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Fired for Suing an Ex-Employer? Court Rejects Public Policy Claim
Employers should treat all employees complaining about anything in the workplace as ticking time bombs, as if their complaints are protected by some law or another. If a court later rejects a public policy claim, all the better.
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Patriots Cutting Diabetic Player Raises Serious ADA Issues
It is an understatement to characterize this termination—undertaken without any apparent consideration of whether the team could accommodate the diabetes—as high risk. It would not surprise me in the least if, given the high profile nature of this employment decision, the EEOC takes up Kyle Love's
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How Do We Successfully Succession Plan and Help Employees Prepare for Retirement?
How do we help retirement-age workers in lower-level jobs make the transition, even as we begin planning succession for higher-level jobs? We have some workers who are several years past our voluntary retirement age and want to make sure the company is prepared for their departure. For other ...
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How Much Time Should We Spend on Our Lean-Management Processes?
We have implemented lean-management and it has worked well for us. It is strongly supported and maintained. We are a print company of 40 people. How much time per week should we spend keeping tabs on our lean-management processes?
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Use of Updated Form I-9s Now Mandatory for All New Workers
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigrations Services recently updated its Form I-9s. Their use became mandatory May 7, 2013, and failure to use them will result in a $1,000 fine.
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How Do We Know Our Engagement Efforts Are Paying Off?
How will I know when our employee engagement begins producing results? Our goal is to focus on engagement and ultimately gain more business. We're interested in an average for satisfactory engagement.
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The Legal and Ethical Issues of the Class Action “Pick Off”
There are significant strategic decisions that companies and their attorneys must make when defending class action lawsuits. Pre-certification communications with potential class members carry a big upside, albeit with the potential of significant risk.
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You'd Think We'd All Know the Dangers of 'Reply All' by Now
Is there any more helpless feeling in today's business world than sending an email, and then immediately realizing that you made a mistake?
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With Social Media, All of Your Employees Are Brand Ambassadors
Whether you like it or not, social media has turned each of your employees into a brand ambassador. Can you afford to have your brand sullied by the offensive or racists rants of one of your employees?
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Where There’s Smoke, There’s No Hire
Health care providers, which see their employees as 'role models and advisers to patients,' are among the organizations requiring tobacco testing for new hires.
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Taking Issue With the Term “Wage Theft”
Yes, we have a wage-and-hour problem in this country. Wage-and-hour non-compliance, however, is a sin of omission, not a sin of commission. Employers aren't intentionally stealing; they just don't know any better.
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How Do We Build Loyalty in New Employees?
How do we launch a mentoring program that helps new employees build a strong
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Beware Bans on Pay Discussions Among Employees
Does your handbook have a policy that prohibits employees from discussing how much you pay them? If so, get rid of it.
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Do You Have a Workplace Emergency Action Plan?
Yesterday's tragedy in Boston has left me speechless. Boston seems to have been prepared, and at least by early accounts, the city's early responders helped save many from suffering a worse fate. Employers can learn an important lesson from these ashes and tears—the importance of being prepared.
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New Bill Seeks to Extend Comp Time to Private Employers
The Fair Labor Standards Act already provides similar rights to public sector employers. It's about time that the law is changed to provide the same rights to those in the private sector.
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A Look at Abercrombie and Fitch's 'Look' Policies
If you hope to claim an undue hardship defense to a religious accommodation claim based on your company's image, you need to have the hard data to back your claim. Hypothetical hardships likely will not carry the day.
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28 Days Later? Passage of Time May Allow Employers to Recertify FMLA Claims
Managing FMLA leave, and particularly managing intermittent FMLA leave, is one of the most challenging tasks for employers. What qualifies as “significantly changed circumstances” will vary from case to case. Do not mistake this case as carte blanche to demand a recertification after every ...
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There Is No Such Thing as a 'License to Harass'
Employees need to understand that some participation in sex-based workplace hijinks does not create a license to harass in perpetuity. No one can tell where someone draws his or her personal line of inappropriateness, and trying to make that decision for someone else can only result in trouble ...
