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Renting theme park as company perk can come at high cost

by Dennis Beaver | business, consumer, employment, workplace

March 10, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver As the business world is gradually returning to normal, rewarding employees with incentives is a priority for many companies. Research has shown that when kept happy, whether through recognition, free trips or experiential rewards,...

Resume fraud poses major risk to employers (and employment agencies are part of the problem)

by Dennis Beaver | background checks, employment

January 11, 2014 • By Dennis Beaver Last week we told you about David, an attorney who asked an employment agency to find a part-time receptionist. Shortly thereafter, a job counselor phoned, stating that she had “the perfect candidate,” and emailed her resume. Two...

Sell the business, remain in California or move out of state?

by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, politics, workplace

September 3, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver 
 “Our family owns a small furniture manufacturing company in Southern California that is very much a happy, living dinosaur. We are a mini United Nations, with about 30 employees, most who have been here for decades, and the...

Shame on California’s unemployment insurance department

by Dennis Beaver | employment, judges, workplace

June 9, 2017 • By Dennis Beaver  If you’ve been denied unemployment insurance benefits because your employer claimed that you were guilty of “misconduct,” then today’s story will be of special interest, for that’s what happened to “Carmen,” the 32-year-old daughter of...

Sign this petition or risk losing your job

by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership, politics

September 23, 2022 • By Dennis Beaver Fifty more migrants arrived outside Vice President Kamala Harris’s residence in Washington, D.C., on Saturday, days after two buses carrying asylum seekers arrived at her Naval Observatory home from Texas earlier this week,...

Some of the worst things you can do to your career

by Dennis Beaver | employment, leadership

September 10, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver 
 “Mr. Beaver, my husband, ‘Jamie’ thinks that he is the victim of racial discrimination at work and is speaking to lawyers about a possible lawsuit. He has not been promoted and feels somewhat shunned, “Angela’s”...
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