by Chris Schrader | Jul 9, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
Most HR pros and experienced managers are comfortable with terminations involving egregious insubordination, particularly if the company has standing policies or practices that direct employees to treat one another with mutual respect and professional...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 8, 2014 | Affordable Care Act, Blog, Human Resources, In The News
Judging from the hyperventilated responses from certain quarters in the wake of the Hobby Lobby decision one could conclude the SCOTUS codified the right of a private employer to compel certain religious observations by their employees. This is false. Let’s...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 7, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources, In The News
We have all heard the happy talk since the July jobs report rolled out last week. Job growth beat expectations! (As if expectations have been even halfway right for the last six years). There were 288,000 new jobs created in June. Unemployment fell to its...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 5, 2014 | Blog, Human Resources
If you are similar to me, you probably start your day checking your voicemail and email and then responding to those in order of importance. This can take 10 minutes or an hour, but it is a ritual. Ron Friedman, Ph.D., the founder of ignite80 has a different...
by Chris Schrader | Jul 4, 2014 | Blog, In The News
The words of Thomas Jefferson found in the Declaration of Independence never fail to stir my heart. So perfect was his work that the Committee of Five (among them Ben Franklin and Sam Adams) changed only 2 words. Jefferson then had to sit through editing by members...
