OUR PARTNERS:      HRHERO    ECN    MLEESMITH    Help
     Wednesday, January 07, 2009 - Updated 05:31am CST    
That's what she said  Employment Law Post    

Archive for February, 2007

Dwight on SNL

February 23, 2007 at 1:08 pm by: Julie Elgar

Dwight Schrute (Rainn Wilson) is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. I’m looking forward to watching it. I’ll post early next week if there’s anything on the show that relates to the blog.

Cocktails

February 23, 2007 at 12:49 am by: Julie Elgar

LITIGATION VALUE: $75,000
Nothing says “I love you” quite like a detailed legal contract acknowledging that you were neither coerced nor were promises made to entice you into entering into a relationship with your boss, and if the woman of your dreams becomes a nightmare, that you won’t sue your employer. Yes, love contracts actually [...]

“Business School”

February 15, 2007 at 11:16 pm by: Julie Elgar

LITIGATION VALUE: $30,000 (But it could have been much higher)
“Business is always personal” is probably not the best motto for a manager. It could lead them to act impulsively. Like, say, moving an employee’s desk from the front of the office to an “annex” inhabited by the employee’s chatty, fashion-crazed, quasi (ex?) girlfriend as a [...]

Phyllis and Bob’s Wedding

February 8, 2007 at 11:44 pm by: Julie Elgar

LITIGATION VALUE: $ 0.00
First off, let’s hear it for the HR Hero in last night’s episode. As he put it, “Toby, yeah!” I’m not sure what is going to happen with that story line, but it can’t be good that Hollywood thinks it’s funny for the HR manager to land an attractive [...]

“Ben Franklin”

February 1, 2007 at 9:54 pm by: Julie Elgar

LITIGATION VALUE: $800,000+
If an executive learns that a regional manager has sponsored a bachelor party in the warehouse, hired a stripper, offered to “deflower” the bride, taken an employee to a sex store, received a lap dance, and allowed a pervert dressed up like Benjamin Franklin to make a lewd statement to the receptionist, [...]