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Fall  2010
Edition

Fall Seminars, Workshops Challenge Hospitality HR Directors
HR: Time to Get into Shape!

Fall 2010 brings terrific opportunities for hospitality HR directors to sharpen skills and share ideas.  Here are just a few of your available options.

Disneyland restaurant employee appeals to the camera over uniform issue
Lights, Camera — Ambush!

With help from her lawyer, a videographer and the Los Angeles HERE union a Southern California woman discusses her wish to wear a headscarf while at work at “the happiest place on earth”. 

 

Read the article in the Los Angeles Times

Social Network “Research” on Job Candidates: Worth the Risk?

 

The development and burgeoning growth of internet social networking have caused many people to be far less careful about revealing details of their personal lives for everyone to view.  Aside from risking identify theft candid discussions online leave us open to the possibility that less well known aspects of our personal lives will be viewed by employers. 

 

Despite mounting evidence that online employer searches could violate the law, and at the very least are ethically challenging, HR staffs nevertheless face a dilemma in deciding whether or not to use the power of the Internet to search, free of charge, for details that an employee or job applicant may not have revealed. 

 

The question we should be asking says one writer, is “what’s the purpose of our search?”  For the answer Sharlyn Lauby, in an article for Mashable pens a good review of the issues. 

 

Read her comments, and get the viewpoints of the employer, the lawyer and the Internet technologist in the article here

Four States Push Anti-EFCA Measures

Legislatures in four states including Republican-controlled Arizona have decided to pursue their own laws that would effectively block elements of the Employee Free Choice Act from becoming should the measure eventually be approved in Congress.

 

Predictably organized labor isn’t happy, with one official decrying how companies have allegedly made union organizing an unpleasant undertaking.  “Employers have turned it into such an adversarial process,” said Bill Samuel, government affairs director for the AFL-CIO in an interview with Business Week writer Jonathan Cooper.

 

Learn what other states are doing in the article here

Cafeteria Plan Compliance Issues Need Attention Now

 

Labor and employment lawyers Fisher & Phillips LLP remind employers that  cafeteria plans must be amended by December 31, 2010 in order to comply with provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.  More

 

 

HR, What’s Your Document Retention Policy?

 

Davis & Gilbert LLP say recent court decisions highlight  the importance of a strong document retention policy.  More

 

 

California:  Arbitration Awards Can Be Overturned?

 

We missed this May 2010 article from the employment and labor practice at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher concerning judicial review of arbitration awards.  It is important reading.    More

 

 

Internships Not “Free Labor”

 

From employment and labor attorneys Jackson Lewis LLP, an important discussion of  how the law protects interns whose work may not always be compensated.  More

 

 

FMLA “Accommodation” Discussions:  Guidelines from Labor Counsel

 

Richard Rosenberg, partner at management-side lawyers Ballard Rosenberg Golper & Savitt LLP discusses the critical importance of setting clear guidelines when discussing accommodations available to employees pursuant to Federal and state laws.  More

The Recession and Changing Attitudes in “Generation Y”

 

Generation Y, the youthful group between 18 and 30, still want “an environmentally aware workplace” but may have “swallowed a piece of humble pie” according to an article appearing in the Miami Herald. 

 

What does this mean for hospitality employers, many of whose employees fit squarely into the Generation Y category?  Read the story here

Bullying:  Two Different Perspectives

 

The recent and very public “exit” by flight attendant Steven Slater stands in stark contrast to the shootings by Omar Thornton that left eight dead.

 

What they share in common is that they were allegedly fueled by workplace bullying. 

 

Decide for yourself after reading the story here

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