Today, I turn the keyboard over to my colleague Victor Jones for a special guest post. Victor practices in Kelly Hart’s New Orleans’s office. He has some thoughts on what employers might learn from the fallout over Tom Brady’s failure to preserve the cell phone he used during and immediately after last year’s AFC Championship
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Adrian Peterson Situation Spotlights Dilemma Employers Face Frequently.
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Posted in Human Resources, News & Commentary
Our family has a fantasy football league and my 13 year old son Benjamin drafted Adrian Peterson in the pre-season draft. Earlier this week when the Minnesota Vikings activated Peterson to play this weekend, Benjamin was faced with a decision many employers have to make; whether to allow an employee who has been charged, but not…
NFL Could Take a Lesson from Human Resources in Conducting Investigations
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Posted in Human Resources, News & Commentary
Yesterday TMZ released shocking video of former Baltimore Ravens running back Ray Rice knocking his then-fiancée out in a casino elevator. Roger Goodell, the NFL Commissioner had, following the league’s investigation, given Rice a two-game suspension for the incident of domestic violence. Following the release of the in-elevator footage, Goodell suspended Rice indefinitely from the league. You…