How To React When Your Expertise Is Challenged

Every HR professional has their expertise challenged at some point in their career.  Its a hazard of a profession that many managers in other disciplines feel they know as well as their own.  I once reported job misclassifications (and the plan to correct them) at a...

Are Insurance Costs Dropping Under the ACA? Yes and No

  We have been treated to a barrage of news and commentary on insurance rates as they are announced for state exchanges.  Those who believe, unfailingly, that the ACA will cause rates to drop point at the market places in New York and California where announced rates...

Is It OK To Fire Someone For Being Too Fat?

Earlier this year we were treated to the case of a dentist firing his assistant for being so “hawt” that continuing to employ her jeopardized his marriage.  She lost. But whereas beauty is in the eye of the beholder, weight can be measured by a scale. The Borgata...