Can You Be Legally Fired for Dating a Coworker?
Relationships in the workplace are on the rise. Recent research from the Discovery Health Channel suggests that nearly half of modern professionals now meet their future spouses at work and over 80% of professionals below the age of 30 were found to have no problem with the idea of dating their coworkers. This makes perfect […]
Have Your Employee Rights Been Violated? Part 2: Fair Work and HR Violations
Over the course of a long and interesting career, most people will have a wide variety of bosses and employers. Some are incredibly hands-off and prefer for teams to handle everything independently while others micro-manage compulsively. Some employers let their staff decorate their desks up to the point of actually bedazzling them while others are […]
Have Your Employee Rights Been Violated? – Part 1: Workplace Discrimination
Businesses have always done whatever they can to improve efficiency, performance, and bring down overhead. While these goals like perfectly normal and acceptable business practices, it also linked directly to a long history of taking advantage of and even abusing employees in order to achieve these goals. We’re not saying that every employer is a […]
Are You Vulnerable to Investment Fraud?
People who get bilked by investor fraud have certain common characteristics, according to recent studies. The American Association of Retired People (AARP) Fraud Watch Network completed a survey in 2016, looking at the demographics of fraud victims. Previous surveys have found that investment fraud victims are better educated, financially literate males, usually older than average […]