by Dennis Beaver | discrimination, employment, prison
March 7, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver Care to guess the population of Houston, Texas? Here’s a hint: The same number of people are in U.S. prisons, about 2.2 million, and that is a world record. That’s right, our country has more people in prison than any other, according...
by Dennis Beaver | employment
May 22, 2010 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver For readers who are on medication for high blood pressure – especially anyone who has ever worked in a restaurant – it might be a good idea to have extra tablets handy before reading today’s...
by Dennis Beaver | business, consumer, employment, identification
June 7, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver Readers who enjoy classic American films will recognize the headline of this article as a line from “The Treasure of the Sierra Madre” (1948), starring Humphrey Bogart. A similar remark was used in “Blazing...
by Dennis Beaver | background checks, employment
February 28, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver “Over my 25 years of family practice in California’s Central Valley, I’ve always trusted my intuition when making a hiring decision. With two front-office employees retiring, we will soon start searching for replacements. “In this...
by Dennis Beaver | career, employment, parenting
October 22, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
Recently, for one of my articles, I interviewed Gorick Ng, Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right. His book is a wonderfully useful guide for recent graduates...
by Dennis Beaver | employees, employment, human resources, identity theft, lawyers, OSHA
Several contract medical professionals reached out to say that one of their bosses first tried to force them to take unpaid OSHA courses and then suggested someone else could take the tests on their behalf, which would be a federal crime. What’s an employee to...
