Accommodation Requests: Mistakes Employers Keep Making

California employers have discussed disability accommodation for decades, yet these claims remain easy to create accidentally—not because employers usually refuse accommodation outright, but because they skip steps, move too quickly, ask the wrong questions, rely too...

Privilege Isn’t Automatic: What HR Needs to Know Before Hitting “Send”

Human resources professionals are often the first people to recognize when an ordinary workplace issue is becoming a legal one. An employee mentions retaliation. A leave request gets complicated. A termination suddenly feels risky. A wage-and-hour issue surfaces. Or a...

Work matters. But people matter more.

Labor Day Is About People We spend a lot of time talking about work as though it is separate from the rest of life. It isn’t. People come to work carrying everything with them: grief, fear, divorce, sick parents, sick children, financial stress, new babies, bad news,...

When Life Falls Apart in the Middle of the Workweek

Last week, my daughter lost her horse, Weston, without any notice. I have rewritten that sentence about 10 times because there really isn’t a way to capture what happened. Weston wasn’t just a horse E. rode. He was her partner. They had been together for six years....
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