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performance management
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SDNY Blog
Judge Francis Recommends Denying Class Certification in Goldman Gender Bias Case
On Tuesday, Magistrate Judge Francis issued a Report and Recommendation to Judge Torres in which he recommended denying class certification in a gender bias case against Goldman Sachs. The plaintiffs…
Law and the Workplace
In The Eleventh Circut, Employers Can Terminate “Protected” Employees For Poor Performance And Violation Of Company Policy
By Allan Weitzman, Jurate Schwartz
On December 4, 2014, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit upheld summary judgment in favor of an employer against a pregnant employee who had requested FMLA, who…
The CPA Desk
Using Balanced Score Cards for Your Business
By PKF Texas
https://youtu.be/m42H1QKZUeM?list=PLj4c-lRlrkyDj_1AMJvf9LuJ6mej435fG Byron: Hi my name is Byron Herbert, and this is another Tool Time update brought to you by your friends at PKF Texas and the Entrepreneur's Playbook. Today…
Food Safety News
New FSIS Salmonella Performance Standards for Beef and Poultry Expected
By News Desk
A top official with USDA’s Food Safety and inspection Service (FSIS) told a meat industry conference that ended Sunday in Charleston, SC, to expect new performance standards for Salmonella. Rachel…
HR Law Talk
Proper Tone In Performance Management – Be an Andy, Not a Barney
To Andy Griffith Show aficionados, Andy was a true leader. Barney? Well, not so much. Why? Barney thought his job was to enforce rules, that any infraction had to be punished, that only…
Marketing Brain Fodder
Before Benchmarks Define Direction, Be Certain To Measure What Matters: Reprising a TEDx Talk
We measure everything. The length and weight of a newborn. The speed of an eleven year old’s fast ball. IQ and EQ. And complex algorithms measure everything from personality type…
Labor & Employment Report
New Performance Standards Could Be Pretext for Discrimination
By Fiona W. Ong
In our troubled economic times, many employers have focused on making their workforce leaner and more efficient. This frequently involves raising performance standards for employees. But it is important to…
Minnesota Employer
Stacked Employee Ratings: Emerging Legal Pros and Cons
By Neal Buethe
In HR circles, there has been a growing discussion of “stacked employee ratings” by which management determines pre-set percentages of employees to be rated in the categories of “excellent,” “good,”…
Workforce Bulletin
Bell-Curve Rankings In at Yahoo
By Epstein Becker Green, Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
By Nancy L. Gunzenhauser and Jeffrey M. Landes It’s performance review season…meaning reports of various performance review systems are making headlines for employers. In a recent survey by OnForce, former…
Global Workplace Insider
Hope for employers seeking to manage performance issues
Where an employer unilaterally fundamentally or substantially changes the terms and conditions of employment, it is possible that an employee will raise an allegation of constructive dismissal, seeking notice and…