According to an internal memo that was sent to Valleywag, Yahoo will be closing operations the week between Christmas and New Years in order to reduce their vacation liability. Closing that week isn’t too unusual in the Valley - during Web 1.0, it was common practice. What seems to be different here [...]
From SHRM:
California: Noncompete agreements have no place in employment contracts
By Ronda Jamgotchian, September 2006
[From the SHRM Online Workplace Law Focus Area: California]
The Second District Court of Appeal in Los Angeles issued a significant opinion at the end of August, finding that noncompete agreements in California employment contracts are impermissible. The court explicitly rejected decades of [...]
As I discussed in an earlier post, the Guvernator signed the bill raising the minimum wage to $8.00 per hour over the next year and a half. Yet another reason for the rest of the country to look at us in California and scratch their collective heads. Don’t get me wrong, it’s a [...]
Seth Godin has a really interesting post on the interview process from the interviewer’s point of view.
I really enjoyed this post, as it’s another way to look at finding the right person for the job. I particularly like his comparison to marriage: “Would you marry someone based on a one hour interview [...]
Wow, the Radio Shack thing really got people thinking about other really bad ways to term employees. This article lists a few. Some of these would be amusing but for the fact that these situations really happened and real people were involved.
Some “ideas” include firing someone by voicemail, leaving a new org chart [...]
Michael Noer, columnist for Forbes.com had this to say in a recent column about Careers and Marriage. It was later turned in a point/counterpoint due to the outrage it caused.
After reading this, I was at a loss for words. Luckily, the Huffington Post was not.
(Thanks to HR Strange But True for the tip)
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