Stop Using Noncompete Agreements

Topics: Employment Law, Heather Bussing, HRExaminer, Leadership, Policies, by Heather Bussing
Employers like to make people sign noncompete agreements because they think they are protecting trade secrets. But it’s rare that any of those things are truly secret. Here are five ways noncompete agreements can backfire against employers.
 

HRExaminer v6.27

Legal Editor Heather Bussing looks at a case at Ford where they fired an employee for violating their sexual orientation policy while the employee claimed religious discrimination for being fired. Read, Religious Expression and Discrimination.

Susan LaMotte discusses the cost of HR policies that rely on leadership assumptions that are out of touch. Read, Susan LaMotte’s article, Don’t Assume: Find Out What It’s Really Like.

Legal Editor Heather Bussing explains the legal aspects of managing depressed employees in, Work and Depression.

On Episode 28 of HR Tech Weekly: Optimal Technical Stack Report KeyInterval Research, Job openings hit a new 14-year high, KPMG acquires Towers Watson’s Human Resource Service, Network Monkey, and Walmart uses crowdsourcing analytics competition platform Kaggle.

John Sumser wraps up this week with his discussion on HR Examiner Radio with the CEO of the Marcus Buckingham Company, Jason Averbook.


 

Religious Expression and Discrimination

Legal Editor Heather Bussing looks at an LGBT case at Ford where they fired an employee for violating their sexual orientation policy while the employee claims religious discrimination for being fired.
 

Don’t Assume: Find Out What It’s Really Like.

Susan LaMotte discusses the cost of HR policies that rely on leadership assumptions that are out of touch or based on outdated employment experience.
 

Work and Depression

Depression accounts for an estimated $83 billion per year in lost productivity. Legal Editor Heather Bussing explains the legal aspects of managing depressed employees.
 

HRExaminer v6.26

Talent Acquisition and Management is most often an expression of local culture, customs, and, manners. Read, Five Links: Recruiting is Regional (and so is HR).

Both legal and religious interests in Marriage are important and should be respected legally and socially. Read Heather Bussing’s article, Religion v. Law.

Guest author Ivan Casanova from Jibe discusses what it takes to reach the next-gen candidate in, Need To Fill That Job? Show Candidates a Good Time.

On Episode 27 of HR Tech Weekly: SHRM 2015 Annual Conference Las Vegas, CareerBuilder1, Willis Group Holdings merged with Towers Watson, and the Same-Sex Marriage Decision.

John Sumser wraps up our weekly edition with, Five Links: Future of Work.


 

Religion v. Law

Marriage is one of those places where law and religion cross, and both have strong interests.
 

HRExaminer v6.25

Bill Kutik has returned from retirement with a new video program called Firing Line. John Sumser jots down his first impressions in our feature article, Firing Line with Bill Kutik.

We need more love in the workplace. Yep, you read that right. Read Jason Lauritsen’s article, More Love, Less Fear.

On Episode 26 of HR Tech Weekly: Who owns your overtime, personal time at work, HR trends in Quantified Self movement, and Irving’s OneSource Virtual raises $150M investment.

On Episode 101 of HRExaminer Radio John Sumser speaks with Kieran Snyder, Textio Co-Founder and CEO.

John Sumser wraps up our weekly edition with, Five Links: Some Real Technology.


 

More Love, Less Fear

“We need more love in the workplace. I know somewhere an HR manager’s head just exploded.” -Jason Lauritsen
 

HRExaminer v6.24

100th Episode HRExaminer Radio: A conversation between Terry Starr and John Sumser back in 2012 helped trigger John’s venture into online broadcasting. Fast forward to 2015 and The HRExaminer Radio Hour is celebrating the 100th Episode this week with Terry as John’s guest. Listen to Terry Starr in Episode 100 of HRExaminer Radio.

Paul Hebert discusses a special type of employee that could save your company from disaster, read Sentinel Employees. Do you have them? Do you use them?.

William Tincup talks about real life, the kind you never read about on social media. Read William’s article, Of Addiction and Depression.

On Episode 25 of HR Tech Weekly: The Employee Engagement Awards, Uber drivers classified as employees, The evolution of Contingent Workforces, Courses on Demand Foundation Impact Grant recipient, and GlassDoor employee-choice awards for CEO’s.

John Sumser wraps up our weekly edition with, Five Links: New Quantified Employee Tools.