A recent Supreme Court case now has a new element of confusion. More…

Warnings about bad documentation often involve high-tech situations — for example, watch what you e-mail, since it creates a permanent record. But managers need to be careful of how they handle more primitive documents, too. More…

An employee insists he got demoted because of his disability.  His boss says it was all about performance, not disability. Who won this real-life legal case? More…

Ever since the ADA Amendments Act got passed in January, employers and HR managers have been asking, “So, what does all this mean?” The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has finally gotten around to giving some answers. More…

When does attempting to recruit a diverse group of applicants cross the line and become illegal discrimination? More…

It’s a constant challenge for employers: Offering the benefits and incentives that employees desire without running into compliance problems with the feds. More…

When IT finds someone’s been browsing offensive Web sites on a work computer, you’d normally fire the employee. But what happens when it’s a computer several employees share? More…

In the last 10 years, women’s wages, as a percentage of men’s, have increased in most age groups, but women in some groups have done better than others. More…

Not all sexual harassment claims are alike. But managers still need to take them seriously, even if they don’t fit the expected pattern. More…

Words are tricky — sometimes an employee will interpret a manager’s comments in a way the supervisor never intended. Take this scenario, based on a real-life court case: More…