When Taylor Swift revealed the track list for “The Tortured Poets Department” – a new album she’ll release on April 19 – fans immediately began theorizing about what might have inspired each song. While your #FPSwifties live...more
4/12/2024
/ Ban the Box ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Human Resources Professionals ,
Job Applicants ,
Notice Requirements ,
Recruitment Policies ,
Remote Working ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Romances
The day before Valentine’s Day is about “ladies celebrating ladies,” as Amy Poehler’s character on the TV show Parks & Rec put it – it’s Galentine’s Day. But this year, your organization shouldn’t just leave it to women to...more
2/12/2024
/ Diversity ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employee Engagement ,
Employee Retention ,
Employment Policies ,
Equal Pay ,
Flexible Work Arrangements ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Job Promotions ,
Mentors ,
Wellness Programs ,
Work Life Balance
While we respect Taylor Swift’s accomplishments for so many reasons, your #FPSwifties particularly admire Ms. Swift as an employer. From employee appreciation (those legendary tour bonuses sound really nice!) to her...more
Employers across a wide variety of industries are looking to ramp up their hiring efforts as the holiday season begins. Indeed, many businesses will rely on temporary workers to meet the uptick in demand that holiday shopping...more
11/20/2023
/ Confidential Information ,
Employee Training ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Eligibility Verification ,
Employment Policies ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Minors ,
Misclassification ,
Paid Time Off (PTO) ,
Seasonal Employment ,
Seasonal Workers ,
Supervisors ,
Temporary Employees ,
Wage and Hour
As an FP Weekly member, you’ll receive practical and cutting-edge checklists of issues to consider, action steps to take, and goals to accomplish to ensure you remain on the top of your game when it comes to workplace...more
Famous parents often smooth the road to stardom for their children — even when their kids have earned a place in Hollywood through talent and hard work. After all, getting an audition is easier for the aspiring actor whose...more
With the labor shortage, you may have started considering expanding your applicant pool to groups of potential employees you had not previously considered, like minors. Even if you have not yet considered hiring minors, you...more
11/15/2022
/ Child Labor ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Minors ,
Posting Requirements ,
Recordkeeping Requirements ,
Rest and Meal Break ,
State Labor Laws ,
Tennessee ,
Wage and Hour ,
Work Permits ,
Work Schedules
Employers across a wide variety of industries are looking to ramp up their hiring efforts as the holiday season begins. Indeed, many businesses will rely on temporary workers to meet the uptick in demand that holiday shopping...more
One of the nation’s most powerful federal appeals courts just ruled that the NLRB was correct when it said a West Virginia-based manufacturing company couldn’t fire a worker for vulgar comments because it failed to...more
You may recall the Seinfeld episode where Elaine Benes consumes a $29,000 piece of cake from the 1937 wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor. A birthday cake from an office party in Kentucky may have that pricey wedding...more
It’s been said that from crisis comes opportunity. And given that the COVID-19 pandemic has handed us the greatest collective crisis in our lifetimes, it should stand to reason that we should now be in the perfect position to...more
5/3/2021
/ Business Operations ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Corporate Governance ,
Data Security ,
Employee Benefits ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Foreign Workers ,
Form I-9 ,
Gig Economy ,
Healthcare Workers ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Hospitality Industry ,
Labor Relations ,
Legal Operations ,
Pay Equity Laws ,
Remote Working ,
Staffing Agencies ,
State Labor Laws ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
Addressing the issue for the first time since the pandemic, the National Labor Relations Board recently released a series of advice memoranda instructing its Regional offices to dismiss various COVID-19 related charges...more
8/19/2020
/ Adverse Employment Action ,
Business Closures ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Coronavirus/COVID-19 ,
Duty to Bargain ,
Employer Rights ,
Hazard Pay ,
Health and Safety ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Lay-Offs ,
New Guidance ,
NLRB ,
Paid Sick Leave ,
Protected Concerted Activity ,
Retaliation ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour ,
Workplace Safety
This blog is littered with posts talking about the various states that are intent on creating a California-like legal test that would make it supremely challenging to classify workers as independent contractors. We’ve done...more