by Dennis Beaver | employment, government
May 1, 2020 • By Dennis Beaver In late March, my column titled, “Covid 19 — What Lawyers are Saying” featured two Bakersfield Employment Law attorneys, Dan Klingenberger and Jay Rosenlieb, who answered a number of questions about employee rights and obligations in...
by Dennis Beaver | discrimination, employment
April 25, 2015 • By Dennis Beaver Karen, a Hanford reader, phoned our office in tears, explaining that she had just finished an interview for a receptionist position and the owner “told me that I am horribly fat, have no idea what clothing is proper for an interview,...
by Dennis Beaver | business, employment, leadership, workplace
October 20, 2023 • By Dennis Beaver “Shirley,” from Atlanta, wrote: “Your recent articles about becoming CEO in a family-owned business and how not to treat your sales staff if elevated to a management position are especially relevant to our situation, and I could use...
by Dennis Beaver | employees, employment, financial, management
October 4, 2024 • By Dennis Beaver If you were to ask just about any business owner if their employees should receive equal pay for equal work or could be paid differently, based on gender, race, color, religion, and national origin, I’m certain that most would reply,...
by Dennis Beaver | contracts, employment
March 29, 2008 (Original publish date) • By Dennis Beaver “I can’t tell you where I live or which television station I am currently employed at, because if I do it will probably result in my termination. After majoring in Radio and TV Communications, I got...
by Dennis Beaver | auto repair, bias, business, career, employment, politics
November 5, 2021 • By Dennis Beaver
“Bruce” is CEO of a Chicago IT company with over 60 employees, where “over the summer of 2021, a very bad feeling began to take hold,” he told me in a lengthy phone call. “Suddenly a great lack of trust became apparent. Some of...
