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...
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...
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...
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,...
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”...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, retirement, workplace
April 27, 2018 • By Dennis Beaver
“I am writing you on behalf of several of us who are long-time employees at a family-owned furniture and appliance store in a small Southern California community. We are worried about the future, about this business surviving....