Winning Work Teams Blog

As we first reported on our June 6, 2010 posting Wal-Mart has its hands full defending the mega gender-discrimination class action law suit  (Dukes v. Wal-Mart)  filed by women against the giant retailer.  The gist of the allegations are that Wal-Mart engaged in unfavorable discriminatory promotional and pay practices which resulted in...

As strategic Orlando Human Resurces consultants we continue to see many companies operating without an employee handbook. Or, operating using a handbook cobbled together using outdated or irrelevant  source material. In today’s highly litigious employment environment, these are risky practices opening the company to needless exposure which can result in...

We’re about to see how far companies can go when attempting to control what their employees can say about them in cyberspace.  And, for the Facebook generation, the implications are enormous. The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”)–which we often think merely regulates the world of labor unions–has charged a company with unlawful activity...