The Word on Employment Law with John Phillips
A blawg about legal issues affecting the workplace.
Author: John B. Phillips is of counsel at Miller Martin in Chattanooga, Tenn., and he is the author of Employment Law Desk Book for Tennessee Employers.
Blawg Related Categories: Labor & Employment
Recent Posts from The Word on Employment Law with John Phillips
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Fighting in the Workplace
With or without a written policy, fighting in the workplace is taboo. Many employers do have written policies about fighting. Some policies call for the automatic termination of anyone engaged in a fight. In other words,…
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Same Words Don’t Mean Same Thing
Check out a post by Execupundit on how we will talk to each other using the same words without meaning the same thing. Michael Wade gives a great example about “equal opportunity.” The art of talking past or…
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Work Hard — HR Song of the Week
Depeche Mode, an English electronic band of the 1980’s, introduces a dose (maybe an overdose) of reality into the workplace. “You got to work hard. . . . If you want anything at all. . . . Nothing comes…
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The Sensitive Nose of HR
When the serial rapist and registered sex offender was recently arrested in Cleveland and found to have had, so far, eleven decaying female bodies in his house, it was immediately said that someone should have noticed. The stench coming…
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Making the Best of Apparent Failure
Cultural Offering has five terrific tips for what you should do when things don’t go well. One usually has to pay for advice like this.
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Anthem of Anonymity
All workers want to be noticed. But alas, some are doomed to go unnoticed. They now have an anthem to be sung and shared and sobbed.
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H1N1 Workplace Policy: Go to Work
As the New York Times notes, some employees find themselves between a rock and a hard place when it comes to dealing with the Swine Flu. The CDC encourages employers “to develop nonpunitive leave policies”…
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Office Gossip: Bloodless Violence
A New York Times headline asks a question that doesn’t beg itself: “Can you believe how mean office gossip can be?” The article underneath compares the gossip of adolescents (it’s much meaner) with that of office…
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Priestley on a Good Holiday
We’re told we need to wisely use the time we have off from work. J. B. Priestley, English novelist, playwright and broadcaster, says it a little differently, and I think he has it right. “A good…
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Letterman Policy Provides Another Laugh
When I did my earlier posts (here and here) on the recent disclosure of Dave Letterman’s Man Gene shenanigans, I poked fun at the lame denial by Letterman’s employer, Worldwide Pants, Inc., that Letterman hadn’t violated any workplace policies.…