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Hiring Practices
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Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Court Oks “Firing” a Not Yet Hired “Employee”
"You're hired. No wait, you're fired." That's essentially what happened in the case of Petitte v. DSL.net, a decision recently handed down by the Connecticut Appellate Court. The Appeals Court…
White Collar Crime Prof Blog
DOJ Civil Rights Division Hiring
By Ellen Podgor
According to Jason McClure of the Legal Times (Law.Com) a focus this week of the DOJ "firings" investigation will be the hiring practices in the civil rights division. A hearing…
ImmigrationProf Blog
Wrestling News? Truth or Parody?
The Onion (here) reports that, in response to criticism over World Wrestling Entertainment hiring policies, World Wrestling Entertainment Chairman Vince McMahon defended the league's reliance on Mexican wrestlers as "the…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Need a Job? Just Complete This Algorithm
You gotta hand it to the people at Google for their unbelievable technological innovations that have literally changed the face of the internet.Well, Google has now brought some of that…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Barnes on Geezers Need Not Apply
Pat Barnes has sent us her interesting piece on age discrimination in attorney hiring that appeared in the National Law Journal this past September. Here's a snippet:Anyone who is over…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Treating Job Candidates Respectfully
In a fitting prelude to the post-meat-market callback season, Joann Lublin writes in the Wall Street Journal on the importance of using the job interview to sell the candidate on…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Recently-Published Articles
ArticlesJohn E. Matejkovic (top left) & Margaret E. Matejkovic (top right), Whom to Hire: Rampant Misrepresentations of Credentials Mandate the Prudent Employer Make Informed Hiring Decisions, Creighton L. Rev. 827…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Is Microsoft Having Trouble Attracting and Retaining Employees?
According to this article from CNNMoney.com, it is. And perhaps for a number rof reasons, some of its own making and some beyond its control. The article references a report…
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Remember, David beat Goliath, not the other way around
By Patrick Lamb
Nice posts by Tom Kane and Dan Hull about a topic close to my heart. Both talk about the fact that GCs do, in fact, hire smaller law firms. I…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Report on Gender Discrimination at the Univ. of California
Recent study shows UC discriminates in hiring female faculty: UCD sociology Professor says more factors are at play (by Mellissa B. Taddei, The California Aggie) "Following the 1996 passage of…