Written by Michael Cormier Like Pandora’s Box, the greatest trouble sometimes leaps out of the smallest places. Take cybercrime, for instance. It seems even the most vital, highly protected information is no longer safe. This has been proven time and again by cyber thieves, who steal thousands of credit card numbers, and even hack into […]
By Michael Cormier It’s a brand new year, and we all know what that means: time for retrospection and promises (to ourselves, anyway) of adjustment. Being in that mind frame, this might be a good time to look at a troubling trend in the world of recruitment and hiring. For lack of a better word, […]
By Michael Cormier “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics” – Mark Twain A new phrase is sweeping the country in the debate over hiring people with a criminal past: “Ban the box.” Ban the box refers to the question on job applications asking if the candidate has […]
By Michael Cormier, Attorney at Law Would you reject a job candidate who has filed for bankruptcy? Would it color your opinion of that candidate’s reliability? Sense of obligation? Morals? If you answered “Yes”, then I suggest you read on to the end of this article. The list of five people you would have rejected […]
(Which Is Why You Shouldn’t Believe Everything You Read) By Michael Cormier “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising” – Mark Twain When Mr. Twain gave us that bit of wisdom, he could have been talking about the job interview process. More to the point of this article, […]
By Michael Cormier, Attorney-At-Law What your employees do outside the workplace may seem like none of your business, and in most cases it isn’t. But when a worker’s extracurricular activities affect his or her performance on the job, that’s a whole different ball game. This is especially true of substance abuse: Nothing can harm a […]
By Michael Cormier Attorney at Law As an employer, you know why potential employees should be screened with a thorough background check before hiring: other than their resume and what they told you during the interview, you really don’t know this person. So, to round out your information, you hire a company to do […]
Hiring employees has never been easy. It’s kind of like that box of chocolates Forrest Gump talked about: you can never be sure what you’re getting. Which is a very good reason for performing background checks on prospective employees before they become part of your company. Now, you may be thinking, “I’ll just hire on […]
Written by: Michael Cormier It’s a well-known fact that hiring the wrong person can be a costly mistake. Lost hiring time, lost training time, not to mention the cost of providing wages and benefits to an unproductive employee. But that’s just the proverbial tip of the iceberg. We’re talking about employer liability, of course – […]