Well, it’s officially a trend: Employers are increasingly using personality tests for hiring decisions.
At least according to a recent The New York Times article which describes this as a burgeoning $2 billion industry.
While not new, personality tests are finding new traction as employers hire for remote work positions that have a different skill
I pose a simple question — When should you fire an employee?
Your answers, at first, may be simple: When they steal. When they lie. When they physically fight with another employee.
Then, you might start to add a few more: When they are absent from work. When they don’t do their job. Or don’t
Last week, the NLRB issued a landmark decision in McLaren Macomb that is already shaking up how private employers (both unionized and non-unionized) should consider severance agreements.
My colleagues have the full recap of the decision over at our sister blog, Employment Law Letter, from Friday and I highly recommend reading that first.
The key
Sure, I know you probably want to read about the NLRB’s decision this week questioning the legality of confidentiality and non-disparagement clauses in severance agreements for employees who aren’t supervisors. We’ll have more on that soon. (For now, Jon Hyman’s summary is a worthy substitute.)
But in the meantime, I wanted to highlight something
Over on our sister blog, the Employment Law Letter (you’ve subscribed to that one, right?), my colleague Marc Lombardi has word of a potential $17B penalty for potential violations of the Illinois Biometric Information Privacy Act.
The case arises from the allegations that White Castle required employees to scan their fingerprint in order to access
As citizens, it’s hard not to feel that some of the underpinnings of democracy have been under a lot of pressure these last few years. No doubt you’ve heard from employees about these issues. It may also be leading to increased conflict within the workplace.
Which is why one of the projects the American Bar
Let me preface what I’m about to say with a huge caveat: I’ve seen no empirical studies or surveys of employers to determine whether or not they are complying with the updated Connecticut FMLA law.
But having gotten that out of the way, I remain concerned that there are a ton of small employers out
Connecticut is considering a ban on non-compete agreements and expanding paid sick leave.
Continue Reading The Battle Over Non-Compete Agreements, Paid Sick Leave, and More
Since the start of the year, a whole bunch of tech firms have been going through a series of layoffs. The New York Times recently did an article about how such layoffs were “shocking” to a whole generation of workers typically Millennials and Generation Z who had never experienced such change before. (Generation X and
Another week of awful headlines, this time from California. Still more mass shootings. But if you have been following the news, there’s been many more. And obviously, Connecticut has not been immune from mass shootings and active shooter situations.
I’ve talked about workplace violence incidents before but over the last several years, employers have begun