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Everyone agrees that reference checks are important, but actually doing them is difficult. Employers want to get information about candidates, but when other employers want the same information from them, they don’t want to give it. That’s frustrating, says Employment Screening Resources (ESR).

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One-Third of Résumés Lie—Reference Check, Anyone?

In today’s Advisor, we’ve got the results of the healthcare survey in which 1,400 readers recently participated. The most hopeful news?

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Survey Says: Some Successfully Reducing Healthcare Costs

In yesterday’s Advisor, we got expert tips on developing a disaster plan. Today, there’s more on some specific disaster-planning issues and an introduction to a policy program that will help you with your disaster policy and all your key HR policies.

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Who Calls 911? and Other Tricky Disaster Questions

Many of the uninitiated do think compensation’s simple, but those same people keep paying out on million-dollar suits. In yesterday’s Advisor, we featured three million-dollar wage and hour lawsuits. Today, two more suits and an introduction to a unique source of compensation solutions that might just help you avoid a million-dollar suit.

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Wage and Hour Simple? I Don’t Think So

Wage and hour cases often seem piddling—what are a few hours of overtime here and there? But add in other class members (hundreds, thousands?), years (2 or 3?), and damages, and there’s quite a tidy sum you might owe.

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A Wage/Hour Story Told in Million-Dollar Lawsuits

Our recent column featuring a question about amnesty for illegal immigrants generated responses from many readers, most of whom voted (or railed) against amnesty.

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Readers Say, ‘No Amnesty!’ (Mostly)

Yesterday’s Advisor offered 10 Rules for Appraisals that will make them stand up in court. (Go here for the 10 Rules.) Today, we feature a checklist to help you review your appraisal system, and we talk about the real first step of any appraisal, a well-written job description.

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Are Your Performance Appraisals Setting You Up for a Lawsuit?

Yesterday’s Advisor explored courts’ new attitude toward training.

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Your Trainers Making Any of These Mistakes?

By now everyone knows that training is a necessary defense for many lawsuits. However, EEOC and the courts are now demanding more than just the simple act of training, says Attorney Philippe Weiss. They are interested in the quality of the training—and the trainer—as well.

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Quality of Training—and Trainer—Will Be Questioned in Court

After we published our “Gun in the Lobby” story, we printed an apology to those who were upset by the story’s headline. But then even more readers wrote to complain about that.

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‘Gun in the Lobby’ Sequel—Get Over Yourself!