What is flextime?
As companies around the country start adopting flextime many employees are wondering what exactly are the advantages and disadvantages of having flextime in the workplace.
Exempt or Non-Exempt – Clarifying Employee Status
With the new federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) changes on the horizon for exempt employees, millions of employees are wondering just what makes an employee exempt or non-exempt.
Reasonable Accommodations and Workers with Disabilities
Federal law, such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, prohibits covered employers from engaging in disability discrimination against their workers. It also puts certain additional requirements on employers. One of these is the reasonable accommodation requirement.
Who gets age discrimination protection under Texas and federal law?
There are many different protections the law affords employees. Among these are bans on various types of workplace discrimination.
Workplace Religious Discrimination and the Health Care Industry
Sadly, workplace discrimination has the potential to occur in any industry. This includes the health care industry. A survey indicates that one type of such discrimination that might be a particularly big problem in the health care industry in North America is religious discrimination against Muslim doctors.
When is shift assignment favoritism illegal discrimination?
A worker can be greatly impacted by what shift assignments they are given. Thus, it can be very disheartening for a worker when their employer shows favoritism to other employees in shift assignments, leaving them with less desirable shifts.
Protect yourself! The biggest mistakes that employees make
The biggest mistake employees make in the workplace when they are having problems at work is their failure to report or complain about it.