This is under the more outrageous category. The State of Illinois paid someone with two rapid convictions to babysit.  That’s right.  Yep, you heard it right.  The state paid a convicted rapist with a series of other crimes in his history to babysit.  Probably, given his predilections, he would have babysat for free. Seriously,chalk it up to [...]

As is the case with large scale employers, those with small businesses are also invulnerable to security threats.  These thefts include the theft of valuable databases and proprietary information.  In a time when a down economy keeps margins slim and business operations pretty intense, this is the last thing employers need. Threats plaguing small business [...]

California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law Assembly Bill 22, which restricts how employers may conduct employment credit checks on their job applicants.  A similar bill was put before former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger who vetoed it.   Now Brown has signed off his approval.   Proponents of the law have claimed that the economic [...]

Workplace violence is has a tremendous impact.  Not only are people killed or injured or forced to suffer psychological abuse,  simply put it is bad press for the employer.  There are liability factors and various lawsuits that run into the hundred of millions of dollars, annually. The Center for Disease Control has declared workplace violence a national epidemic.   I [...]