Who says Paul is the only one with access to all the meaty HR workplace and trends data . . . Just in time for the holidays I submit the following bit of office trend information that many of you can file in the “tell us something we don’t already know” folder.
Across the nation, companies are canceling annual end-of-the-year [...]

The United States Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reports that employment discrimination claims based on pregnancy have increased significantly from 1992 to 2007. Pregnancy claims increased sixty-five percent during the last fifteen years and hit a record high in 2007.
Interestingly, a large part of the increase came from filings by women of color:

Black women pregnancy claims [...]

A recent article in the New York Law Journal outlined the following ten commandments of employee performance evaluations:
1. Don’t let the time slip, if it is an annual review, do it on an annual basis
2. Tell the truth
3. Remember the audience and be accurate but professional…now is not the time to “Donald Trump” someone
4. Do [...]

Not exactly the type of information to give one the warm fuzzies right before Thanksgiving but still it brings one to be appreciative and give thanks for having a good boss. 
Employees who say their managers are passive, inconsiderate and uncommunicative were more likely to suffer from heart attacks, according to a Swedish study that looked at [...]

A Verizon employee alleged that he was denied a promotion because of age discrimination. As evidence, he noted that during an interview the hiring manager yawned demonstrating that the decision had already been made to give the position to a younger person.
The company contended that the employee had been repeatedly denied promotions because others were [...]