Recent Blog Posts
Accommodation of Pregnant Employees in the Workplace
The number of pregnancy-related discrimination lawsuits filed across the country has skyrocketed in recent years. According to one review of pregnancy-based workplace discrimination lawsuits between 1986 and 2003, as many as 40% of all gender-based workplace bias lawsuits involved pregnant women. According to the data, since 2000 alone, complaints about workplace- discrimination filed by… Read More »
What Your Employee Handbook Should Contain
Your employee handbook should speak clearly about the mission of the company, your duties and obligations as an employer as well as all employee rights and obligations. The handbook can be a very strong communication tool to be used between the employer and employees, but far too many employers treat this as a superficial… Read More »
Interview Questions You May Want to Avoid
An interview is the most important step in the hiring of a new employee. While a resume would have given you a fair idea about the applicant’s qualifications and experience, it is during the interview process that you get to determine the personality of the applicant. There are many questions that you can ask… Read More »
Employee Orientation Dos and Don’ts
The first day on a new job for a new employee can be nerve-racking. It doesn’t help when employers don’t make the effort to make an employee feel comfortable, and fail have a special orientation program to ease the employee’s transition into his new job. In fact, effective employers will tell you that an… Read More »
Frequent, Effective Performance Evaluations Are Key to Avoiding Litigation
Very often, in a wrongful termination lawsuit, plaintiffs claim that they were never given any chance to improve their performance, and were never provided any feedback about their performance before they were fired. Frequent performance evaluations are not just a way to get employees to perform better, but also a way for employers to… Read More »
How to Deal with Problem Employees Effectively
Every office has at least one of these. Employees who are troublesome, and argumentative, and contribute to a hostile environment, need dealing with quickly. Neglecting such employees simply results in an increasingly toxic work environment, which ultimately results in litigation against your company. For instance, failure to step in and correct a boorish employee,… Read More »
Can I Fire an Employee for This?
The reasons for termination of an employee can vary across workplaces, and employers are allowed to have different standards by which they evaluate worker performance and integrity. Some employee offenses are so serious that a firing is almost the norm. For instance, if there are performance-related issues that an employee is struggling with, a… Read More »
