Can Being A Trump Supporter Get You Fired Or Not Hired?
With a polarized political environment unlike anything in recent memory, many Americans wonder if they can be penalized by an employer for political speech. First Amendment guarantees of freedom of speech center More...
Three Ways to Improve Employee Satisfaction and Engagement
Ensuring that your employees are satisfied is absolutely crucial to the successful running of your business. At the very core of your company, employees are the ones who communicate with customers, look after a More...
Treasury official, Natalie Edwards, aka May Edwards, charged with leaking financial documents to BuzzFeed during Russian probe
A Treasury Department official was arrested and charged with disclosing to a reporter information about sensitive financial transactions related to the Russia investigation, the latest move in the Justice Department’s More...
What Is Contractor Management?
It is no secret that using independent contractors can help you to be effective in your business. For starters, the contractor is already established in their field. They have the necessary expertise to get things More...
Trump to freeze non-military federal raises
President Trump repeated his call for lawmakers to freeze the salaries of 2 million federal employees in 2019 Thursday, even threatening to use his executive powers to do so. Trump’s pay freeze doesn’t apply More...
Thinking of outsourcing HR? Here’s why that’s a good idea
When it comes to a fully functioning HR team, it’s often difficult for new companies and startups to operate at the pace of a long-established business. For many small and growing businesses, hiring for HR is More...
How to get out of a career rut
At the start of a career, especially one that involves a steep learning curve, most people experience a sensation of constant forward movement. However, a few years into the job, once you have mastered all that More...
Understanding the Requirements for Meal and Rest Break Labor Laws in California
Even though the state of California enacted the meal and break laws in 2000, many employers still struggle to comprehend them. Some of the nagging questions were answered during the Brinker Restaurant Corp. v. Superior More...
Reasons to Consider a Digital Marketing Career
For those who are looking to reinvent themselves professionally, there has never been a better time to pursue a career in digital marketing. With business all over the world moving online, the world of advertising More...
Four Common Mistakes Millennials Make During Job Interviews (and How to Avoid Them)
If you’re a millennial job-hunter, you’re probably annoyed to no end with stereotypes surrounding your generation. After all, words like “lazy” and “entitled” are not want you want attached to More...
5 Reasons Why Hiring Freelancers Makes Good Business Sense
With economic uncertainty, a small startup or entrepreneur may be very concerned about hiring the talent you need to get the business off the ground. The one popular choice is hiring freelancers. As the Freelancers’ More...
How to boost your career
Your job takes up a huge section of your lifetime, so if you are stuck in a job that you don’t like, it is time to take some action. Whether you can’t stand your boss or you are having sleepless nights thinking More...
The Trump administration’s letter on their ‘hiring freeze’ to cut positions through attrition
President Trump has been busy with executive orders and now a released memo confirms a federal hiring freeze, check out the details below. MEMORANDUM FOR THE HEADS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES SUBJECT: More...
Taylor Swift, Kanye West ‘star’ in new billboards attacking $15 minimum wage
The Employment Policies Institute (EPI) put up a new billboard on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles that uses images of Taylor Swift and Kanye West. The billboard highlights how high state and city minimum wages in More...
2016 Employee Engagement Trends
Employee engagement trends are changing, especially since the Internet now allows employees to really vent about their experiences with an organization and put the information out there for other workers to see. More...
Can Employee Training Help Close The Skills Gap?
If the last few years have shown businesses anything, it is that good staff are becoming ever harder to find. As major economies, such as the United States, have recovered from the financial crisis, employment rates More...
Judge rules that Illinois budget crisis will result in state employees not being paid
While Illinois’ Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner battles Democrats, who control the Legislature, to approve a budget, the state may not continue to pay state workers in full, according a Cook County ruling today. Attorney More...
Federal employee hack reveals social security numbers not encrypted
Government officials are now detailing the magnitude of the December 2014 cyber attack which leaked personal information of atleast four million federal employees. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) did More...
Elijah Cummings says federal workers come to ‘feed their souls’
While fighting to get Federal employees raises, one rep made the role of the federal worker sound awfully “altruistic.” Rep. Elijah Cummings (D–Md.) says, “so many people come to government knowing More...
Fed employees use over $1 million in charity donations for meals, massages and Vegas trip
A government audit found several federal workers and a contractor guilty of using over $1 million of charity money for personal use including massages and elaborate meals. photo/Revisorweb Referring to themselves More...
