Watching baseball in Fenway Park is different than watching baseball in Wrigley Field. My sons noted that distinction within an inning, commenting that Fenway fans cheered players hitting the cutoff man whereas, back home at
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Joint Liability For Franchisors?
College legends shape minds forever. Having attended the University of California, Berkeley, “The Play”—an unscripted play to win over arch-rival Stanford with only four seconds on the clock – was the subject of
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Unconventional Tactics
Malcolm Gladwell in his essay “How David Beats Goliath” extolled the use of the full-court press in basketball: “In the world of basketball, there is one story after another … about legendary games
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Independent Contractors: The Newest Ultrahazardous Sport
Base jumping, street luging, and transporting loose glass bottles of nitroglycerine in the back of a Jeep off-road have been equally adventurous activities in the modern world. Now, courtesy of New York City, utilizing independent
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Suggested New Year’s Resolution
Everything in employment devolves to motivation. Terminations result from a failure to motivate; so too strikes, turnover, and virtually every other issue facing employment lawyers and HR managers. Theories abound in the business literature on
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OSHA’s Safety “Nudge” to Employers: No Reportable Injuries Is Not Time for a Pizza Party
Think 180 days without an OSHA recordable injury is cause for celebration? Think again.
New OSHA rules are potential game-changers to the status quo on safety. Those rules require notice must be provided to employees
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#SocialActivism in the Workplace
Hashtags are ubiquitous. The 10 most influential hashtags on Twitter are:
10. #GivingTuesday
9. #YesAllWomen
8. #PrayforJapan
7. #BringBackOurGirls
6. #IceBucketChallenge
5. #Sandy
4. #IndyRef
3. #BlackLivesMatter
2. #LoveWins
1. #Ferguson
(Washington Post, “These 10
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Kvetching Toward Living With EEO-1 Compensation Data Demands
Nobody remembers I.F. “Izzy” Stone (1907-1989) but everybody should; he was a reporter who did deep-dive readings of the handouts, the press releases, and the public documents. Izzy would love the EEOC as a target.
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Space, Time, and Taxes: How The Theory Of Special Relativity Applies To Settling An Employment Claim
Special thanks to Taylor Carico for contributing to this post.
Tax implications of employment settlements bedevil everyone. Even Albert Einstein famously stated that “the hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.”
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An Apple a Day Will Not Keep Paid Leave Away
Take two aspirin before reading further because apples won’t help. Keeping up with the ever-expanding paid leave laws is enough to give any employer a headache. Let’s start with those currently effective – 4 states,
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