HR Professional Virtues
As human resources professionals there is a significant range of skills, talents, attributes and virtues needed to navigate the myriad workplace challenges. On the subject of virtues required for human resources professionals, the following article appeared in the Employment & [...]
Do Your Managers Know at Least 101 Things?
101 Things Everyone Should Know About Tribal Employment After discrimination and harassment, our most popular training session is 101 Things Everyone Should Know About Tribal Employment and the materials for that session are now a published book, a power point [...]
NNAHRA Plus Fall Training
NNAHRA I have the privilege of working with the dedicated NNAHRA team this week in preparation for the NNAHRA Conference starting September 28. Part of that preparation has included working with the lawyers who will bring you the annual legal [...]
101 Things Everyone Needs to Know About Tribal Employment
101 Things is my most popular training sessions. The written materials are now updated with significantly more detail and analysis. I wanted to make sure that the session provided the 101 things promised by the title. After counting, the session [...]
NNAHRA Conference
The NNAHRA Conference is a little more than a month away and I look forward to being both a speaker and a participant at a fantastic virtual conference. The conference agenda includes a really smart mix of COVID related practical [...]
FMLA FORMS CHANGE
Whether the Family & Medical Leave Act applies to tribes is an open question with an argument that it applies and an argument it does not apply. Many tribal employers provide job protected leave which is similar to or the [...]
Drafting Tribal Employment Laws & Handbooks was recently published and is available at Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Xlibris and wherever you purchase books.
Drafting Tribal Employment Laws & Handbooks is a practical guide to drafting comprehensive tribal employment laws and the policies included in tribal government, casino and enterprise handbooks. The book explains why this is important and illustrates how to get these documents [...]
Gratitude & Opportunities
A thank you, a book, investigations, hearings and more articles. First and foremost, I continue to be exceedingly grateful to my colleagues at tribal governments and enterprises for the opportunity to serve during this difficult time. Even though we are [...]
Employer Liability Issues During COVID
Outside of Indian Country, an early May 2020 count revealed dozens of COVID-19 employment related lawsuits in federal courts.