An employee quit because they were bored and couldn’t transfer to another role based on a company’s policy. Is this a good policy to keep?

There’s always someone in the office counting the number of vacation days each person takes, which makes extra paid vacation days a tricky thing to offer.

The National Labor Relations Act protects your right to discuss working conditions with your coworkers, and that includes salaries.

“Can full-time, permanent employees do freelance work for our California-based company if that work falls outside their job description?”

The Fair Labor Standards Act has strict rules regarding paying nonexempt employees, and California is even stricter; one of the key components is that employees must be paid for every hour they work

“Evil HR Lady” Suzanne Lucas explains what you should say — and what you shouldn’t — when a prospective employer calls with a reference check.

After an employee lodged an OSHA complaint against a company, his manager found a journal in the employee’s office that would make any reasonable person cringe in the era of #MeToo. Comstock’s columnist Suzanne Lucas explains why it’s still a bad idea to terminate the employee in this case.

A company is considering switching a full-time worker into a contractor after the employee requested to work from home. Can the company legally do this?

How and when to give feedback to rejected candidates. 

How to cut labor cost during tough times.