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For many jobs, the option to work from home might be just the accommodation an employee needs. However, that’s not automatic.

Use these 15 questions to analyze the thoroughness of your employee handbook:

Some supervisors try to skirt the whole issue of firing someone by making the employee’s time at work so unpleasant that they will choose to resign. That’s an unwise strategy.

Maintaining complete, clear records is one of HR’s most critical responsibilities.

Always double-check and consider the circumstances before making a final discipline or termination decision based on an employee’s failure to call. off.

A year after Students for Fair Admissions, some employers are taking new approaches, finding novel ways to diversify their workforces without resorting to specific hiring and promotion goals.

Employers have the legal right to control employees’ activities on the job. That includes putting a stop to political activism or political solicitations at work.

We used a GPS device on a driver this past week and found out that he parks his truck sometimes for as long as three hours and clocks this time as working time. Can we discipline him for this, letting him know that we are aware that he is stealing time?

Two federal courts have now weighed in on the FTC's noncompete ban, reaching opposite conclusions and setting up what could be a lengthy legal fight.

How far can you go in monitoring employees? Legal lines divide what is and is not permitted.