by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 9, 2011
The National Labor Relations Board is concluding an employer cannot fire an employee because he or she posts on Facebook if the posting is about employment relations and working conditions—-but don’t interpret this protection as a license to state any...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 8, 2011
1. You say you’re so injuried you’ve lost all enjoyment of life. Your recent video shows you bungie jumping and doing gymnastics. 2. You claim you’re unemployed and unemployable, but brag about your recent big deals as an...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 8, 2011
The Employer Will Likely Google You, and Will Likely Seek A Co-Employee “Friend’s” complicity (oh, I mean cooperation) to view your postings. The employer will troll for inconsistencies, and for independent reasons to discipline you. Stop...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 8, 2011
Excerpts from the E.E.O.C.’s Guidelines for an Adequate Harassment Investigation [Found at: EEOC GUIDELINES]: NOTICE Number EEOC 915.002 Date 6/18/99 1. SUBJECT: Enforcement Guidance: Vicarious Employer...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 8, 2011
Federal wage Law [“FLSA”] provides that workers resident on the work premises and “on call” at all hours may be entiled to overtime for those hours if: a) the employer is an “institution primarily engaged in the care of the...
by Experience, Dedication, Results | Aug 8, 2011
In California, a commissioned salesperson who earns more than one-half of his or her compensation from commissions, either by flat fee per sale or as a percentage of each sale, is exempt from overtime. That is, the employee does not qualify for overtime. ...