John Mattone

JUNE 24, 2024

Jeff Bezos, for example, has disrupted the retail industry with his long-term view and innovative strategies at Amazon. Jeff Bezos Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, transformed a simple online bookstore into the largest online retailer in the world. She was known for her sharp legal mind and her dedication to justice.

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Work Life

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Since then, Feinglos has been hosting talks and trainings about grief for all kinds of employers, in which she also touches on grieving other kinds of losses—including divorce. “[It’s The University of Michigan, for example, will be providing divorce-related legal support through its legal insurance plan as of 2025.)

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Attendance Bot

MARCH 10, 2025

It also improves employee training by linking specific learning exercises to the development of essential skills. Retail Industry: Optimizing Workforce Scheduling A major retail company leveraged people data analytics to predict peak shopping hours and adjust staffing accordingly. The result?

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Workplace Insight

AUGUST 23, 2023

To give a sense of that, in order to complete the certification, our directors legally embedded their commitment to purpose beyond profit in the company articles. This isn’t simply a nice to have, marketing exercise. That’s an incredibly valuable support network showcasing best practice and providing opportunities to work together.

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Launch Work Places

JANUARY 10, 2024

Create a plan for employee skill development and training. Legal and Compliance ChatGPT Business Prompts: Develop a compliance checklist for an e-commerce site. Create a guide for employee legal rights and responsibilities. Go deeper: Input data and ask ChatGPT to summarize and “fine print” or other legal jargon you come across.

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Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 11, 2022

" Corporate Social Responsibility is not a legal mandate in every country. Additionally, they can engage in job and training opportunities. Moreover, the global furniture retailer works to reduce energy consumption. But, it is seen as a social responsibility for organizations. They derive energy from alternative sources.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 3, 2022

A reader writes: I own a small (game store) retail business and the store manager I hired to run my business sucks. Everyone he has hired we’ve had to fire because they’ve been terrible and he isn’t training them properly. The store sales have been terrible. He even sucks at hiring new employees.

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Ruby

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It’s not just the retail industry that endures extraordinary pressure and stress around this time of year. If you run, say, a legal practice or a plumbing business, these sorts of conversations might not seem unusual. The crowding and pushing make me wince. Instead of taking this holiday season a day at a time, you can take it off.

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Ruby

DECEMBER 6, 2021

It’s not just the retail industry that endures extraordinary pressure and stress around this time of year. If you run, say, a legal practice or a plumbing business, these sorts of conversations might not seem unusual. The crowding and pushing make me wince. Instead of taking this holiday season a day at a time, you can take it off.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 25, 2022

About a month ago, I had to BEG my manager to train me on something she had assigned me a year ago and, due to lack of training, kept messing up. Plus a note that I’d done that item in the past until management realized they legally couldn’t have a Kitten Herder I do it. Go find somewhere where you can thrive.

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Ruby

JULY 3, 2020

Nalini Prasad: Yeah, awesome, so I’m the chief strategy officer, whatever that fun title means, at BluShark Digital, and so we are a digital marketing company that focuses on legal and law firms. We are able to create websites for other industries, but our bread and butter is legal, because we actually were born out of a law firm ourselves.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 10, 2014

I hired and trained the my team during the implementation of a new regional office. Is it legal to be forced to wear shoes that are hurting you at work? I work retail and am assigned shoes to wear. Is it legal to be forced to wear shoes that are painful and visibly painful? Can I be forced to wear painful shoes to work?

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Ask a Manager

MAY 30, 2022

Also, you could also talk to HR or your DEI person/people if you have them, and suggest they better train managers around inclusivity in activities like this. They said that legally they can’t tell her she can’t use it because that would be discrimination. My dilemma is this. And they refused to speak with her about the issue.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 4, 2015

To reach the legal standard for sexual harassment, the behavior must be “severe or pervasive.” I took a job four months ago as a bookkeeper for a small local retail store owned by a family friend. He promised me a fair hourly wage after a 30-day training period. He was serious and angry. I am male, as is he.

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 13, 2021

I run a small retail business and while I was out this afternoon, someone came in and scammed one of my employees into giving him $300 in cash from the register. But take this as impetus to train all your staff on spotting scams and handling similar situations that could come up in the future. My employee fell for a scam.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 28, 2021

In that case, it might help to talk to colleagues about how they handle angry callers, get advice from your manager, do some role-plays, maybe take a training or two. When a company overpays an employee, they’re legally entitled to get that money back. And who knows, maybe those things would be useful to you.

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AUGUST 18, 2015

For example, one of my staff members asked me to train her on using Microsoft Excel. My daughter works for a chain retail clothing store. By the way, it actually is legal for them to prohibit employees from having second jobs. Everything I’ve learned about Excel I taught myself, plus I needed to know it for my position.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 22, 2019

A good manager would train you and give you enough guidance that she’d trust you to send emails on your own, and if she found that you weren’t sending competent emails, that would be a sign that either she hadn’t trained you well enough or you weren’t right for the job. The same is true for oversight in general, aside from emails.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 10, 2022

(I’m used to small screens, in my regular job so my main input on the laptop was,”I don’t want a big laptop, I want one I can plop in my bag and even work on in the train and bus if needed.” Legally, though, it’s a different question.

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MAY 10, 2016

I’ve been working at a small retail business (nine employees) for nearly two years. It is in very poor taste and would like to know the best way to go about complaining or if there are any legal stances she could take. As for what to do, though, there aren’t really legal options here. Worst of luck in your job search.”.

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OCTOBER 3, 2017

I took notes on some of her procedures on a legal pad during training, and yesterday she went through the notes while she was covering the desk. She then introduced me to her service dog, who was very poorly trained and would not leave me alone the whole rest of our meeting. My husband works in retail. Is this legal?

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 3, 2019

If you’d be willing to do the work if you were compensated appropriately, say this: “I was willing to help out a bit for free, but if you want me to continue doing graphic design work, my rates for that are higher than what I earn for retail work here. If you’d like me to work up a pricing proposal, I can.”.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 14, 2016

I want to apply for a part-time retail job as a buyer at a local consignment shop. I plan to start working the part-time retail job on the weekends, then transition to more hours over the summer. I plan to start working the part-time retail job on the weekends, then transition to more hours over the summer. conversations. (If

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MAY 31, 2020

He works for a major retail company in the warehouse, so they really do not care. I haven’t seen many people get married in my department except a former supervisor who the company made change her email, and all her documentation to match her new legal name when she hyphenated it, and I remember all the hassle she went though.

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Ask a Manager

JUNE 13, 2016

I’d probably go to HR rather than the search chair, simply because HR tends to be trained to understand why this would be a huge problem if it’s true. I work part-time in customer service for a mid-size retailer. Obviously they have a legal right to do whatever they want, but how do I address this on job applications going forward?

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Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 30, 2019

I wasn’t able to attend the training for employees about how we’re using this assessment, but the powerpoint from the training mentions including your strengths in your email signature. Maybe people in retail or restaurant work as well. A few students are also doing this.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 5, 2016

” That said, yes, they can choose to be unreasonable and short-sighted and require this, unless you’re able to tie your absence into some legally protected benefit, such as FMLA, other medical accommodation, or religious accommodation. How can proceed so that this doesn’t jeopardize my job?”

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JANUARY 26, 2022

We’ve seen incredible results across a variety of sectors and industries – everything from IT to construction, retail to customer service, and more. Are your staff and recruiters properly trained in a way to accommodate people with disabilities and committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workforce for your company?

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FEBRUARY 3, 2022

There are a lot of legal restrictions on how employers can use a person’s criminal record in hiring decisions. I’m a recent college grad and I’ve been working retail in my college town since last summer, applying to a lot of other jobs with no luck. Should I back out of this job offer? Running into a fired coworker.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 12, 2022

I don’t see why you should have to clean the agency car just because it was your client who soiled it, and it’s likely that it’s not the best use of your time or skills when you presumably have other clients you need to deal with and don’t have the training or equipment for handling hazardous waste. Are these types of questions legal to ask?

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NOVEMBER 4, 2020

I recently landed a job with a marketing/sales office, which I took because they offered to train and promote me to HR assistant after a probationary period in their entry-level rep position. ” (They also don’t offer benefits because offices are intentionally kept too small to be legally required to provide health insurance.).

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JULY 15, 2020

My boss gives us pop quizzes on our cross-training. Cersei wants us to cross-train in each other’s areas, which is great! But Cersei’s method of ensuring we get cross-trained is a little wonky, in my experience. Is this a normal way to go about cross-training? It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Several years ago I was working in a retail job that involved services for customers (a jewelry counter that also offered watch battery replacement and band changes/resizing). His reason is because HR might try to blow me off or not do all they can do unless I let them know from the outset that I know what I am legally entitled to.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2018

You do sometimes see group interviews, but they tend to be at the sort of companies I described above, or for retail jobs, or at organizations that really, really don’t know how to hire. It’s not particularly cool of them to give you such late notice so that you can plan your vacation time usage accordingly, but it’s legal.

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MARCH 13, 2018

We are not legally married. She had a job at the time but it was a retail job she didn’t like much. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. I got my partner a job at my company, we broke up, and she won’t leave. My partner of eight years and I just split up. We are both female. I have worked there for more than 10 years.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

If you weren’t a health care worker, your employer would not be legally obligated to pay you for that time — even though ethically you’re 100% in the right to expect it, for all the reasons you stated (the exposure was part of your job and you followed their instructions). I work in a service department in a retail store.

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Work Life

DECEMBER 24, 2024

This shift is already underway: A McKinsey report notes that AI could automate up to 70% of routine tasks in sectors like finance, retail, and customer service. AI in Hiring Will Go Under A Legal Microscope Hiring decisions made by machines will come under fire this year. Proactive measures are non-negotiable.

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