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Every year, tens of thousands of employment discrimination lawsuits are filed across the United States, resulting in a lot of hefty fines from the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

April is National Records and Information Management Month! National Records and Information Management Month was started in 2002 to promote good record keeping and information management and to emphasize the importance of maintaining organized records.

Laws aimed at reforming employment continue to crop up across the country. Most recently, New Mexico passed a statewide Ban the Box measure, while North Carolina became the latest state to ban questions about applicants’ salary history from the hiring process.

A higher rate of workers tested positive for drugs last year than at any time since 2004. That’s a big reason why New York City has taken the unprecedented step of banning employers from testing job applicants for marijuana, the most commonly detected substance in drug tests.

Sneaky job seekers, urine trouble now! Using fake pee to skirt drug testing has become such an epidemic nationwide that many states are working to ban sales of the substance. It’s a development sure to make a splash in the labor market!

Legislative efforts continue at the federal level to prevent employers from asking job seekers questions about their salary history and make pay equal between men and women.

Do your employees have reserved parking spots at your workplace? If so, you could owe taxes on those parking spaces! In other news, more and more businesses are giving ex-offenders a chance in the wake of low unemployment, and salary history bans for job seekers reached the Midwest last week.

A new federal overtime rule could become the law of the land next year. Could reclassifying your employees save your business money? We’ve got the answers in today’s Weekend Roundup.

Seemingly every day, social media becomes a bigger piece of the hiring process. Social media platforms such as LinkedIn provide large, professional networks that can help job seekers find the perfect position and help employers narrow down their recruiting search.

It’s common for hiring managers to be a little nervous about how a job interview will go. Just as a job candidate wants to present him- or herself in the best possible light, a good hiring manager always wants to put the company’s best foot forward in an interview, too.

The conventional wisdom can only get you so far in the hiring process. Past a certain point, it can actually get in your way. Here’s why: Conventional wisdom often contains a lot of mythology, and these myths or mistaken beliefs then begin to drive our decision making.

Employers can’t be too careful these days. Workplace accidents and criminality can expose businesses to serious liabilities that can shut a company down virtually overnight. Often, all it takes is one rogue employee to ruin a business’ reputation.