A flurry of lawsuits over botched severance agreements has prompted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to issue a guide that can help keep employers out of trouble. More…
We occasionally report workplace behavior that’s so odd that it sounds made up. Except it’s not. Today’s story: A company fires a single mother after she stays home a day to care for a child with a contagious disease. And it’s even worse than it sounds. More…
An employee gets fired and sues, saying he was previously praised in public by his supervisor and promised continued employment. Read the dramatized version of this real-life case and see if you can determine the actual outcome. More…
Your toughest task may come when you have to fire someone. Your second-toughest task may come after the firing, when you have to deal with the ripple effects of the firing. More…
An employee exceeds his allowable sick leave and gets a last-chance warning about missing any more days. Then he contracts a contagious illness that prevents him from coming in. Now what? Read this dramatized real-life case and see if you can decide who won when the employer fired the worker, who sued for wrongful discharge. More…
Don’t ditch the paperwork for the federally mandated COBRA subsidy program just yet. The subsidy’s just been extended, and it has a new wrinkle. More…
Managers in your company may have had problems with employees focused on fantasy football leagues during time they should’ve spent working. But have any been fired just for belonging to a fantasy league? More…
Some of the most expensive discrimination cases against employers in the last year resulted from managers who said the wrong thing at the wrong time — remarks that carried more weight than even the best documentation. More…
Plenty of people have been fired for surfing the Web — usually it involves porn sites. This case is different, and far more controversial. More…
A lawyer who got fired by his firm is gaining a measure of revenge by running a Web site in which he refers to his boss as “a used-car salesman with a law degree.” It gets even better than that. More…
