Feb 13, 2024 Moonlighting in the Age of Employee Entitlement By Jennifer B. Rubin No, this piece isn't about the 80s comedy-drama featuring a detective dynamic duo's snappy dialogue. This moonlighting refers to an...
Feb 13, 2024 The Dark Side of Your Room: the Drawbacks of Fully-Remote Work By Kevin Kim With many companies cutting back on pandemic-era remote work policies, opting for a hybrid model, or even requiring employees to be...
Jan 25, 2024 An Employee's Luxury of Thought By Jennifer B. Rubin The recent Wall Street Journal piece about giving employees the time and space to think raises some good points about creativity and...
Nov 15, 2023 Target Strikes Back at Shareholder's (Reverse) Social Justice Suit By Jennifer B. Rubin We recently posted about the investor who sued Target Corporation for securities laws violations arising from Target's alleged failure to...
Oct 13, 2023 When is a job transfer, not a job transfer? SCOTUS set to determine the scope of Title VII prohibitions on employment discrimination By Delaney Busch The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 bars discrimination in employment transfer...
Sep 21, 2023 A Cup of Coffee - and a Dismissal - To Go By Jennifer B. Rubin Last month, Federal District Court Judge Stanley A. Bastian dismissed at oral argument a shareholder suit challenging the Starbucks DEI...
Sep 12, 2023 Feedback That Puts Employees in Their Feels By Jennifer B. Rubin Today’s WSJ piece about making performance "feedback" language more positive to account for the feelings of employees to whom performance...
Sep 12, 2023 Combatting Employee Burnout by Balancing Workloads By Brad Tartick As employers aim to increase the productivity of their workforce following what is often a slower summer period, they may unintentionally...
Sep 07, 2023 How Companies Can Leverage the Value of Structured Workplace Mentoring By Mike Flesuras The value of mentoring has been popularized in many cultural contexts: apprenticeships, films, literature, business relationships, and...
Aug 21, 2023 An Employment Match: Are Dating Apps the New Recruiting Device? By Jennifer B. Rubin The recent Wall Street Journal piece about the use of online dating apps for employment networking explored what happens when people in...
Aug 17, 2023 Building a Proactive Mental Health Strategy in the Workplace By Mike Flesuras What are best practices businesses and HR professionals can use to foster and maintain the mental wellbeing of employees? The answer to...
Aug 09, 2023 DEI by Deliberate Design By Jennifer B. Rubin The recent Wall Street Journal article about the Supreme Court's affirmative action decision and its potential to chill corporate...
Jul 31, 2023 The Legal Burden of Bully Bosses By Jennifer B. Rubin Today's Wall Street Journal featured not one but two articles addressing jerky behavior at work. The first article addressed the extremes...
Jun 28, 2023 Employee or Independent Contractor? Not so fast… By Mintz The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a decision finding that makeup artists, wig artists and hairstylists of The Atlanta...
Jun 26, 2023 Performance Evaluations as Talk Therapy By Jennifer B. Rubin If 20% of Americans currently live with mental illness as the National Institute of Mental Health reports, and 60% of American adults are...
Jun 01, 2023 Who (Actually) is the Boss (Take Two)? The NLRB Takes on Non-Competes By Jennifer B. Rubin A few months ago, we wrote about the NLRB General Counsel's opinion that some non-disparagement and confidentiality provisions in...