Data Meets Employee: Just-In-Time Scheduling
Data can be really useful for making the most of a company’s time and resources. It can lead to safer work flows, better regulation compliance, understanding improvement, minimizing risk, and measuring actual progress toward goals. With labor often an employer’s highest expense, data addressing employee habits and peak labor needs can help sew a strong thread of efficiency in day to day operations. With all the benefits that can come from modern data collection, data can also be viewed as over-intrusive, pressurizing, complicating, and lackin…
Tenant Protections During an Eviction in Idaho
Image by James Thompson on Flickr CC BY 2.0. In Idaho, eviction proceedings are called “unlawful detainer actions.” Idaho tenants are generally unable to withhold rent for any reason. If a tenant does fall behind on rent payments or violates other lease provisions, there are certain protections afforded under the law. Here are several things to keep in mind: 1. Expedited proceedings are only available for claims of non-payment of rent, drug activity, or tenancy at sufferance. I.C. 6-310 allows for a court date and decision within 12 days of fi…
The Will to Prepare
I recently had the opportunity to hear Larry Echo Hawk speak. Mr. Echo Hawk is a former Idaho Attorney General and served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs under the Obama administration from 2009 to 2012. Mr. Echo Hawk shared an experience he had while playing football for Brigham Young University. Mr. Echo Hawk’s defensive coach was LaVell Edwards who recently passed away . Coach Edwards taught Mr. Echo Hawk the following idea: It is not the will to win that matters, rather the will to prepare. It was obvious …
Establishing Justice in Both Fertile and Infertile Soil
The Preamble to The Constitution of the United States reads as follows: We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America. The first step taken by the Framers in seeking a more perfect Union was to “ establish Justice .” Justice with a capital J. As noted by Andrew R. Sh…
Stalking Protections in Idaho
Being on the receiving end of unwanted intimidation, surveillance, or communication can affect every moment of the victim’s life. But how does the everyday understanding of stalking differ from federal and state legal definitions? How is stalking combated in rural communities? What protections exist for stalking victims? Federal Stalking Definition Given the federal government’s constitutional authority, 8 U.S.C. § 2261A focuses on interstate acts that have “the intent to kill, injure, harass, intimidate, or place under surveillance with in…
