First Tribune Handbook Violator: Its Creator
Published by James Peters February 6th, 2008 in Policy : Opinion, RetaliationOk, so this topic has been blogged to death by not only me, but the blawgosphere as a whole. However, I just received this update to the story.
Sam Zell, the head of Tribune Co., met with his employees/journalists last week at the Orlando Sentinel, one of the newspapers covered by his idiotic/inspiring (depending on [...]
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The Best Worst Paid Leave Policy Ever
Published by James Peters January 28th, 2008 in Discrimination, Medical LeavesA Reuters story this morning deals with what is both one of the most liberal paid leave policies I have ever seen and also one of the most blatantly discriminatory.
Hime & Company, a Tokyo-based marketing firm, offers paid leave to employees who have a bad breakup, termed “heartache leave”. While this is quite generous and [...]
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Study: Discrimination Policies Poorly Communicated
Published by James Peters January 25th, 2008 in Discrimination, HarassmentA timely study by the Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp) that was released on Tuesday finds that the vast majority of corporations have some sort of formal anti-discrimination policy.
However, failure to adequately communicate such policies is a frequent problem, where only 80% of those companies rate anti-discrimination training “either somewhat or very important”.
This study is [...]
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Our Gobbledygood vs. Their Gobbledygook
Published by James Peters January 23rd, 2008 in Employment Contracts, Policy : OpinionWell, my post about the Los Angeles Times article on their new employee handbook seems to have set off (or at least contributed to) a firestorm throughout the web. Some of the reaction seems off-the-mark, though.
Comments: The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
The overwhelming majority of mail I received is in agreement with my comments [...]
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“Mind-Numbing Lawyer Gobbledygook” Overrated?
Published by James Peters January 19th, 2008 in Discrimination, Employment Contracts, Harassment, Medical Leaves, Policy : OpinionAn article in Thursday’s Los Angeles Times discusses their own parent company, Tribune Co.’s new employee handbook that was introduced by their CEO, Sam Zell, via a recent e-mail to employees.
This caught my eye because it is not every day that a company publicly releases or discusses their employee handbook. In fact, many handbooks [...]
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