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HR Stories Podcast - A Lesson in Every Story! — 190 episodes
Ep171: Doing Discipline Right
Ep170: Engagement and Management - how to get your team back
Ep169: What Makes Work Better - Part 2
Ep168: What Makes Work Better - Part 1
Ep167: You Can Be Kind And... Part 2
Ep166: You Can Be Kind And...
Ep165: Should you fire your HR department?
Ep164: Disparate Impact Changes You Can't Miss
Ep163: Fire Them Out of Kindness
Ep162: Why Raising Minimum Wage Creates Upward Salary Pressure
Ep161: Clarity. Capabilities. Capacity. Change Your Workplaces Today.
Ep160: You Can Pump... If We're Staffed
Ep159: Friction-Causing Jolts Making Your Employees Quit
Ep158: Succession - It doesn't need to be TV-worthy drama
Ep157: The Changing Landscape of Internships
Ep156: Discrimination By Customer Request
Ep155: Let Your Employees Gossip (Kind Of)
Ep154: The End of Women's Retreats? Not Exactly.
Ep153: Can you do everything right and still get sued?
Ep152: AI in HR - While the Courts Decide, What You Need to Think About
Ep150: HR in the News - Shifts in the job market and what it really means
Ep149: Q&A - Managing Emotional Responses
Ep148: Planning for Employment Law Changes in 2026 - Pt 2
Ep147: Planning for Employment Law Changes in 2026 - Pt 1
Ep146: The Best of 2025
Ep145: Hot Topics - Rolling Layoffs and reduced trust. Are you ready for 2026?
Ep144: Moldy Misery - The Importance of Tracking Your Efforts
Ep143: Q&A - Do I have to let ICE in?
Ep142: A Six Million Dollar Mistake
Ep141: Q&A - Tattoos and the Risks of Case-by-Case Policies
Ep140: Work 32 hours a week whenever works best for you!
Ep139: Sunday Off - The Cost of Revoking a Religious Accommodation
Ep138: Hot Topics - Workday is all in AI and Starbucks tells corporate to take their coffee to-go
Ep137: Q&A - I need OUT of HR!
Ep136: Listener Q&A - Should We Pay Them? Is Hiring On Vibes Okay?
Ep135: You'll never be a manager if you keep taking medical leave.
Ep134: Hot Topics - Perks, Racial Discrimination, & Job Hugging
Ep133: Listener Q&A - Changes to HR and State Laws
Ep132: Off The Clock Behavior & What You Can Do About It
Summer School: Are you wearing shorter skirts yet?
Summer School: I want to go to bed with you - Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
Ep131: Chuck Goes to SHRM!
Summer School: The PUMP Act
Summer School: Pregnancy in the Workplace Makes its Mark on the Supreme Court
Summer School: The Supreme Court Case That Defined Sexual Harassment – Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson
Summer School: Revisiting Supreme Court Cases That Changed HR - Griggs v Duke Power
Ep130: Listener Q&A - Bad Attitudes, Walking Off The Job, & Quid Pro Quo
Ep129: Listener Q&A - What's the law anymore?
Ep128: Recent and Upcoming Policy Changes You Need to Know
Ep127: QA - Military Leave, Annoying Managers, and Skipped Lunches
Ep126: Part 2 What Keeps You Up At Night in HR
Ep125: Part 1 What Keeps You Up At Night - Tackling the HR Issues of Today
From the Vault - Preventable Death in the Workplace
Ep124: Heels, Health, and HR Headaches - The Dress Code Lawsuit Every Employer Should Know
Ep123: Q&A - Smelly Lunch and Consistent Callouts
Ep122: Burnout, Stress & Leadership – What HR Needs to Hear Right Now
Ep121: Q&A - Retaliation against HR, demotion compensation, and mixed employment
Ep120: Updates from the EEOC - Lawful DEI in the Trump Era
Ep119: Q&A - The Nitty Gritty of Overtime
Ep118: Pay Discrimination & Retaliation - How to Avoid Costly Mistakes
Ep117: Q&A - Medical Disclosures & Unauthorized Charges
Ep116: HR on Trial - The Importance of Good Record Keeping
Ep115: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: When HR gets messy and complicated
Ep114: Beating the Challenges of Being a CHRO
Ep113: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Life & Death - Acknowledging Key Life Moments
Ep112: Perceived Bias and Promotion Troubles - Keeping Hiring Legal & Clear
EP111: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Working without paperwork, Layoff Difficulty, and Passive Aggression
Ep110: Remote Work Legal Complexity - State Laws vs Company Location
Ep109: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Employee Statuses and Preparing for the Next Role
Ep108: Trump's HR Impacts - What to Expect From the Next Administration
Ep107: The LIVE Edition! How These Checklists Can Improve Your 2025 & Beyond
Ep106: When Audits Come Knocking - Start 2025 On The Right Foot
Ep105: 2024 Top 10 Q&A!
Ep104: From the Holiday Vault - Revisiting the Poor Working Conditions of the North Pole
Ep103: Grandma Got Fired, Not Retired - How Trader Joe's learned that Niceness can Backfire
Ep102: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: After Hours Tasks and Getting Fired on Leave
Ep101: Questions and Lessons from the News - Topics You'll Give a Hoot About
Ep100: The Big 100 - HR Stories Podcast Celebrates 100 Episodes
Ep99: Q&A - The Employee Edition: The questions your employees may be afraid to ask
Ep98: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Would you like cheese with that?
Ep97: The Future Of Work: What Are We Missing?
Ep96: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Avoiding a bad hire and restriction avoidant workers
Ep95: He Was In Hot Water... Literally - Workmans' Comp Need To Know
Ep94: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Getting Directors to Take a Step Back and Operations to Align
Ep93: Make HR Easy - The Ultimate Guide to HR
Ep92: A Smile or a Consequence - Trader Joe's Problematic Stance on Positivity
Ep91: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: When you want to fire a customer
Ep90: From the Vault - "I’m Going to Run You Over with this Forklift" - An Intense Tale of Sexual Harassment
Ep89: Nose Pickers and Scab Pickers - It Gets Weird In HR
Ep88: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Working for Competitors and Social Media Problems
Ep87: Interviews - Getting Them Right
Ep86: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: FMLA, Merger Timelines, and Layoff Worries
Ep85: You Can't Make Me Take This Training!
Ep84: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Will all this be declassified? Or is this confidential?
Ep83: Celebrating the Civil Rights Act - There are Still Lessons to Learn
Ep82: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Out-of-work behavior, Termination Blues, and PTO Swaps
Ep81: Gender Discrimination - How to Ensure an Inclusive Workspace and Avoid a Lawsuit
Ep80: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Job Descriptions, Balancing Accommodation with Production, and Celebrations
Ep79: Preventable Death in the Workplace
Ep78: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: The Dos and Don'ts of Exempt vs Non-exempt
Ep77: The Hidden Dangers of Social Media Retaliation - What Employers Need to Know
Ep76: From the Vault - Breaking Legal Barriers: The Part-Time Secretary Who Rewrote Harassment Laws
Ep75: It Spreads Faster Than Covid! - Watch out for this contagion in your office.
Ep74: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: They're threatening to sue for wrongful termination
Ep73: The Headline Stories - You've Read About It. Let's Talk About it.
Ep72: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: The Trolly Car Predicament for Saving Jobs
Ep71: Testing the limits: when Honest Belief meets Workplace Reality.
Ep70: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Got a policy for your policies?
Ep69: A Pig’s Head - I am going to make him an offer he can’t refuse
Ep68: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: Vulgar Vehicles, Restricted Workloads, PTO Negotiations, and Poor Performers
Ep67: What You Missed - Policy and Law Updates You Can't Afford to Miss
Ep66: Exposed and Ignored: The Battle for Mother’s Rights Under the Golden Arches
Ep65: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! A Verbal Assault and a Disability Defense
Ep64: We Don't Know What We Don't Know
Ep63: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions: I'm tired of firing people. Help!
Ep62: Remote Work: The Failure to Return
Ep61: Boundaries Beyond Borders: Navigating PTO, Relocations, and Rumors in Solo Departments
Ep60: Breaking Legal Barriers: The Part-Time Secretary Who Rewrote Harassment Laws
Ep59: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! My Ex-Wife Is Claiming I Forced Her Out of the Company
Ep58: Failure to Follow Direction Leads to an Employee Death
Ep57: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! How to Make Them Swipe Right on Your Job Posting
Ep57: 2023's Top 10 Listener Questions
Ep56: Rudolph and Kringle Inc.- Unwrapping HR Lessons at the North Pole
Ep55: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! She Was Recording Her Coworkers!
Ep54: No Age Limitations: Old Workers Rebel against Employer Bias
Ep53: Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! Mergers, Holidays, and Status Changes
Something Illegal Brewing at Starbucks
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! Prioritize, Performance Evaluations, and PTO
What Employees Want
From the Vault: Accommodation Fails - All he wanted was to be treated equally
Age and Generation Discrimination
HR Q&A - We Answer Listener Questions! Requests, Referrals, and I-9 Forms
It Ain't Funny Creating a Hostile Work Environment
HR Q&A - We Answer Listener Questions! Grumbling employees, PIPs, and Heavy Burdens
"You don't get to tell me how to do my F_ _ _ ING job!" said the boss. An NLRA Section 7 and 8 Story.
HR Q&A - We Answer Listener Questions! Personal, Documentation, and Policy Hygiene
We are all Employees (Part 2) - Stories about Employee Rights that Managers and HR Pros Need to Remember
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! Establishing Policies
We are all Employees (Part 1) - Stories about Employee Rights that Managers and HR Pros Need to Remember
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! How far do we investigate?
Unveiling Shadows: A Tale of Third-Party Sexual Harassment
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! FMLA Notes and Accommodations, Potential Age Discrimination, Leave of Absence Procedures
From the Vault: The Story of the Lost Employee - Onboarding and Orientation
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! Paid Undue Money, Exit and Stay Interviews, and Fire Drills
The Story of the Night Workers: Paying all Employees Right
Listener Q&A - We Answer Your Questions! Refusing to Work with opposite sex, Bringing someone out of their shell, Switching an employee to non-exempt
"I’m Going to Run You Over with this Forklift" - An Intense Tale of Sexual Harassment
Listener Q&A...We Answer Your Questions! - Remote Workers, FMLA, and Age Discrimination, Oh My!
The HR Stories Podcast Trailer
Spreading Sickness: The New Work Pandemic
Pregnancy Discrimination Supreme Court Ruling - Geduldig vs Aiello - the ORIGINAL Pregnancy Supreme Court Case That Changed HR
Did you get that signature? The High cost of NOT getting your I-9s right.
The AI in HR
Overcoming the HR Time Suck
Constructive Discharge: Constructing a Potential Lawsuit for your Company
Serving up Discipline and Potential Discrimination at Whole Foods
Payroll Pitfalls: The 5 Sneaky Traps You Need to Watch Out For
Violence in the Night: How to Protect Your Employees
When Joking Around at Work is No Laughing Matter
Why did they leave you? The Story of Employee Turnover
Supreme Court weighs-in on FLSA Overtime for HCE's
Pregnancy and New Laws Coming to the Workplace
Griggs vs Duke Power Supreme Court Ruling - Employment Testing and Discrimination
HR Stories Vault Episode - Sexual Harassment and Beth the Lifeguard - Faragher vs The City of Boca Raton
The Employee Edition...being Aware and Noticing Discrimination
Workplace Romances. Is Love in the Air at your Workplace?
A Hairy Situation | The CROWN Act
The ADA - Don't Assume Because It Can Make an Ass Out of U and Me
Major Mess Ups With Minors Working
The Word on Word-of-Mouth Recruiting
Workplace Violence...."There's nothing we can do"
The Checklists Edition - Getting HR Right and Avoiding Costly Mistakes
Price Check at Kroger on New Uniforms Logo and Religious Accommodations
Harassment: A Dish Best Never Served
Nurses - employees or not? A story about Classifications.
Sleeping on the Job...not a bedtime story.
One Phone call cost the company 7.2 Million Dollars
But Boss...I Need to go to the Bathroom - A Reasonable Accommodation Story
Child Labor Law HR stories and Mistakes Companies Make
"I want to go to bed with you", said her boss. - Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson...the original Sexual Harassment Supreme Court case
"Are you wearing shorter skirts yet”? - Ellerth vs Burlington Industries
Sexual Harassment and Beth the Lifeguard - Faragher vs The City of Boca Raton
Temper Tantrum Tom Cruise - Profanity and yelling at your employees in the workplace
Dirty Words Matter: Profanity and Hostile Work Environment
Baby Bump and Dump: Pregnancy Discrimination.
Accommodation Tales - All He Wanted Was to be Treated Equally
The Tale of the Beard and the Applicant - EEOC Religious Accommodation
The Story of the Lost Employee - Onboarding and Orientation
The Case of the Accidental Wage Theft - Wage and Hour Law
The Story of the Gridlock Buster - Job Postings and the EEOC