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Rubio Aide: Some American Workers 'Can't Cut It' -- True or False?

Some American workers "can't cut it."** That's what an unnamed aide to Sen. Marco Rubio told the

Won't hire convicted criminals? Uncle Sam might have a problem with that

If you've got a policy against hiring anyone with a criminal record, you better review guidelines issued by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. ...

Sexual Intercourse While Swinging From A Motel Chandelier: Employer Held Liable For Injuries Sustained

A female employee traveling for her employer met a “friend” and at her motel room with him became “injured whilst engaging in sexual interc...

DHS Announces Re-designation and 18-Month Extension of Temporary Protected Status for Syria

WASHINGTON—Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano has re-designated Syria for Temporary Protected Status (TPS) and extended the existing TPS d...

EEOC Files Suit Against Two Employers for Use of Criminal Background Checks

BMW Fired and Denied Hire to Class of Employees Who Worked Successfully for Years; Dollar General Disproportionately Excluded African Americans From Hire ...

Gregory Jackson, Rutgers Chief of Staff facing discrimination Lawsuit.

In early April, as the Rutgers president, Robert L. Barchi, was working to defuse a coaching abuse scandal, he named Gregory S. Jackson, a university adminis...

Striking Fast-Food and Walmart Workers As Stimulus

Workers striking at fast-food restaurants and Walmart stores around the country are seeking more than better wages and working conditions for themselves. The...

Bread Winner Moms: Mothers are now the sole or primary provider in 40% of households with children

Breadwinner Moms : Mothers Are the Sole or Primary Provider in Four-in-Ten Households with Children; Public Conflicted about the Growing Trend Chapter 1:...

WHO : New MERS Like Virus is a Threat to the Entire World

In a speech this week, Margaret Chan, the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) warned that the newly named Middle East respiratory syndrom...

Record Share of New Mothers are College Educated

Long-Term Trend Accelerates Since Recession Overview Mothers with infant children1 in the U.S. today are more educated than they ever have been. In 2...

Employers lack confidence, not skilled labor

Are we missing a couple million jobs? These would be jobs that exist but lack workers to fill them. The notion that the recovery is being hobbled by too few ...

House bill pushes to protect employees' Facebook passwords from employers

Dozens of House lawmakers joined together on Wednesday to introduce legislation that would bar employers from asking for their workers' passwords to Face...

Apple avoids billions in taxes by using offshore accounts

An investigation found that the company has created a web of offshore entities to avoid paying billions of dollars in U.S. taxes. Apple Inc. has created ...

Jaron Lanier: The Internet destroyed the middle class

Kodak employed 140,000 people. Instagram, 13. A digital visionary says the Web kills jobs, wealth -- even democracy Jaron Lanier is a computer science pi...

Green card lottery could soon be eliminated

Washington: In the contentious debate over immigration policy, three groups have dominated public and political attention: the roughly 11 million undocumente...

Sign on a church billboard – Don’t be too open minded, your brain might fall off

As of late I seem to get the inspiration for our blog posts from the local signs on churches of all denominations. The other day I passed one that said “Don’t be too open minded, your brain might fall out.” Really is that what they meant to say?

Hirecentrix - Knowledge Base

Still Willing To Have Unpaid Interns?

John E. Thompson

We have repeatedly cautioned that employers who are prepared to take on unpaid interns should enter into these arrangements with their eyes fully open. New developments emphasize this yet again.

5 Tips for More Efficient Recruiting

Erica L. Fener, Ph.D

Generating a solid set of sources, techniques, and people to generate job candidates is a great beginning for the recruiting process. Developing a stellar recruiting team is just as important as locating stellar candidates, however, and better recruiting skills lead to more efficient hiring.

Being CEO for a day

Kimberly Roden

If I had the opportunity to be the CEO for a day, I’d tell the entire organization to forget everything they know, have experienced or have been told about Human Resources. We’re going to focus on one thing — making work better! Making the employment experience what it’s supposed to be: mutually beneficial.

The Fastest Way to Make a Placement

Bill Radin

(Hint: It's Spelled E - I - O)

The other day, a recruiter told me she needed to make a placement NOW.

She had an existing job order, plus a candidate she was ready to present her client. However, she was getting bogged down with the resume routine: Submit. Wait. Get feedback.

Did I have any suggestions?

Facebook posts as evidence of retaliation

Jon Hyman

I’ve written before about the dangers of employers accessing employee’s social media accounts without appropriate controls in place. One of the biggest risks is that an employer will learn some protected fact about an employee (e.g., medical information) that could lead to an inference of a discriminatory motive if that employee later suffers some adverse action.