If you've been to Mayo Clinic's Saint Marys Campus over the past year, you may have seen a hospital resource officer walking through the halls.
This program, a collaboration between Mayo Clinic and the Rochester Police Department, started with three officers, but two more were added this year to provide a law enforcement presence at all times.
Your workplace might have a few more familiar faces as the continued Great Resignation wave gives rise to the boomerang employee — a former worker who returns to the company after some time away.
Boomerang employment is a growing trend in general thanks to technology that helps people stay in contact over time, says Brian Swider, a management professor at the University of Florida and an expert on boomerang employees.
Most toxic work environments are unacceptable long before they rise to the level of illegality, say Debra S. Katz, a founding partner at Katz, Marshall & Banks, and Alexandria Smith, a legal fellow at the firm.
An organization’s “demanding” standards can no longer serve as a justification for inappropriate workplace behaviors, they explain.
A Columbia employment law attorney said Americans should be prepared to start hearing more about fights brewing between states and the federal government over vaccine mandates.
“It’s the beginning,” Paul Porter of Cromer Babb Porter & Hicks said.
At this point, 19 states, including South Carolina, have filed four lawsuits against the federal government over a vaccine requirement for all federal contractors, part of a multi-faceted mandate announced by President Joe Biden in September.