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Slidecast: The NLRB’s “Ambush Election” Rule and Other Pro-Union Activities
In this month’s Legal & Regulatory Podcast for the Austin Human Resource Management Association, I visited with Chris Bourgeacq, an employment law attorney with AT&T, about the recent pro-union actvities initiated by the National Labor Relations Board. Chris will be the host of the AHRMA Legal and Regulatory Roundtable on this topic during their May ...
Slides and Notes for my EEOC Criminal History Guidance Webinar Now Available
After conducting three webinars about the EEOC’s April 25th guidance document and trading innumerable emails and phone calls with clients, friends, and colleagues, I’m finally at a place where I feel comfortable releasing the Gospel According to Coffey on this topic – which is to say that I’ve mixed a lot of fact and some ...
The New EEOC Guidance: The Sky Isn’t Falling
On April 25th, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission issued new “enforcement guidance on the consideration of arrest and conviction records in employment decisions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.” This is the first guidance on this topic issued by the EEOC in more than 20 years. It reflects the EEOC’s recent litigation ...
Second EEOC Guidance Webinar Added
The new but as yet unpublished EEOC enforcement guidance is getting a lot of attention. So much so that we’ve added a second webinar to review the guidance once it is published. I discussed with attorneys and HR pros what may be included at the Fort Worth Human Resource Employment Law Update yesterday. The responses ranged ...
from BadHireDays.com
- Video: Sears sends felon and stalker into woman’s home November 7, 2011Jason Meinke was employed by a Sears contractor and sent into homes to clean ducts despite his criminal history that included misdemeanor and felony convictions, including a felony aggravated stalking conviction. When he was sent to clean Carrie Smith’s air ducts, she says her nightmare started, as reported by Scott Lewis of Detroit ABC affiliate WXYZ […]
- Fake Degree Precedes $1 Million Fraud September 25, 2011Not all bad hire days start with previously-convicted dishonest job seekers. Morgan County, Utah apparently thought they were hiring a qualified public administration expert when they hired Garth Day as their council administrator. According to the Standard-Examiner, Day’s 2008 resume reflected that he had a Bachelor of Science degree in political science/pu […]
- Bad Background Check and Lax Credit Card and Expense Account Controls Lead to Embezzlement September 10, 2011In my presentations to SHRM chapters, churches and non-profits, and basically anyone who needs a good nap after lunch, I regularly warn that even great background checks typically only catch the low-hanging fruit (those whose past offenses have been discovered by employers or law enforcement) and it is important to to have all of your […]
- Two Employers, Two Victims, Two Convictions for Computer “Guru” August 29, 2011Stephen Robertson, a self-described computer “guru”, could be the poster boy for Bad Hire Days. Robertson worked for Corgan Associates, a Dallas architecture and interior design firm, and was terminated on December 18, 1998 for “theft, dishonesty, and misuse of the company’s computer system to hack into other companies’ computers,” according to documents fil […]
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