Aligning training and career development plans with the strategic goals of the organization is a win-win for all concerned. A career development path provides employees with an ongoing mechanism to enhance their skills and knowledge, which leads to mastering their jobs and enhancing professional development. Creating a career development path increases employee engagement (a critical driver of business success) and has a direct impact on the entire Practice by improving morale, job/career satisfaction, motivation, retention, productivity, and responsiveness in meeting the Practice's short as well as long term business objectives. And has a positive impact on the Practice's bottom line.

On May 30, 2012 the General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board ("NLRB" or "the Board") issued its third Memorandum summarizing the most recent cases before the Board. The memo was concerned exclusively with over broad employer social media policies.

The report signals that policies will be considered overly broad if the terms and restrictions contained within can be deemed vague enough to allow an employee to infer, in any way, that they restrict his or her rights to comment on terms or conditions of employment and/or to act concertedly in doing so, as protected under the National Labor Relations Act ("NLRA").

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Courtesy of Nukk-Freeman & Cerra, P.C.