January 2013

In This Issue:
Employment Law Note
Hiring in 2013? Key Talent Acquisition Trends to Watch
Five Ways to Make This Your Most Productive Year Ever!
Why Questions can be Your Most Powerful Employee Motivation Tool

Employment Law Note: Four More Years! Labor & Employment Law Scrutiny & Enforcement Will Grow
No "winds of change" swept over us during the November 2012 elections. To the contrary, the results in Washington, D.C. and Olympia reinforced current politics in our nation's capitol and our statehouse. By maintaining Democrat control in the governor's mansion and the legislature, and by re-electing President Barack Obama, our electorate has endorsed the current power dynamics. The impact on the workplace—labor and employment law matters—may not just mean "more of the same." Instead, employers will have to gird themselves for "much more of the same."

Organized labor clearly helped deliver these election outcomes. Similarly, special interest groups that favor more intrusive employment rules and requirements mobilized their voter base to affect election outcomes. For the next four years at the federal and state level, the legislative and enforcement powers of government will seek to deliver for its "constituencies" in the workplace arena. The proof is the signs and signals coming out regularly since the election.

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Hiring in 2013? Key Talent Acquisition Trends to Watch
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Five Ways to Make This Your Most Productive Year Ever!

Tools
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Why questions can be your most powerful employee motivation tool.

Quote of the Month
"One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: To rise above the little things."
- John Burroughs