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I’m sure many of you have noticed the ongoing nods on this site to Laughing Squid for content that he provided or the via credits. Well, this an unabashed post to garner votes for this wonderful site which has been nominated for a Webby Award.
From Laughing Squid:
The 12th Annual Webby Awards have [...]

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Posted by Lori Dorn on August 23rd, 2006

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More OT Woes

Posted by Lori Dorn on January 24th, 2006

That nasty wage and hour thing just doesn’t seem to go away.
(01-24) 17:40 PST San Francisco (AP) –
International Business Machines Corp. was sued in federal court Tuesday for allegedly not paying overtime to tens of thousands of rank-and-file employees.
The suit was filed in U.S. District Court on behalf of three current and former workers, and [...]

When Will They Ever Learn?

Posted by Lori Dorn on October 2nd, 2005

A friend of mine contacted me and told me that he applied for a job. Part of the application process included filling out a questionaire which asked a number of questions around faith. He was told that he was not being hired for the position due to the fact that they felt he [...]

A New Look

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 9th, 2005

The old template just wasn’t cutting it, so I gave it the proverbial axe.
So waddaya think about the new look?

Blog Searching

Posted by Lori Dorn on July 6th, 2005

A question came up on an HR discussion list I’m on. The poster asked how she could find out if an employee is “bashing” the company on an online blog. Several different answers came up, such as searching Google and others talked about other employees coming forward. It suddently occurred to me [...]

Catching Up

Posted by Lori Dorn on June 16th, 2005

When I started this blog, I thought I’d be writing every day since there is no shortage of California HR in my daily life. I’m now looking shamefully at the date of the last post and realize that I haven’t posted for two whole weeks. It’s amazing how time gets away.
Back to business [...]

Was It Something We Said?

Posted by Lori Dorn on June 1st, 2005

The one thing that HR professionals encounter, whether in California or not, is the need to justify their positions even when it comes to an issue that will help (rather than harm) the organization. Trying to overcome this is an uphill battle. Every HR person knows that there will be decisions that management [...]

Another Side of the ADA

Posted by Lori Dorn on May 11th, 2005

I was browsing through an issue of Fortune Small Business and came across an article about the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) quite by accident as the cover of the magazine advertised “Entrepeneurs (some in wheelchairs) tap the booming market of disabled Americans” which fascinated me as my mother spent a number of years [...]

More Blogging at Work Stuff

Posted by Lori Dorn on April 15th, 2005

Niall Kennedy of Technorati has some good thinks to say in this post. I agree that companies should not restrict employees from blogging on their personal time. I can also appreciate what he says here quite eloquently:
Employers considering a blogging policy are not thinking broadly enough. Employees need to be trained as [...]

Independently Contracting

Posted by Lori Dorn on April 14th, 2005

A very good friend of mine called a few weeks ago asking me to review a contract for her. She works as an independent contractor in website design. I never got to see the contract, but she did tell me that the client was requiring her to be onsite for certain hours every [...]

Alphabet Soup

Posted by Lori Dorn on April 12th, 2005

If you look to the right, you’ll see a string of acronyms that look like a bowl of alphabet soup. DOL, EDD, SHRM, NCHRA, etc. It wouldn’t be too bad if this were it, but you’re an HR professional in California and you know there’s quite a bit more to swallow, particularly when [...]