I was reading this recent CareerBuilder survey, which reports that 58% of employers have caught a lie on a resumé. (Most popular lie: skills embellishment).
As, CareerBuilder is apt to do, the survey contained a section of some of the most outlandish lies ever caught on a resumé.
Some that made that list include: Applicant included job experience that was actually his father’s. Meh.
Come January 1, most NJ employers will no longer be able to ask about an applicant’s criminal record during the initial employment application process.
That’s right.
Ban the box will be b-b-b-b-banned in the Garden State!
More on the new law after the jump…
How do you think that worked out? (I’ve got a pretty good guess too).
After the jump, let’s see if we’re right.
And I’m speaking today on social media in the workplace at the 2014 EEOC Excel Conference
Everything’s coming up Milhouse.
More on the former (and a little about the latter) after the jump…
Really. It’s a bad idea.
Like my youngest son using chopsticks and a fork at the same time to eat pho.
Ok, not that bad. But, definitely blogworthy.
More on this HR lesson after the jump…
Talk about a pissed-off plaintiff.
When the new amendments to the the Americans with Disabilities Act took effect in 2009, the law became more employee-friendly by expanding the definition of what constitutes a disability.
That said, the law doesn’t (yet) require an employer to have a sixth sense about whether a disabled employee requires a reasonable accommodation.
Generally, an employee has to ask for it. Or, as we find out after the jump, an ADA failure-to-accommodate lawsuit is pretty much doomed.
Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds.
But, if you send FMLA paperwork to an employee by first class mail, then you’re asking for trouble.
I’ll show you why after the jump…
Why, just the other night, I playing my 5-year-old son in a friendly game of Uno.
Well, it was friendly-ish in a cutthroat sorta way. At least, that’s what the look on his tear-stained face suggested to me when I mouthed “Uno,” shimmied, and spiked my final card to win my fourth game in a row.
Now, some would say that I took it a bit too far when I collected his tears, and then painted them on my face to mock his crying.
On the clock or off, when employees do dumb stuff on Facebook, it could cost them their jobs. And, apparently, their discrimination claims against their former employer too.
Yep, another employee screwed up online. Go figure.
More on that after the jump…
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