Most employee handbooks say — in multiple places — that employment is at-will, meaning that the employer or the employee has the right to end the relationship at any time for any reason. Handbooks ...

Editor’s Note: This is the first installment of an ongoing investigation into Ontario’s public-school system. A 200-pound Ontario middle schooler was getting ready to pummel his classmate when a group ...

I am human, and I make mistakes. Despite considering myself a conscientious employee, I have accidentally left the office lights on when I went home, and I have occasionally arrived late for work in ...

In most non-tenure based settings, managers use “progressive discipline” to address many employee issues. Progressive discipline is the practice of establishing a series of steps of escalating ...

Under proposed rules, Los Angeles police officers who fail to explain why they escalate mundane stops into criminal investigations will be forced to undergo training and then face increasingly severe ...

Where it appears appropriate and effective, the University will utilize a system of progressive discipline to address the remedy of situations where an employee demonstrates unacceptable conduct ...

The Find: Rather than going through the lengthy process of progressive discipline with an underachieving employee, better to simply fire those not meeting expectations straight away, argues ones HR ...

After years of criticism about harsh student discipline for infractions as nebulous as “defiance” — much of which fell disproportionately on minority students — California school districts are ...

Labor lawyer Lucas Middlebrook was on today's episode of The Wrestling Inc. Daily. Middlebrook has represented many different labor groups from airline workers to professional soccer referees and even ...

Even when the standards for performance and behavior on the job are clearly communicated, most managers find themselves dealing with a problem employee at some point in their career. Dismissal might ...