If you've ever been busted by a boss and felt the discipline didn't match your deed, you might take some comfort from a new Merit Systems Protection Board report. It urges agencies to consider ...

Officials said the Douglas factors, 12 criteria federal agencies have used for 45 years to devise and justify discipline for misconduct, are too restrictive and “mechanistic.” Practitioners disagree.

Documents released by the St. Lucie County Fire District after employee discipline appear to show history of unprofessional ...

From the political campaigns of 2024 through the recent tragedy of the assassination of Charlie Kirk, public discourse on social media has been active, and often provocative, divisive and offensive.

After the National Labor Relations Board's recent decision in Lion Elastomers LLC II, employers must now carefully navigate two "fundamentally different" classes of employee misconduct: 1) "misconduct ...

Poorly handled investigations should be treated as threat to public health and damage not just staff involved, report says ...

In South African labour law, fairness is the golden thread that runs through all disciplinary processes. A disciplinary hearing must be procedurally and substantively fair, with both employer and ...