag: litigation

The Truth About Hiring the Best

By Jeff Farthing Feb 13, 2008 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Feb 13, 2008

Employment law attorney Michael Maslanka reviews the book The Truth about Hiring the Best by Cathy Fyock. The review highlights a few of the book’s truths about hiring, interviewing, and dealing with employee relations. Looking to pick up the latest thinking on hiring? Pick up The Truth About Hiring the Best (Truth About), a quick […]

Irony

By Julie Elgar Jan 25, 2008 That's What She Said

Updated: Jan 25, 2008

I don’t usually pass along pop-culture links, but this one was too good to be true. On Tuesday of this week, TMZ reported that Steve Carell, who plays Michael Scott on The Office, was selected for jury duty in an employment-related dispute in California! Well, at least he had some experience with litigation earlier this […]

Back From Vacation

By Julie Elgar Jul 13, 2007 That's What She Said

Updated: Jul 13, 2007

LITIGATION VALUE: $150,000 I empathize with Michael. There is nothing worse than the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize that you just accidentally forwarded that witty e-mail (which you worked on all morning) mocking your boss’s bad suits and strange habits to your boss, herself, rather than to your clever […]

Back from Vacation

By Julie Elgar Apr 20, 2007 That's What She Said

Updated: Apr 20, 2007

LITIGATION VALUE: $150,000 I empathize with Michael. There is nothing worse than the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize that you just accidentally forwarded that witty e-mail (which you worked on all morning) mocking your boss’s bad suits and strange habits to your boss, herself, rather than to your clever […]

HR Bonanza

By Julie Elgar Mar 30, 2007 That's What She Said

Updated: Mar 30, 2007

Last night’s five episode marathon of The Office was an HR executive’s nightmare!  Below, I’ve blogged about the litigation value of each of the five episodes separately — four of which are entirely new entries as the episodes were from previous seasons.  While they aired as individual episodes, if these incidents were to occur in […]

Branch Closing

By Julie Elgar Mar 2, 2007 That's What She Said

Updated: Mar 2, 2007

LITIGATION VALUE: $150,000 in defense costs — unless (and that is a big unless) the WARN Act applies. Call me crazy, but announcing “we’re screwed” is not the best way to tell employees that the Company is closing down its branch. Not only does it create turmoil among the employees, but it comes nowhere close […]

Back From Vacation

By Julie Elgar Jan 4, 2007 That's What She Said

Updated: Jan 4, 2007

LITIGATION VALUE: $150,000 I empathize with Michael. There is nothing worse than the sinking feeling in the pit of your stomach when you realize that you just accidentally forwarded that witty e-mail (which you worked on all morning) mocking your boss’s bad suits and strange habits to your boss, herself, rather than to your clever […]

Branch Closing

By Julie Elgar Nov 9, 2006 That's What She Said

Updated: Nov 9, 2006

LITIGATION VALUE: $150,000 in defense costs — unless (and that is a big unless) the WARN Act applies. Call me crazy, but announcing “we’re screwed” is not the best way to tell employees that the company is closing down its branch. Not only does it create turmoil among the employees, but it comes nowhere close […]