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Employers can not fire employees for having tattoos unless it is in their handbook. If one individual is asked to cover them, then all must employees must do the same.

This article explains why companies should not completely restrict their employees from using the internet for their own personal use. Some employees use the internet at work to do quick shopping or reply to an email, and then get back to work.

Employers in California and nationwide are legally able to test for drug use in employees and prospective employees. But there are privacy restrictions.

Employees from entry-level to top executive have tattoos ever since tattoos moved into mainstream society. In some instances, banning tattoos completely can violate the law. However, for most a well placed tattoo that can be easily hidden doesn't cause a problem

Employees from entry-level to top executive have tattoos ever since tattoos moved into mainstream society. In some instances, banning tattoos completely can violate the law. However, for most a well placed tattoo that can be easily hidden doesn't cause a problem

The president of Ikea U.S., recently described how important parental leave is to their employees. As they are a home store, he wants all of his employees to have plenty of time to set their home up to bring home their baby girl or boy with no stress. The company has a strong belief against inequity. Whether you are a male or female, homosexual or heterosexual, adoptive parents, or biological parents, the business provides the proper leave everyone deserves.

Forbes reports that the US is the only advanced economy not forced to provide workers with paid vacation time. Compared to other countries, the US is incredibly greedy when it comes to compensating their workers. Paid vacation is essential for the mental and physical health of hard working employees.

Forbes reports that the US is the only advanced economy not forced to provide workers with paid vacation time. Compared to other countries, the US is incredibly greedy when it comes to compensating their workers. Paid vacation is essential for the mental and physical health of hard working employees.

The number of employers whom use social media to not only hire candidates but also to monitor employees is on a rise. According to the Sunshine the National Labor Relations Board has now approved the use of social network findings to terminate or reprimand an employee. Fortunately, some employers hire employees from there findings however the majority of findings are used to omit the candidate.

Covers the rights of employees and job applicants in the US in having equality in the workplace. Several types of discrimination are discussed, such as age, race, origin, and sex. Also shows steps to take if you feel you have been discriminated by an employer.

Christos Makridis, the author of this article, through his research has discovered that raising the minimum wage does not improve the issue of inequality in America, but that it has a negative impact on the workers it attempts to help. The author explains this negative impact by giving examples such as employers reducing hours which causes a lack of skill development due to lack of hours, also employers will not be able to have many incentives for new employees. The author suggested ways for reducing inequality in the latter half of his article by giving business more freedom in determining the wages and that businesses would educate their employees in an effort to increase their profitability and thus raising the wages of their employees.

This article clarifies the new mandate for contraception. The mandate states that employers cover contraception at no additional cost to the employee. The article also covers the lawsuits filed by companies with religious objections to the mandate.

A federal judge ruled in favor of a lumber company who opposed providing contraceptive coverage to employees on the grounds that it violated the companies religious beliefs. The article details an example of a for-profit company winning an exemption.

One of the central provisions of President Barack Obama and the Democrats' healthcare reform law, known popularly as Obamacare, took effect on 1 October. Here is an explainer.

Obamacare was created to help American citizens receive affordable health care. It provides employees with health care they might not of had. The law aims to help the rising cost of health care.

The supreme court ruled that ceos of large corporations can deny their female employees birth control. Ceos have the right to deny women birth control because of their own personal beliefs. Many women have struggled to afford birth control.

According to the author more than half of employers are not using credit checks to determine the worthiness of there potential employees. People argue however that this is not an accurate assumption of what a person is capable of doing and should not be allowed to be used as a hiring tool. More state join together to ban the use of credit checks when hiring an employee.

This site goes over employee's rights. It outlines the rules of forming a union.

This site goes over employee's rights. It outlines the rules of forming a union.

This article discusses whether or not depression should be treated as a legitimate disability. Because of the complexity of depression, even people that are undergoing treatment struggle to be a good employee, and in certain cases, are even fired from their jobs because of poor performance that they had no control of.

Work places tend to discriminate particularly older employees by preferring younger workers. This is a social injustice because a person shouldn't have to lose their job or have a harder time finding a job because a company prefers a younger workforce.

Companies are figuring out that employees are filling up their hard drives with internet games. These games are causing their work computers to have less space and not have enough room for work-related content.Monitoring their employees will eliminate the downloading of games and illegal music.

Rather, they are organizations made up of groups of individuals (including traditional employees, temporary employees, and even contractors) who seek to advocate for worker rights and social justice issues in the 21st century workplace.

This seems like a good organization, specially since there are some employers who take advantage of their works.

Recently there's exploded huge controversies surrounding the IRS. Reportedly, a group of IRS employees targeted conservatives. Also, there are tons of reports on the misspending of American tax dollars