Always double-check and consider the circumstances before making a final discipline or termination decision based on an employee’s failure to call. off.

Firing an employee is never pleasant for anyone involved, including supervisors. It’s one of the hardest things any boss ever has to do. But there’s a right way to terminate and a wrong way. If you handle a termination incorrectly, you could easily trigger a wrongful-termination lawsuit—or worse. A recently fired employee could be so angry that she falsely claims that she was fired for a discriminatory reason.

This training will help your managers and supervisors understand how to document disciplinary problems that could lead to termination, and how to handle the termination itself.

A year after Students for Fair Admissions, some employers are taking new approaches, finding novel ways to diversify their workforces without resorting to specific hiring and promotion goals.

Employers have the legal right to control employees’ activities on the job. That includes putting a stop to political activism or political solicitations at work.

We used a GPS device on a driver this past week and found out that he parks his truck sometimes for as long as three hours and clocks this time as working time. Can we discipline him for this, letting him know that we are aware that he is stealing time?

Two federal courts have now weighed in on the FTC's noncompete ban, reaching opposite conclusions and setting up what could be a lengthy legal fight.

How far can you go in monitoring employees? Legal lines divide what is and is not permitted.

A federal appeals court recently reminded a lower court that the FLSA requires paying hourly workers for all time spent working on their employer’s behalf.

Is anxiety considered a disability under the ADA?

New proposed regulations on heat breaks may make employers liable for overtime they didn’t see coming. Now is the time to review your policies to make sure they comply with DOL FLSA rules on paid and unpaid breaks.