Employee Relations

The Eroded Trust of Toyota

February 17, 2010

Toyota’s recent woes with automobile manufacturing defects and the dragging of their feet in responding to the resulting safety and customer issues has left a lot of people feeling cold right now. This, combined with the record brisk temps we’ve been having anyway is wreaking havoc on the car buying public and our collective psyche. [...]

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64 Ways to Show Employee Love

January 28, 2010

I was listening to the radio the other day on my way home from the ever-present swim team car pool drive (an hour and a half round trip, ugh) and heard the radio jockeys talking about Valentine’s Day and an article on they found on the Internet related to “64 Ways to Say I Love [...]

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Employee Snow Storms

January 2, 2010

With the new year beginning, I started thinking about what the year might hold for the workplace and employees. Well, I’ll be honest; I was really thinking about snow and skiing. Those two are at least fun — I know, I know. Unless you have to get on the roof with the hairdryer to de-ice the gutters before the second storm [...]

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Attorneys Not Welcome?

December 15, 2009

We are getting close to the 30th anniversary of the Weingarten Rights. It’s funny that I came across an article in a local newspaper about a Florida appellate court ruling that the Manatee County School Board had no right to prevent a high school teacher (under investigation for inappropriate behavior with a student) to have [...]

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First Annual We’re Not Turkeys List

November 25, 2009

In the spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday, I’ve decided to share my top ten reasons why any organization should be thankful for HR. Here goes: 10 – We figure out where to find people to get the job done, even if there are no niche employees to be found who are experts in Java, HTML, Sequel Pro, [...]

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