Inevitably, your organization will have to conduct a workplace investigation. It may be because an employee has alleged discrimination, or perhaps someone has stolen...
Employees who file discrimination complaints can claim retaliation if they can show that their employers took actions that would dissuade reasonable employees from...
Do you have to treat transgendered job applicants differently? Which
box, if any, do you check on the application—male or female? And what
special laws must you...
Question: How many cigarette breaks are too many cigarette breaks in an
eight-hour workday? I think we need a smoke break policy of some kind,
if only to keep...
A federal judge in Alabama has dismissed most of the sexual harassment and retaliation charges filed by two former employees against The Home Depot Inc. David Corbitt...
Question: “I am an admin for a major corporation (group of 100 people, 75 %
women). In addition, I am the facilities coordinator for two floors.
My problem...
Do you require some employees to live on the premises so they can be on call to provide emergency or other services? If so, you can structure the compensation system to...
Question: “One of our employees is going through a divorce. Although she says she
is doing OK, lately she is making more and more mistakes on tasks that
she used...
Lawsuits sometimes seem to come out of nowhere. While you can reduce your risk through prevention, you can’t eliminate it entirely. That’s why you need a...
Nothing disrupts the workplace like a rude and nasty employee—especially one who thinks she’s smarter than everybody else and constantly tries to show it by...
Terminating an employee is probably the hardest thing an HR professional has to do—and the most legally dangerous. To handle terminations well, you need to keep...
Don’t let fear of litigation allow one or two supersensitive employees to squash reasonable criticism and destroy workplace morale. Take, for example, an employee...
Question: “I work for a nonprofit organization where only a few staff members
occasionally bring in a treat for the monthly staff meeting. We all
bring our own...
Ohio employers can fire chronically absent or tardy employees without worrying that unemployment compensation will be the reward for missing work. That’s true as...
