Articles by Richard Alaniz

Almost all employers on a regular basis receive calls from a prospective employer requesting information about a former employee.

Proper planning for an eventual OSHA inspection can mean the difference between a clean bill of health or multiple citations and their attendant fines.

You're fired! Those are words that no employee ever wants to hear and that employers hope they rarely have to utter.

Many employers still recall opening letters from the Social Security Administration about mismatched Social Security numbers on wage reports.

There is no federal or state law, rule, or regulation that mandates job descriptions.

There are individuals in every workplace in the United States who are paid a salary and considered exempt from pay for overtime after 40 hours in a work week.

The old axiom that "words can never harm me" may have been true at some point, but that is certainly no longer the case in this age of #MeToo.

In the first seven months of this year, there have been over 5,000 I-9 audits of U.S. workplaces.

Millennials, generally acknowledged to be those born between 1981 and 1999, have become the largest age group in today’s workforce.

The use of profanity in everyday conversation has become pervasive, especially with Generation Xers and Millennials.