Arbitration agreements help avoid negative publicity *

USA - April 23 2013
Business owners who include arbitration agreements in employee contracts can head off potentially damaging publicity should an employee's tenure end…

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Upgrading through free agency: seasonal hires in a down economy *

USA - December 3 2012
Seasonal hiring is a critical element of retailers to successfully maximize sales and profits over the holidays.

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Using conviction records as a screening tool *

USA - June 1 2012
The retail industry is beset by shrink both from internal and external sources.

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A tale of two stores *

USA - March 1 2012
Most small box retailers treat the manager of each individual location as an exempt employee under the "managerial exemption" of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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"I'll get you for this" - avoiding charges of workers' comp retaliation *

USA - December 1 2011
In October, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit upheld a jury's decision that a package delivery company had retaliated against one of its workers for filing a workers' compensation claim.

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