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NLRB Confirms Legality of Most At-Will Employment Disclaimers
The NLRB will examine at-will disclaimers on a case-by-case basis, and I do not expect we will see the Board take the unreasonable position that all at-will disclaimers are unlawful.
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All In Favor of Improving Maternity Leave Policies?
At a time when businesses are expecting more from their employees than ever before, I feel a little reciprocity is in order. Companies could simply go beyond the pregnancy discrimination laws and FMLA leave policies and give their employees longer and compensated maternity leave.
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NLRB Offers Further Guidance on Confidential Workplace Investigations
I believe that the NLRB fails to understand the importance of confidentiality in workplace investigations, and further fails to understand the realities of how workplace investigations work.
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Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: Getting Workers the Help They Need
… Northeast brought workplace preparedness back into the forefront. Employment experts agree that companies should have policies and procedures in place to deal with the psychological effects of such traumatic events.In the aftermath of a natural disaster …
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Deploy the Girl Scout Cookie Offensive to Ward Off Labor Unions
Consider whether permitting your employees to sell cookies or engage in other innocent solicitations is worth the risk that if a union organization drive rears its head, you will be left powerless to engage one of your key weapons—the no-solicitation policy.
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New FMLA Forms and Posters Coming Next Week
The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued new FMLA regulations. The substance of these new regulations, which go into place March 8, relate to the FMLA's military leave provisions and airline flight crew personnel.
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Is an Employer Obligated to Provide Light Duty to an Employee Returning From FMLA Leave?
Before denying light duty to an employee returning from FMLA leave, you must consider whether the ADA requires the light duty as a reasonable accommodation. If you have light duty available, and do not have to create a light duty position to accommodate the employee, the ADA will likely require the
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Rolling Out Dough May Motivate Employees to Drop Pounds, Study Shows
By providing financial incentives, employers may be able to motivate employees to stick with weight-loss programs, according to recent a Mayo Clinic study. Twice as many individuals were able to achieve a total weight-loss goal when offered a monetary reward than individuals who were offered ...
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Do Employees Have Any Privacy Rights in Personal Emails Sent From Corporate Accounts?
According to a recent court case, employees enjoy no expectation of privacy when sending personal emails from corporate accounts, provided that you have the right language in your email policy.
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Of Storks and Honesty—Avoid Shifting Reasons When Defending an Employment Decision
It's trite to say honesty is the best policy. But, when defending an employment case, honesty and consistency are essential. And, if you can't be honest because the honest reason is illegal, then maybe you should consider biting the bullet and settling.
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Does Social Media Change the Meaning of Solicitation?
By defining “solicitation” to include passive social media connections and activities, you are at least putting yourself into a position to have a court consider shutting down an ex-employee for maintaining online relationships.
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How Long is Too Long for an Unpaid Medical Leave of Absence? Not Two Weeks and a Day.
Think long and hard before you deny a request for unpaid time off for an employee's medical issue, and, when in doubt, call your employment counsel for a sanity check.
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Reaching the Learning Resistant
We should be considering how to make sure that all of our learning methods address conceptual resistance if we want our investment in education and talent to yield the best results, which is to prevent, detect and correct problems before they lead to workplace disasters.
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Do We Really Need to Still Care About Retention?
Given the high unemployment rate, how high a priority is retention for organizations these days?
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Examining Marissa Mayer's Out-of-Office Message to Yahoo Employees
Ed Frauenheim is on assignment. The business case for telecommuting was established more than two decades ago. No doubt Yahoo chief Marissa Mayer knows that. I'm guessing that in the days and weeks leading up to her recent call to ban telecommuting at the search engine giant she considered ...
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What Do You Do If You Doubt an Employee's Disability?
I hope that I don't have to lecture any of my readers about what is wrong about denying accommodations and firing disabled employees. What rights do you have, however, if you doubt the legitimacy of an employee's claimed disability?
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Obsessing (Compulsively) Over Reasonable Accommodations
You need to have a dialogue with an employee about reasonable accommodations. Without opening the channels of communication, you will never know what is feasible. More importantly, without the dialogue, you probably have not satisfied your obligations under the ADA.
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Who's the 'Knucklehead'? Employee Loses Retaliation Claim After Slurring Co-Worker
Exercising control to dole out legitimate discipline is not retaliation or discrimination. It's sound management of your people. Provided the punishment fits the crime, and provided the punishment is consistent with your past practices, you can discipline without fear of retribution.
