The army of anti-worker corporate groups hiring armies of lobbyists and pouring $200 million into defeating the Employee Free Choice Act have devoted most of their time and money to hammering home a single talking point: The bill will eliminate the sacrosanct "secret ballot" now enjoyed by workers d...

Misinformation in customer service is pretty common. It’s probably something you’ve experienced firsthand as well. You call a company and you’re told one thing by one representative. Then you call back a few days later and you’re told that what the first representative told y...

The Employee Free Choice Act is set to be introduced in both chambers today, which will kick off a public relations battle over passage in which corporate special interest groups plan on spending some $200 million to defeat it. Already, the framing wars are underway, with corporate opponents referri...

When starting up a new business, one important consideration is whether or not to hire any employees right away. Most businesses cannot be run by the owner/manager alone, so learning how to find a good first employee is crucial to the initial success of the new company. A good employee can be define...

Matt Yglesias challenges Lisa Schiffren’s assertion that “The doctors, lawyers, engineers, executives, serious small-business owners, top salespeople, and other professionals and entrepreneurs who make this country run work considerably harder than pretty much anyone else (including most...

This downtrodden-looking Eagles' fan is Dan Leone who, up until last week, was a game-day stadium employee at Lincoln Financial Field. Leone was fired after he Facebook-slammed the organization for trading Brian Dawkins. Irascible Philadelphia Inquirer columnist, John Gonzalez, relays Leone's sad-sa...

Employee loyalty is, for many companies, a trait that is difficult to find. If an employee is not satisfied with his or her job or feels unappreciated, he or she will walk; in fact, the average employee in the United States spends just 3 years at one job. High turnover rates can be costly for a comp...

The U.S. House of Representatives sole lesbian member will introduce a bill targeted at providing gay federal employees many of the same rights as their straight co-workers in a domestic partnership bill timed to join up with a matching Senate version of the bill sponsored by Senators Joe Lieberman ...

Understandably, it can be hard to drag yourself into work when all you hear is bad news about the economy. Many workplaces are having morale problems in the wake of — or in anticipation of — layoffs. And it's starting to show in increased employee tardiness. According to a recent poll, 20 percen...

Stoopid People are so stupid that you have to spell it with two O’s because one U just isn’t stupid enough. However, Stoopid People are not ignorant. Ignorance is simply a lack of knowledge—everyone’s ignorant about something; some are ignorant about a lot of something. Stoopid People arenâ€...