Employee Relations 

Workplace Flex Heats Up This Summer
Employers are loosening up schedules, adding time off and cutting Fridays short to accommodate employees' plans for summer fun.

Measure Grievances to Minimize Costs 
To measure and determine the real cost of employee grievances, organizations should gather and store notes and records about employee complaints in a central location, an expert says.

Trust Is the Foundation of Business 
When trust breaks down in organizations it can impact employee turnover, communication, collaboration, risk taking and creativity—among other things—all of which can harm the bottom line, an expert says.

Engagement Affected by Processes, Not People
When organizations ask how they can get employees to be more engaged, they are asking the wrong question, an expert says, because that question implies that employees are the ones causing low engagement levels.

Engagement Erodes Around Globe 
There is "a significant, across-the-board increase" in the number of workers seriously considering leaving their employer, according to a global survey released in April 2012.

Inviting the Masses to Rate Employee Performance 
Survey: Improvement Needed in Employee Recognition 
Odors and Fragrances Not Welcome at Work 

New Jersey Woman Fired for Being “Too Hot”
A New Jersey woman says that she was dismissed from a temporary job at a New York lingerie warehouse because her male employers felt she was too busty and dressed too provocatively for the workplace.

New Survey: Majority of Employees Dissatisfied
Right Management, a subsidiary of the giant staffing firm ManpowerGroup, just released a new snapshot survey that underlines the dissatisfaction among American workers.

Vacation? No Thanks, Boss
Most workers don't use all their vacation days. About 57 percent of working Americans had unused vacation time at the end of 2011, and most of them left an average of 11 days on the table.

Should employees work on premises without supervision?

What should an employer consider when developing a policy on maternity and/or paternity leave?